1986. I was 10. First time I ever got to go deer hunting and it was opening morning of juvenile hunt. Got out of the jeep with dad and we walked about 50 yards into the woods. Looked up and a doe comes running through the woods and stops in the trail we are standing in about 15 yards away broadside looking at us. I asked dad if I could shoot it. Hehe. I did and she dropped in her tracks. I remember thinking how easy deer hunting was. Lol
Got my first deer in 1997. I was 10 years old. I remember it like it was yesterday. Something I'll never forget. I don't know who was happier lol me or my dad!
Sometime in the very late 1970's. To be totally honest I can't remember which deer was my 1st. So much for your 1st being memorable, huh? I was in my late teens.
About the same for me, as I remember the deer, and the hunt like it was yesterday, but a little fuzzy on the exact year. I'm thinking it was in '77 or '78. Old moses my buddy named him, a 1-1/2 yr old 2 pt...yep, 2 pt, not a spike. He had a broken 3 point frame on one side, but slick as a ribbon on the other.