first deer?

What was youre first deer you ever got? Mine was a 2 point
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MuleyMadness
Took a doe on my first deer hunt. At age 14

Shot a 270
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AGCHAWK
My first deer was also a doe when I was 14.

First buck was a 2X3 when I was 16.
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Hunter292
My first deer was a 22" 3x3 at the age of 12.
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My first deer was actually a nice 4x4 about 25". I shot him on the last day of the season, halloween. He was the only buck I saw the whole year. Hit him with 2 of 3 shots at about 200 yds with my dads 243. I was so excited after he went down that my hands wouldn't stop shaking and I couldn't reload my gun. It took me a few years before I killed one bigger.
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Utahbowhunter
Welll lets see some pics of them!
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killerbee
mine was a velvet horned forky! it was the greatest feeling ever i was now officially a hunter!!!
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2x3 with the muzzle loader, when I was 13.
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mine was a 3X3 mule deer buck when i was 13
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kadejones2
that is one of my hunting goals is to shoot a buck in velvet
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my first deer was a 3x3 muley buck .
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WHITETAIL- BUTTON BUCK I was about 20 years old. Had been hunting since 16. Did'nt come from a family of hunters so I was self taught.
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Jeff
3x3 muley when I was 21
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dahlmer
18" 3x2 muley when I was 14.
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ishot4pointorbigger
:1 20" 2x3 Roman Nose Buck :1
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DeadI
Here is my first buck and probably my most memorable. It is a 2X1, shot from apox. 250 yards, with a winchester 270. It was my first year hunting (14 years old) and this was our horses first time packing a deer.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v80/Jaredhill/Hunting/IMG_0343.jpg" alt="" />
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MuleyMadness
Nice picture, thanks for sharing!
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DeadI
Hey Brett that is a pic of a pic, used the new camera to take the pictures pic. :thumb
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My first deer was a doe. My dad held the flashlight over my shoulder and I aimed for the eyes...Michigan cornfield in late September about 10PM. I was 12...we never hunted for horns when I was growing up back in the late 50's early 60's. Always shot and ate 2 or 3 does out of our confields and left the bucks for the sport hunters. Got serious about REAL deer hunting about 1980 and have shot 7 whitetail bucks ranging from spike to 4x3 plus my first muley 3x3 this year. Would not violate today...it was a different world back then!
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Here is my first deer. It was this year when I was 14.

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a61/oneshotkill/hunting%20and%20fishing%20pictures/IMG_0055.jpg" alt="" />
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mine was a 3X3 muley buck
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MuleyMadness
oneshotkill

Nice one, thanks for posting.
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quebechunter
mine was a young 3x3 (13")
that i got with archery equipment (was i proud :thumb )
took me 9 year to actually connect on a big game animal(black bear)
and i 've been successful every year ever since.
in fact we started hunting deer the first year(i was 14)
cause dad saw 2 or 3 deer tracks in our fields during summer LOL
took 3 year to see a live deer during hunting season (a doe with 2 fawns that came underneat my stand during a drive, but it was buck only)
i continued to give my best each and every year, even if some were questionning my sanity. and at last it paid off.
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DeadI
oneshotkill
That is a slug gun right. Were did you get the deer, you don't see tomany people use slug guns around here.

Nice pics thanks for sharing.
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My first was when I was 17. A nice older 5x6, 25.5 wide X 18 tall. Weighed in at 231 gutted. Kicked him out of a flock of sheep along with 3 others that were just as big or bigger. Took him at about 300 yards with a .303 British. (The next year I bought my '06). He knew where to hide. Unfortunately for him, a smaller buck gave away his hiding place.

He was also the ONLY one I have ever taken that was more than a 3x2. The smaller ones do taste better though.
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IDHunter
My first buck was a 2X2.

I didn't come from a hunting family either so I was by myself. In fact I have never harvested an animal with someone around.

The only directions I had on gutting my first deer was given to me before I went. I was told to cut from its hole to its chest and take out everything that doesn't look like you would eat it.(???) Needless to say it was a mess. I'm sure a pack of coyotes could have done a cleaner job. ](*,)
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Hiker
I shot my first deer, a whitetail button buck, when I was 14 or so.....but I killed my first Muley buck, a Forky back in 1983. I killed it with my 25-06 Remi. Model 700. I was so proud of that buck...I remember driving home in my 71 Plymouth Valiant, lime green...with it's head hanging out of the trunk, so all could rejoice with me. I have a photo of it but my wife cut it up for her scrap booking.
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BOHNTR
I arrowed my first buck when I was 12 years old.....with an ol' Pearson Longbow and cedar shafts. It was a 3x3 Columbian Blacktail from a mere distance of 18 yards! No photos......as we didn't carry cameras in the mid-70's. :)
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ridgetop
I shot a spike when I was 16 at 50 yards. It took 4 shots and only one bullet connected. A little buck fever involved. I'll try to find an old pic. of it. If anyone wants a good laugh. :))
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Hiker
Ridgetop, no laughing will be going on here but I'd like to see it.
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Mine was a forked horn Blacktail that I shot at and emptied my gun, the der never moved so my dad handed me his rifle two shots later I got him. I guess he was a gift from above, because he never moved until I hit him 7 shots later.


Scout

I will NEVER forget that day......
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mine was a blacktail spike that i shot with a 30-30 when I was 10
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ridgetop
Ok, here's a picture of my first buck.

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h71/ackc10/firstbuck.jpg" alt="" />
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Hiker
Wadeerslayer, ::wel to Muley madness! :)

Ridgetop, Thanks for posting a picture. :thumb
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MuleyMadness
wadeerslayer

I second that, WELCOME to MuleyMadness.

Ridge,

Nice photo, thanks for digging it up. I don't have a picture of my first one.

But do have a picture of one of my first "dinks", may have to dig it up also.
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My first buck was a 3x3, 28 1/2 inch outside spread, 19 inches tall. I was 16 years old at the time. We had left the house at 5 that morning because my dad had to work the nite before. We got to our hunting area at about 8:30 that morning. Instead of setting up camp, we took off to see what the day held in store for us. I would have never seen or even had a shot at this buck if it wasn't for my younger brother and his impatience. He just happened to get restless and took off down into this steep and rugged canyon that we had been watching. When our dad and myself got to where he was suppose to be sitting, all we found were his tracks going down. We were just starting to head down and try to cut my brother off when I took one last look across the canyon. What should I see but this wide rack :thumb lumbering up the side of mountain. I told my dad, BUCK!!!! BIG BUCK!!! I pointed the buck out to him which is about 250 yards across. I immediatly sat down and rested my elbows on my knees for a steady shot. Just as I settle my crosshairs on the buck, my dad shot :222 and scared the bejeebus outta me. I lost sight of the buck thru my scope. #-o I look back up to see him jump into the tree line. Just when I figured he was gone, he comes walking back out into the opening looking down towards my brother. :) I get my crosshairs back on the buck and just as I'm about to shoot, my dad shoots again :333 and lo and behold, I lose sight of the buck again ](*,) #-o . I look back across the canyon and the buck is still walking thru the opening. I quickly put the crosshair on the buck again. This time both my dad and I shot almost simultaneously and the buck drops and rolls down the mountain about 20-30 yards until it gets caught up in the pinion and juniper. Talk about major elation at that point. We look down the canyon and there is my brother standing there at the bottom of the canyon. We call him back up to where we are standing. While my brother starts up the canyon, my dad takes off across the canyon to the buck while I make sure it doesn't get up and also to direct him to where it fell. When my brother reaches me, I just have to re-tell him the story. My dad finally gets to the buck and calls us over. It seemed like the hike down and back up the canyon took forever. It was all worth it tho when I finally reached the buck. Talk about standing on top of the world that day. What was just as cool was the fact that when I got to the buck, my dad told me to hold out my hand. I did so and he laid the mushroomed slug in my hand. He went to where the buck had been standing and found the spot where the slug entered the ground. He dug around a bit and found it. I still have that slug to this day. I carry it w/me every time I hunt. It's my good luck charm.

Sorry, didnt mean to turn this into something this long. Hope I at least entertained you a little bit.

Droptine
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Hiker
Droptine, Great story and Welcome to Muleymadness!
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bigbuck92
Droptine great story. ill be looking forward to more of your storys
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Heres a picture of my first buck.
http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w314/_J0n_/n52306071_30322760_8378.jpg" alt="" />
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MuleyMadness
No fair JOn,

that dwarfs mine. :)
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AGCHAWK
J0n, that is a pig of a first buck!

Wish I was so lucky...first, second, or twentieth buck!
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NONYA
This was my first md buck taken when i was 12 on our place near Augusta, a old buck with most of his tines broke off and scars all over.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y7/H3RP3S/myfirstbuck.jpg" alt="" />
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bigbuck92
great pics all yall
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NONYA
Hey look im a 4 point,should rename this level "shooter"
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Hiker
This is my first Colorado mulie, 1983.
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This will be post number 1 for me and somehow it seems fitting.
I grew up in the south hunting whitetails and had plenty of near misses and misadventures. If there was a way to have bad luck I'd find it. Finally when I turned 19 things started working out for me and I killed my first deer, a 3x2 buck in the edge of my yard (ok, we had a big yard and no neighbors for miles). After that first one it became pretty easy.
I shot my first muley (a 3x3) on my third trip to Colorado in 1998 and I won't kill another one until I have a chance at a big one.
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MuleyMadness
screesurfer

Welcome and thanks for your 1st story!
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Thanks! Its good to be here.
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Im 35 and went on my first deer hunt 3 years ago so this will be my fourth season. I have yet to get one. But my obsesson grows with each deer I see on the local hillsides....
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FIRST WITH A RIFLE WAS A 3 POINT ABOUT 24 INCHES WIDE. AND MY FIRST WITH A BOW WAS A SPIKE THAT WAS BARELY LEGAL TAKEN ON THE LAST DAY. I WOULDNT OF SHOT HIM BUT MY DAD BET ME THAT I COULDNT SO I DID.
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Hiker
Here's a older photo... I killed this buck by Wolcott in 86 or 87.
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My first was 2x2 or 2point as we call them here anyways.
i was 14 my first year I could hunt he walked out of a clearing at about 150 yards there was me my step dad and my uncle they were yelling at me to shoot or they would next thing I remember was aloud boom and the deer going down my stepdad asked who shot and i didnt know until checked my chamber and found an empty casing then I said guess I did I was so pumped up I wasnt sure. I ended up hitting him in the base of the skull lucky I even hit him at all. I'm sure I was so concerned about his horns I almost missed.
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youngbuck91
Mine was a doe november of 2005...
In flat-top wilderness area in colorado, my dad and i both filled out tags by 9am opening morningg!

This year same place, missed a 3x3 buck ](*,)

http://img61.imageshack.us/img61/9528/doedeerfall2005el2.png" alt="" />
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my first was a beautiful 2 point i well never forget it what a memory
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Mine was a 24" 3x3 taken right here in California when I was 15 or 16. Pretty nice for a California buck. My first big game animal was a 13" antelope in Wyoming. I'd still take the mule deer any day!!
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oakbrush
My first was a southern California 3x2 when I was 12.

oakbrush
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killerbee
i didn't kill my first deer till i was 15 but he was a pretty nice 3 pnt. 27 3/4 wide
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MuleyCrazed
My first deer was a little 2X3 whitetail in Northern Idaho. I'm still looking for the big one....
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