Your First Hunting Rifle?

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   Hey guys, what was your first hunting rifle? Big Game hunting that is, squirrels not included. My first was a Ruger 96/44 prototype that i used for about 2 years. LOL i got started using that thing 3 years ago. My first deer hunting season was a lot of fun. Even though i havent bagged a deer yet, I just like being out in the woods carrying a firearm. It makes me think about what it must have been like 200 years ago when people might have been hunting exactly where i was, going after the same quarry. I am just happy that I am fortunate enough to get to go hunting and to experience the bonding and the tradition involved in it. I feel bad for those poor stupid vegetarian (which is an old Injun word for Bad Hunter) anti hunter big city tree hugger that doesnt even know what the hell they are talking about and should be put in front of a firesquad or sent to South America so they can smoke some more pot and snort more cocaine. Why would they do this, doesn't it hurt the plants?
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NH_Hunter Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List .416 Rigby aka The Kid Joined: 13 June 2003 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 3508	Topic: Your First Hunting Rifle? Posted: 15 June 2003 at 15:27
	Hey guys, what was your first hunting rifle? Big Game hunting that is, squirrels not included. My first was a Ruger 96/44 prototype that i used for about 2 years. LOL i got started using that thing 3 years ago. My first deer hunting season was a lot of fun. Even though i havent bagged a deer yet, I just like being out in the woods carrying a firearm. It makes me think about what it must have been like 200 years ago when people might have been hunting exactly where i was, going after the same quarry. I am just happy that I am fortunate enough to get to go hunting and to experience the bonding and the tradition involved in it. I feel bad for those poor stupid vegetarian (which is an old Injun word for Bad Hunter) anti hunter big city tree hugger that doesnt even know what the hell they are talking about and should be put in front of a firesquad or sent to South America so they can smoke some more pot and snort more cocaine. Why would they do this, doesn't it hurt the plants? NH_Hunter

TasunkaWitko Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Administrator aka The Gipper Joined: 10 June 2003 Location: Chinook Montana Status: Offline Points: 14753	Posted: 15 June 2003 at 15:51
	my first "official" deer was shot either by me or my dad. i was using a ruger m77 in .22-250 and he was using a remington m700adl in .30-06. i was 12, and it was a whitetail spike buck. however, the next year i was shooting a savage m99 (don't know which version, maybe the "e?" in .308. if i remember correctly, and i could be wrong, it was shooting 55-grain accelerators. shot the bottom off the heart of a very nice muley doe and she died instantly. that was my second deer, but the first one that i knew FOR SURE that i had killed myself.
	TasunkaWitko - Chinook, Montana Helfen, Wehren, Heilen Die Wahrheit wird euch frei machen

Eagleye Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List .30/06 SpringField Joined: 10 June 2003 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 293	Posted: 15 June 2003 at 18:04
	My first hunting rifle was an 1893 Marlin in 30-30 Winchester chambering. Never shot anything but a couple of coyotes with it though. Next came a customized P17 30-06. It had an old Weaver KV scope on it. Shot my first Mule deer and my first Muley buck with that rifle. Fond memories those!! I can still relive the events surrounding those two hunts even though it was back in 1958. Regards, Eagleye.
	Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level & then beat you with experience!

North Logan Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List .416 Rigby aka The Legendary Lawman Joined: 10 June 2003 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 1728	Posted: 15 June 2003 at 18:18
	*Wow, Eagleye.... 1958 was when I was born!* My first hunting rifle was this one, a Remington 700 in .308: I first got it around 20 years ago. It was a standard BDL, then with the Monte Carlo style fancy checkered stock with the caps & white liners. Bought it used and it came with a Leupold M8-4x scope. Shot great as it was an ex-PD rifle. I got if from the dealer when the PD that had it traded it on a couple of 870 shotguns. I had it for many years, then sold it around 1998. Was able to get it back late last year in a trade with a good friend. Along the way, it lost the BDL stock for the above fancy one. It now is in ADL configuration with a blind magazine. Still shoots great. I added the new matte Bushnell Elite 3200 3-9x40mm scope after I got it back. *Regards, Marcus.*
	"COLTS & PONY CARS"...

waksupi Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List .416 Rigby aka Keeper of the Old Traditions Joined: 11 June 2003 Status: Offline Points: 2371	Posted: 16 June 2003 at 03:59
	Bedford County Pennsylvania rifle. Douglas barrel, curly maple stock, brass furniture, crappy Russ Hamm lock.

NH_Hunter Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List .416 Rigby aka The Kid Joined: 13 June 2003 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 3508	Posted: 16 June 2003 at 06:32
	My dad started out with a Winchester 94, but then he had to switch over to a double barrel shotgun with paper buck shot shotshells. He had to do this because his younger brother, my uncle, wanted to start hunting so he got the Winchester 94, which is the one i have now. NH_Hunter

tj3006 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List .416 Rigby AKA King Leui VX-III Joined: 16 June 2003 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 2373	Posted: 18 June 2003 at 01:34
	My first hunting rifle was a model 700 bdl in 30,06. With A Simmonds 44 MAG 3X9 .Hunted coastal blacktail deer with that for about 3 years and never got a buck. Sold it and boughta ruger 77 300 win with witch I killed my 1st buck. Been through lots of rifels since then and a few bucks too. Glad to say i don't have to sell a rifle to get a newone any more as long as I have patience ...tj3006
	Freedom 1st tj3006

dakotasin Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Administrator a TRUE brother-in-arms! Joined: 10 June 2003 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 4099	Posted: 18 June 2003 at 01:44
	savage 110 in 7 rem mag. first year i hunted, a hapless little buck crossed my path at around 20-25 paces. don't know who was more surprised, me or him. i raised the rifle, found the deer, and touched off a federal 150 grain hi-shok. the bullet entered, exited, and made the snow puff behind the deer...the deer just tipped over. the shot (somehow) disintegrated his heart. if the deer hadn't been so close, that would've been a clean miss for sure...i just got lucky w/ my first deer... i like to think i can do it on purpose now, though.
	Hunting is not a matter of life or death; it is much more important than that.

Pedestal Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List .22 LongRifle Joined: 16 June 2003 Status: Offline Points: 39	Posted: 18 June 2003 at 02:13
	Guess I'll date myself with this: My first was a beautiful milsurp, 1891 Argy, made by Ludwig-Lowe. Absoluty pristine! I paid $18 for it -earned the money mowing yards-at $1 a yard! Ammo was terribly expensive, so I didn't get to shoot it a lot. Norma was the only supplier at the time, $6.50 a box/20....

Tikkabuck Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Administrator Robert E. Lee IV Joined: 10 June 2003 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 8740	Posted: 18 June 2003 at 09:14
	Hey My frist was Grandpa's Savage 99 in .250 Savage,my frist of my very very own was a Sako Finnwolf in .308,boy I miss her.
	God,Mother,Country,and Hot Rods. Done with political crap.LOL

CB900F Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Administrator Honor, Integrity Joined: 10 June 2003 Location: Eritrea Status: Offline Points: 8857	Posted: 18 June 2003 at 14:37
	H'mmmm; My first hunting gun was a Winchester model 37, 20 guage. However, my first rifle was a Marlin model 57 levermatic that I bought myself in the early '60's. But it was a .22lr. My first centerfire hunting rifle was a Winchester pre-64 model 70 in .257 Roberts. Long gone now - sob. 900F
	Birth certificate!? He don't need no steenkink birth certificate!!

huntin1 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List .30/06 SpringField Joined: 16 June 2003 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 256	Posted: 18 June 2003 at 14:39
	The first deer I hunted with a rifle of any kind I used a T/C Hawken 50 cal that I made from a kit. The first high power rifle was a Thompson Center Aristocrat in 308. huntin1
	"Never corner something meaner than you"

308shtr Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List .22 LongRifle Joined: 11 June 2003 Status: Offline Points: 6	Posted: 18 June 2003 at 14:42
	My first rifle was a Rem 700 BDL in 270 which I bought when I was 19. My first whitetail was taken much earlier with a JC Higgins Bolt action 12 ga. 10 yards through the lungs. I don't know who was more scared, Me or the deer!
	NRA Life Member

Eagleye Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List .30/06 SpringField Joined: 10 June 2003 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 293	Posted: 18 June 2003 at 17:58
	North Logan; You're making me feel old!! LOL. I was born right at the end of WW II. I'll be hunting as long as these legs will carry me around, and right now, they are doing just fine. Over the years I've managed to pack on about 25 extra pounds, so I have been working at removing them. So far I have shed 11 [7 weeks], and I have noticed the difference already. Kinda wish I had hung onto that old P17, it was a great rifle for little investment. Since 1958, at least 30 rifles in 30-06 have passed through my hands, and I have 2 at present. Regards, Eagleye
	Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level & then beat you with experience!

macca Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List .416 Rigby AKA The Thunder From DownUnder Joined: 10 June 2003 Location: Australia Status: Offline Points: 1149	Posted: 18 June 2003 at 21:25
	Lee enfield 303.Full wood and metal butt plate.Dropped roos and pigs a treat.Had access to a win 30-30 at the same time very good in the scrub.Macca.
	don't let the bastards grind you down.

SST. Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List .22 LongRifle Joined: 12 June 2003 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 3	Posted: 20 June 2003 at 07:12
	I started deer hunting in the fall of '66. My first deer rifle was a loaner, a Marlin .44Mag carbine. Three years later I built my first custom rifle, a 7mmRemMag built on a Mauser action. I no longer have that rifle, but have its twin, a 300 WinMag built at the same time by my dad.
	Regards, Sam Taylor NRA Life Member NAHC Life Member SST's Rifle Room http://benchrest.com/sst

rollingb Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List .375 Holland & Holland Magnum Joined: 11 June 2003 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 665	Posted: 20 June 2003 at 07:31
	My first deer was shot with a Russian Moisan Nagate 7.62. I had'a choice frum either a British Enfields, or tha Russian rifles,....fer $10.00,... in tha "Coast-to-Coast" store. I was 16 years old when I walked into tha store and bot it,....didn't haf'ta fill out any goofy "forms" or nuthin. I bot tha 7.62 ammo fer $2.00 a box, and ground tha "tips" of'em fer hunt'n. Whatever happened ta tha "good old days"?????????

NH_Hunter Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List .416 Rigby aka The Kid Joined: 13 June 2003 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 3508	Posted: 20 June 2003 at 10:47
	Hey RollingB, is that the way you turn fmj into psp? NH_Hunter

rollingb Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List .375 Holland & Holland Magnum Joined: 11 June 2003 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 665	Posted: 20 June 2003 at 11:54
	NH_Hunter, It "sort'a" works out thet way. It shur ain't as good'a bullet as tha regular commercial spt, but, better'n a fmj on big game.

Low Wall Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List .22 LongRifle Joined: 20 June 2003 Status: Offline Points: 20	Posted: 21 June 2003 at 00:31
	A nameless 12 gauge single that beat the hell out of a 14 year old every time it was shot.