My first deer was on my first hunt when I was 11. 90 pound doe. My cousin put me in a stand with a Browning BLR 308 and told me to shoot whatever I saw. I'd been rabbit, squirrel, coon, dove, duck and quail hunting as long as I can remember but my father and grandfather didn't deer hunt. My twin brother killed one with him later that year. The next year they turned us loose on my grandfather's 350 acre farm. We had no clue what we were doing but we killed a bunch of deer and a few nice bucks over the next couple years.