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    Posted: March 16 2006 at 12:59pm
  new hunters in various countries and states(PROVINCES/territories)  usually start off with a particular firearm.what was yours?  POPS (glenn)
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My first centre fire was a .310 cadet ! I then moved up to .303's but not before a lot Of Foxes ,Goats & Roos had fallen to that little .310  I was about 14 when I saved the money up for that .310 (& My Dad went crazy that I'd wasted 15dollars including 100 rnds of ammo for it ) Now my 12yr old has discovered the round & no Roo ,goat or Fox is safe 

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My first hunting rifle was a ZKK-600 in .270 Winchester, lots of critters went to the freezer with that one.
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Well as most of you know I am young yet reletively speaking.  I did not have a father to take me hunting either.  But to asnwer your question  My first (and only but I'm working to change that) centerfire was a .303
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My first center fire was a Savage 7mm.  It could sure knock some stuff down.  Including me....
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Originally posted by DEXX DEXX wrote:

My first center fire was a Savage 7mm.  It could sure knock some stuff down.  Including me....


 I traded down to a 7mm mag once from a 375 H&H cz 601  the 7mm was on a 700 Rem BDL 50 shots later I traded up to the 375H&H again as I reckon it had less recoil !

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Hey Glenn ? would your signiture have anything to do with Eureka Stockade  & the silght dis agreement that acurred there one Sunday morning in 1854?

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Well, since we're discussin the FIRST huntin rifle, I have to say that mine was a .303, as well.In fact, as a cadet - I fired .303 FIRST there too, BEFORE we shot .22
(I dunno - just worked out that way)
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Boy have times changed here in the PRK. Right after my 12th birthday, I spent most of Saturday in the basement of a Sears store taking my hunters safety course. After the test, I ran upstairs and proudly purchased a box of 180grn 30-06 cartridges, met my dad out front and we were off to go deer hunting. No deer that year, but lots of fun.
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30-06 was my first. browning A-bolt hunting rifle

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  TO DAVE H G,DAY M8, YEH, ITS THE STOCKADE ALL RIGHT,POMMIE BASTARDS AT THEIR "best"AGAIN!!!!!  THE TRUE AUSSIE FLAG,THE SOUTHERN CROSS,BLUE WITH WHITE CROSS AN 5 STARS, I BELIEVE ON DISPLAYED AT BALLARAT MUSEUM,WAS DESIGNED BY A CANADIAN MINER(at the stockade).CAN,T REMEMBER OFF HAND IF HE WAS CALLED LEIUTENANT ROSS OR JOHNSON? WE ALL NEED SOMETHING IN OUR MINDS TO REMIND OURSELVES HOW LUCKY WE ARE,AND THE SACRIFICES OTHERS HAVEGONE THRU,SO WE CAN ENJOY OUR LIVES TODAY! BALLARAT IS AN EXAMPLE.THE COAL MINERS STRIKE,HERE IN NANAIMO,WHERE I LIVE,IS ANOTHER EXAMPLE.COAL MINERS ON STRIKE, WERE FELL UPON,BY HER MAJESTY,S ARMY AND THE TRAPS,. SOME WERE BEATEN TO DEATH,OTHERS SHOT TO DEATH,.SO MUCH FOR nice quiet non threatening canadiansPOPS(glenn) i started off hith a #4 mk.1, then got a browning .375H&H. lent it to a fella in 1965 to go moose hunting. never seen him,or the browning again.today,its a #4mk1*/3   (savage U.S.A.) and a 1964 m-70 in ,30-06. has a brand new 1958..Barrel. yea1958.tks to   member.303carbine. shoots under 1.moa really nice gun. Pops
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 Gday. my first centre fire was a SABATTI .270 

 its still a favorite of mine for "cooking" ROO'S with...
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Winchester 30-30... Am I the only one around here that started with the ole 30-30? It was my fathers he used it back in the 40's and 50's to hunt with..  Then it was my turn...  It was willed to him by and old Sherif who had carried it on duty..  It had been on more then one man hunt. (or so The story goes)


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A P-14.
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a 1942 longbranch was my first rifle. I took it out got a 9 point buck that year.
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