Did you shoot your first deer with open sights?

[MS 9x56]

Both of my children and all 3 of my grandchildren learned to shoot with open sights. You gotta learn how to crawl before you can stand up and run.

 

[JohnCushman]

Shot my first deer, a small button buck, with a recurve bow

 

[INMT]

Shot my first whitetail with a New England Firearms Co. single shot 20 gauge.

 

[MS 9x56]

Shot mine with an Ithica single shot model 66 20 gauge with sights.

 

[RaiderRich]

I was 16 at the time and shot it with a Savage 1921 12 gauge pump with a bead sight

 

[Rie Bread]

30-30 Winchester octagon barrel from 1896

 

[popeyoung12]

1100 slug gun.

 

[hamwhiskeyjungle]

I did shoot my first deer with open sights. It was a wild experience, let me tell you. Felt like a sharpshooter in an old Western movie!

 

[CUElk]

Probably my first 5 or 6 were with open sights. First 2 with a Remington 870, slug. Then graduated to a lever action marlin 30-30. Great memories

 

[Benfromalbuquerque]

Yes and shitty iron sights at that. Couldn’t even label them proper buckhorn. Yet if I’d used a Williams or Lyman diopter target peep with an appropriate front globe insert… well I don’t think I’d ever have use for scopes.

 

[the nikster]

First couple were open sighted 30-30 marlin.
Then I got a couple with an old 30-06 Springfield I bought off a neighbor.
Dad let me shoot his savage 308 with an old Tasco the year I turned 16.
Got a few muzzleloader kills and archery since but mostly scoped rifles the last 40 or so.

 

[Nicoli7153]

Open sights Marlin 336 .30-.30 Winchester 10 yards or less in Da UP

 

[SCmountainwanderer]

Yes…20 gauge single shot NEF Pardner with a slug in ‘93. Dad purchased a new rifle the next spring and handed down his Marlin 336 purchased in 1978 with an old Tasco scope on see thru mounts the next season. Still my favorite rifle to use.

 

[stealthy_bowman]

Shot my first with a 12 Ga. Winchester Ranger model 128 with just a bead sight. 00 buck shot did the trick. Man was I a happy kid with that big doe 40 years ago.