Your first buck

3X3 muley, looooooooooooooong before digital cameras and I don't have a scanner to post the pic...............rf
 
Mine was a 5x6 buck but it was many, many moons ago long before Camera's. They only had flash pans then, so no pictures.

Brian
 
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he is 26 wide. shot him on a monday after i talked my cousin into taking me. i promised him that one of us would get a buck. then when we got to my spot, i told him to sit over some where else and i hogged this buck all to myself. took me the entire next day to haul him out.
the only eagle with enough power and speed to kill and gut you with one shot
 
1989 I think...
a 3x3 blacktail with a bow.
I have a picture but no scaner.
jack
 
1984 4X4 Mule Deer (5x5 w/eye guards)Winthrop WA will try to post a picture later.
 
LAST EDITED ON Oct-14-07 AT 10:00PM (MST)[p]Colorado Nov. 1983,just me and my Dad. I killed a small 4x4 and haven't missed a year since.

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the year was 1997, i was 27, on my 2nd year of hunting in the west. my dad never tought me much about huntin, so when the 120 inch 4 point fell i was as much elated as i was lost on what to do next!!!!
 
14 years old first muzzle loader hunt probably the smallest little forky i have ever seen


Just Living The Dream
 
1981 - 1x4. I thought I had killed King-Kong at the time. Great hunt with my brother. Neither one of us knew what we were doing. 2 dumb kids scratching our nads looking at a dead dear wondering what the hell we were gonna do next.

It's always an adventure!!!
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Geez......kids!

How about 1958....I was 12 when I bested a rogue forky, all of about 14" wide and a rippled 110 pounds.

I remember my grampa loading it into the back of the Willys Overland with one arm. Took me 6 hours to drag it down to camp and he tosses it into the back of the Willys like it was a friggin' turkey!

Model 12 Winchester with OOBuck. I put more holes in that buck than were in OJ Simpson's alibi

The Indians may have carved some petroglyphs into the local rocks about my monster, but I doubt I knew anyone with a camera until I went to high school.
 
Mine was a very small 4x5 that I shot when I was 14 in 1965 on a Colorado deer and elk hunt with my Dad and Uncle. I have some black & white photos I will have to find so I can post a pic. I do remember however I thought it was the most beautiful buck ever shot in the history of hunting..
 
1986 Ft. Hood Tx.
I was in the Army and it was a 2 x 2. As some would say it was a pisscutter, but it was my pisscutter and I'd do it again.
Shortly after I shot it I had to go on duty, so I rushed field dressing it. I took the head to the barracks and put it in the refrigerator in my room. Well luck would have it that that they decided to have a barracks inspection that day. I got called back to the barracks and reamed. I got extra duty over that one.
 
A little 3 point...with my bow.
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"Life's tough, it's even tougher if you're stupid." - John Wayne
 
1989----a thin-horned 4x4 about 19" wide in eastern montana with my mom, dad, and sister along. First of many great and continuing times with my Dad. We have hunted together every year since. Can't believe it has been nearly 20.
 
A tiny 3x2 with my Dad by my side in 1989. I was so excited I ran up the hill to find it(with an unloaded gun of course).

Tony
 
1990 a little 4x4 Whitey. He was so close all I could see in the scope was fur. He had little buttons on the end of his terminal tines.

Aim Center Mass
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1976 A 24"4x4. After missing several the first few years it was nice to get one down. 30-30 winchester. X-5A Ca.Back then there wasn't a drawing in Cali.
 
1966, My dad let me carry his rifle on opening morning. A nice 4x4 jumped up & I drilled it before dad knew what happened. I felt real bad because dad had to tag it. He said it didn't matter but I knew how much he loved to hunt deer and the season was over for him. Dad & I hunted together every year until 2005 when he killed his last buck. He was 80.

RUS
 
1992 - just south and East of Tintic Utah - hiked all morning to down a spike and drag it all the way back out. Didn't find any blood until after it had gone about 400 yards then found it dead at about 430 yards away from where I shot it. My grandfather, who sat back at camp, wanted to chew my A royally for downing a spike. Didn't tag out again until a 2x2 in 99, a 3x3 in 2003, a 4x4 in 2005, so lets hope 2007 continues that trend.

First deer hunt in 1985 my dad unloaded a .44 win mag on a buck just to find out he had the sight low. My father had killed a buck with his hogleg a few years earlier. The deer ran about 20 yards in front of the two of us as we sat in pass appropriately dubbed "buck nuts" pass.
 
195 gross 4x5 185 net. also shot amny many moons ago. my dad has a pick some where. i have some of the rack at home ill try and post later.
 
My first buck was taken with my bow when I was 16 years old back in 1989. I remember hunting after him and a couple of other bucks in the alfalfa fields. I hunted by myself for a week before I finally nailed him. After putting an arrow in the buck just before dark I remember having to run back home to get a lantern so I could follow the blood trail. The buck ended up going about 100yds before dying right in the middle of a 2 track road! He was a little 2pt but man was he HUGE in my eyes.

It sure is amazing how time flies by...

NvrEnuf
 
1994, October, Eastern Montana. My dad and I hunting first thing on a Saturday morning on some block management. I was so itchy trigger fingered it was amazing I waited for a buck. We spotted this buck feeding from about a half mile and managed to sneak up to within 325 yards of. My dad was glassing him and not sure how we were going to get closer, but I was in the zone and not even paying attention to what he is doing, I get set with my Remington 788 6mm and touched off a shot. The buck took about 7 steps and fell over stone dead. My dad was like, "what the heck did you do? I was gonna get us a bit closer." I answered, "I just shot him!" It was awesome, I was shaking so bad afterwards, but during the shot I was stone cold. He is 23" wide and a 4x5 scoring an incredible 145 points. That's right, I said it, 145. Really pretty buck.
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I harvested a 24 inch 4 point in Nv (1996). I have had the fever ever since. Seems to get worse EVERY year!
 
LAST EDITED ON Oct-15-07 AT 05:57PM (MST)[p]23 inch two point. Taken down in southern utah over by Hatch back in 2001. I will post a picture when I get home tonight. Shot it with a bow from 50 yeards away when I was 14 years old. Took it down with a old school browning, about 160 feet per second.
 
My first buck was a pretty generic 4x3; I was about 15 and thought I had the world by the tail (after a few does). I walked the LONG way back to the rig, so every other hunter could see it and be jealous.

A neat thing was that a much more experienced man stopped in his P/U. He let me tell him ALL about it. I can still see his eyes and his equipment...I'm sure he had "been there done that", but he let me believe he was envious....I've tried to thank him by doing the same for the young guys I see.
 
I shot my first deer in 1990. It was a small 2x2. I shot him with a 32 Winchester Special.
 
First buck was taken in 2005 without a guide...location, Arizona Strip. Gross score is 202. Photos are of mount that I just got back a few months ago....let me know your thoughts on the mount quality.

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2002 Nevada Rifle Deer a 21" 7x6 Grosses around 165 shot him at 515 yards up a schell rock slide. Lil bro killed his second deer 10 yards from were this one fell.
 
LAST EDITED ON Oct-16-07 AT 01:59PM (MST)[p]Boy some of you guy's really killed some nice 1st bucks! Congrats! Here is mine. Sorry about the "field" photo. Back in those days I never thought much of taking a "good" picture. I shot this buck in August of 1990 with my bow.

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Sorry about the edit, wrong pic the 1st time!
 
1986, 10 years old, had glassed up 2 coues, one about a 100 incher and a smaller forky. Made the mile stalk and came up the same canyon they were in but the opposite side. By the time we had got there, they had layed down. I had a .243 and was with my father and stepfather. My stepfather had his 30-30 open sights so we sent him up to try breaking them up. We were a good 300 yards from where we had seen them. He ended up busting them out, never saw the bigger buck, but the fork was trotting accross the side of the canyon. My dad didn't think i had a prayer and told me to go ahead and let a little lead fly, i was only 10. At this point, the buck was pushing 400 yards, I can't even remember where I aimed but fired, reloaded and waited for him to come out from behing a tree. He came out but rolling! I had hit him in the neck, bullet did not exit. Was probably about a 70 lb deer but for my first, I was thrilled!
 
LAST EDITED ON Oct-16-07 AT 02:38PM (MST)[p] My first Muley Buck was Twenty inch Three Point.



"Easy now, keep the croshairs right behind his shoulder & squeeze the trigger"
 
my first buck. i shot it this year on the archery hunt. it was a forkie on one side and a little drop tine on the other that dropped over its eye its kinda unique.
 
Mine was a little 2 point blacktail in 1997. Nothing special but he had a really unique rack.
 

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