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