If you do I would love to see them. Reading the post about new handgunners taking their first critter this year is great. Here is my first handgun deer.



And my son ( LABRAT ) with his first handgun deer.

I should add even if its a squirel or a rabbit It deserves a post. reflex264

mine was a groundhog I think, but that was when I was probably 8 or 9. Pics are something I don't have, wish I did but I don't.

My first was a buck taken with a 460S&W at about 100 yards or so. Easiest tracking job I ever had!

I don't have one of my first one, which was a doe at 10yrds with a TC contender in 35rem. But this is my second on with an Encore in 45-70

nice pics

simple doe. I hang all my trophies in the freezer, not the wall. Good ol' s/w 29 .44m. My first handgun, my favorite hand gun still. The gun I used on my only (so far) deer this year too. Just a fine shooting gun.
The first deer I ever fired on I fired on 5 times with that gun, to no effect. I made every nubbe mistake. She climbed the tree and dope slapped me, and I still couldn't hit her. She got done, ran to the tree line and pulled a full profile and stopped to give me one last miss. She was considerate that way.
My first deer was with the .44, but thru a Winchester '94. Everything since then has been handgun, mostly the smith. I just have no interest to hunt with a long gun.
DB

I don't have any pictures because I haven't taken anything with my handgun yet.

Maybe I'll get lucky this weekend. All I ask for is a doe to walk out 50 yards away.

Anyway, awesome pictures, guys.

Nice pic James but your eyes are scaring the you know what out of me in that pic lol

James........are you wearing bellbottoms and platform shoes in that pic? ;=) I too, remember those days.

I use to keep a photo album years ago but be honest since every thing hhas gone digital I dont print pics most of the time I dont even take pics... might have to make it a new years resolution to carry a camera in the daypack. Kind of wishing I had one this year for my first handgun kills.

I don't have a pic of my first handgun kill, but I have my first pic of a handgun kill....



This was in '93; back before the good ole cell phones/cameras. I think I had killed 17 whitetails with a handgun prior to this photo. My first was with a Ruger Blackhawk in 45 colt shoot'n a 185gr sierra HP over a max charge of 2400 and topped with a 2X Tasco scope. The pistol featured in this photo is a T/C Contender with a 14" 30/30 win barrel and 2x Tasco. I was shoot'n 150gr NBT's over a max charge of W748. I used that same combo for several years to take multiple whitetails.