what was your first kill

pike2 · Dec 7, 2012

mine was this 17 pointer in 1979 i was 13 by winterset iowa, using a TC hawkins rifle, got to my sitting place that morning before dawn, heard a rustling behind me but it was open corn field so i turned back to the timber in front of me, when it got light enough i looked back again nothin out there but open field, something kept drawing my attention back to the field, then i spotted a small patch of slew grass so i kept my eye on it, when my dad came up to where i was i said drop a slug into that slew grass out there and it landed just in front of it, and shure enough this guy stood up and walked out of that patch, put my sights just on the leading edge of his body and then a big cloud of smoke the buck took off at high speed, watched him run to the next timber and when he got to it, BAM full speed right into the fence and went down, when we gutted him we found his heart just laying there in his chest, cut both arteries off his heart, he was old and wise and ungodly huge, hung him up and he bent a 3 inch dia pipe we used to hang deer up, his head was on the floor and his butt was above my head, more like a cross of a mule deer.

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pineywoods · Dec 7, 2012

Chrish that was one heck of a first deer. You feel happy for someone that kills something like that as a first deer but also kind of sad for them knowing that they may hunt the rest of their life and never kill a better one. Oh and we don't grow them like that down here

s2k9k · Dec 7, 2012

I think I slapped a mosquito when I was like 2 or 3....first kill....no rack

rabbithutch · Dec 7, 2012

A rabbit, of course!

I never hunted deer. When I was a kid in eastern NC they hunted them with dogs and shotguns - rifles were illegal in most eastern counties. I went on a couple of hunts but never saw a deer.

My hunting buddy and I got a bird dog and trained it for quail. We took it back down to the deer hunting area after deer season and had great shooting. Where we lived, you might get up 2 coveys a day and spend the rest of the time working single birds. Down East we could get up a covey for about every couple acres we hunted. I got reasonably good at not flinching when the dog flushed the birds; but that flutter of 30 or 40 pairs of wings will get your adrenaline pumping for sure. I hunted with a double barrel 12 ga. On a good day I might get 2 birds 3 times when a covey was flushed.

That is a beautiful buck. He was certainly an old timer. The white tails here in this part of TX never get that big. Not enough feed; too many deer.

pike2 · Dec 7, 2012

Pineywoods said:
Chrish that was one heck of a first deer. You feel happy for someone that kills something like that as a first deer but also kind of sad for them knowing that they may hunt the rest of their life and never kill a better one. Oh and we don't grow them like that down here

that didnt come without a downside, getting that big buck left me fruitless on another kill for many years, and yes theres no topping this except going to the extrem north iowa, i think mule deer are bigger but not shure where they are, could be just a fluke that an older deer got more calcium then normal for the rack, he was a smart one hiding but he didnt bolt like he should have leaving me with best guess lead of a shot that i probly would have missed him on a fast run.

venture · Dec 7, 2012

Could it have been a sparrow with a Red Rider BB Gun?

Good luck and good smoking.

diggingdogfarm · Dec 7, 2012

First kill?

A skeeter!!!! :biggrin:

I got a decent 8-point, 1977, age 12.

~Martin

pike2 · Dec 7, 2012

rabbithutch said:
A rabbit, of course!
I never hunted deer. When I was a kid in eastern NC they hunted them with dogs and shotguns - rifles were illegal in most eastern counties. I went on a couple of hunts but never saw a deer.
My hunting buddy and I got a bird dog and trained it for quail. We took it back down to the deer hunting area after deer season and had great shooting. Where we lived, you might get up 2 coveys a day and spend the rest of the time working single birds. Down East we could get up a covey for about every couple acres we hunted. I got reasonably good at not flinching when the dog flushed the birds; but that flutter of 30 or 40 pairs of wings will get your adrenaline pumping for sure. I hunted with a double barrel 12 ga. On a good day I might get 2 birds 3 times when a covey was flushed.
That is a beautiful buck. He was certainly an old timer. The white tails here in this part of TX never get that big. Not enough feed; too many deer.

oh ive had that happen too, covey of quail take off at your feet and crap your pants, when i was yonger we lived in the country and behind the house was a decent sized timber lots of brush and a rabbit heaven, hunted them with a 22cal rifle and my dad sold them to a few black guys he worked with for $1.50 apiece and that got me more shells and some extra to buy estes rockets i think it was, loved those model rockets back then

pike2 · Dec 7, 2012

Venture said:
Could it have been a sparrow with a Red Rider BB Gun?

Good luck and good smoking.

naa 22cal shooting crows out of the sky, been so long now id have a hard time hitting my ass, maby better to shoot her ass instead of mine :-)

linguica · Dec 7, 2012

My first kill was a very large dragon fly that kept flying back and forth just over my head. I waited till it lit on the ceiling (16 feet high). Took out my trusty Crossman pellet pistol and fired, one round, center shot to the thorax. They'll teach the @#$%^& to mess with me.

brekar · Dec 7, 2012

1992 when I was 12 years old. My first was a large doe that dressed out at 178 lbs. I shot her at 50 yards as she was running straight towards me directly in the center of her chest. She ran about 10 feet before piling up and sliding about another 30 feet down a hill and into a pond. It took my dad, me and little brother to get her out of that damn pond. I took her with my Winchester model 94 30-30 I had received for my birthday earlier that year. Since then I have killed alot of deer with that rifle...

pike2 · Dec 7, 2012

at least you werent using a 410 or 22 to shoot those flyies off the ceiling Linguica :-)

pike2 · Dec 7, 2012

Brekar said:
1992 when I was 12 years old. My first was a large doe that dressed out at 178 lbs. I shot her at 50 yards as she was running straight towards me directly in the center of her chest. She ran about 10 feet before piling up and sliding about another 30 feet down a hill and into a pond. It took my dad, me and little brother to get her out of that damn pond. I took her with my Winchester model 94 30-30 I had received for my birthday earlier that year. Since then I have killed alot of deer with that rifle...

big thumbs up on the Win 30/30 back in the day they were very common but not today, larger bullet less powder packs a big wallup on whatever it hits, nice old western gun too, 30/30 is is a nice gun to have in a collection.

brekar · Dec 8, 2012

pike2 said:
big thumbs up on the Win 30/30 back in the day they were very common but not today, larger bullet less powder packs a big wallup on whatever it hits, nice old western gun too, 30/30 is is a nice gun to have in a collection.

I still have it. It's a great brush gun that I use when the shots are going to be at a range where I don't need a scope. It looks really dumb scoped. It's one of 2 deer rifles in my deer hunting repertoire, the other is a Savage 111 .270. Between those 2 I don't need anything else.

shoneyboy · Dec 8, 2012

1987, Christmas day….I received a Benjamin Pellet gun for Christmas that year. I shot a squirrel at my grandparent’s house. They had trouble with them tree rats eating everything up until that Christmas…..LOL …..I will never forget that day for the rest of my life…..

pike2 · Dec 9, 2012

Brekar said:
I still have it. It's a great brush gun that I use when the shots are going to be at a range where I don't need a scope. It looks really dumb scoped. It's one of 2 deer rifles in my deer hunting repertoire, the other is a Savage 111 .270. Between those 2 I don't need anything else.

cant say that I've ever seen a 30/30 with a scope on it but id agree it wouldn't look right at all. we cant use high power rifles here, not legally anyway

used a 22/250 i think it was but the 250 caliber doesn't sound right maby it is tho, i got one with it had to track it all over the countryside, bad thing about them is if it hits a blade of grass it vaporizes and on a deer it throws shards of brass and lead all over the inside

pike2 · Dec 9, 2012

my brush guns, on the right is a TC white mountain 50 Cal, when its rainy a Savage 24S-E over under 22-20 gauge throws a slug really well, even better skeet shooting (when my reflexes were good) shoulder it from the waist and shatter those clays 10 - 15 feet out, anyway my backup shot thaty bagged 2 deer so far from a tree stand, Traditions 50 cal pistol, 80 grains of powder, i can use sabots but for knock down power i use an all lead maxi hunter, (for the life of me i cant think of the name for those) not a ball but longer, ill think of it sooner or later, i could take a pic of one of them,

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kryinggame · Dec 9, 2012

pike2 said:
my brush guns, on the right is a TC white mountain 50 Cal, when its rainy a Savage 24S-E over under 22-20 gauge throws a slug really well, even better skeet shooting (when my reflexes were good) shoulder it from the waist and shatter those clays 10 - 15 feet out, anyway my backup shot thaty bagged 2 deer so far from a tree stand, Traditions 50 cal pistol, 80 grains of powder, i can use sabots but for knock down power i use an all lead maxi hunter, (for the life of me i cant think of the name for those) not a ball but longer, ill think of it sooner or later, i could take a pic of one of them,

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Ah sweet. Nothing more American than a shed full of guns. Reminds me of Lynyrd's song, God & Guns

oldschoolbbq · Dec 9, 2012

Beautiful Trophy . The Armory intrigues me too , 'me like guns'

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My first kill? Two Quail on the fly...this was after watching the Harley Berg (a Texas Game Warden's outdoor show in Temple , Tx., a long time ago) . He showed film clips and explained how to "lead" the shot , so after Lunch my Uncle ,Dad and I went hunting and I topped the limit that day and seriously surprised my Dad and Uncle...8y/o and a 410ga.

Since then , all the Deer in Cen-Tex were so small they looked like big Goats. When they were hit by a 30.06cal. round , they almost explode, you either had to get a head shot and ruin the mount .

The birds were nice and , having come from the Northern feeding grounds , very abundant. Miss those days

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Keep on getting Big-uns and ...

pike2 · Dec 9, 2012

ive heard that before, the most southern states the deer are really small

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