What was your first centerfire handgun?

I no longer have it, but my first was a Ballester Molina .45. I've always been attracted to firearms that are a bit different and I couldn't afford a colt at the time.

I still have it...Colt O1091, Series 80 .45 ACP Government Model.

Beretta Model 84, bought new in 1980. Still have it.

Walther PP 7.65x17mm bought used in 1968. Didn't keep it long, though.

We got married in the summer of '84. I was 20yo. I bought a s&w model 27 nickel in a presentation case from a newly opened gunshop in our hometown.
Someone had given it a "trigger job" . It had a light trigger, but you could also push the hammer off of full cock with your thumb.
I took it on our honeymoon to the rockies. I thought I was going to have to use it in Victor, Idaho when some locals became interested in my brand new wife.

I traded that s&w... case and all for a brand new 4⅝ Blackhawk in .357. I still have that one.....and the girl too!

S&W 686. My Dad had issues racking the slide on his 40S&W BHP Practical, so we traded. Still have it. No regerts.

borrowedtime69 said:

What were your first centerfire?

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1974 satin nickel Colt Combat Commander bought brand NIB in 1992, shortly after I turned 21. I'd had my eyes on this gun since I was 14 and was pretty lucky to end up with it. Almost lost the box but managed to save it though it got pretty beat up. I lost the manual however.

I remember, shortly after I acquired it, driving down the road with another young man who pulled out his Makarov to show me what a bad dude he was and I kid you not, I looked at him and said, "yeah, that's nice but I prefer my .45" as I pulled it out and showed him and his eyes kinda bugged out. LOL.

A Taurus 85 titanium. I wish I hadn’t sold it. But I feel that way about all the guns I ever sold.

Three “gifts” for graduating HS: a $100 bill, the option of buying a Gold Cup, and the first degree paid for….same gifts as both my brothers received. Being the last of three and a decent HS education, I could explain my $100 was worth less than my brothers . That sort of fell on deaf ears. All of us still have our National Match / Gold Cups. Ultimately seven degrees divided among the three of us.

Hard to describe the value of all three…our folks “did us right”

Ruger P95DC with a stainless slide. Paid $175 in 1999 at a pawn shop in Richmond,KY when I was in college. Over the time I had it they probably got about $500 out of me for it, as many times as I pawned it back to them for beer money.

Ended up selling it to a fishing buddy who worked on the road and wanted something to leave at home for his wife. I never did like that gun.

I don't know.........
It was too long ago........

EAA Witness P-S 9mm, about 6-8 years ago I think....never had much interest in handguns until relatively recently.

Taurus Model 66 357 mag with a 6" barrel,
In 1986.

My Dad gave me his Trooper MkIII when he bought his Python for a duty gun, but took it back when my Blue Dot 125 gr. HP's cracked the hammer on the Python during his quals. He came back home, grabbed the Trooper, finished the quals, and kept the Trooper until I fixed the Python. When his PD went to Glocks, I bought both his Pythons, and he got the Trooper back. He gave it to my uncle for working on the TH400 on my mom's LeMans.

Walkalong said:

A Remington Rand 1911, which I foolishly sold years ago.

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I'm crying just thinking about it.

Ruger Blackhawk 4 5/8ths .45 Colt. Wish I still had it but after I left bear country I somewhat sensibly traded it for a 4 inch Security Six .357 Mag which I do still have.

IMI Magnum Research Desert Eagle MK I .357 magnum. 1984.

Taurus PT 92

I got a late start with handguns because I lived in NY city for a very long time. My first centerfire handgun was a S&W Model 619. Unfortunately I sold it to buy a 6 shooter because the gun club I was part of was running revolver competitions but only 6 shot revolvers were allowed and the M619 was a 7 round revolver. At least I bought a good revolver as a replacement, the M686.

My 1st handgun was a Ruger Super Blackhawk .44 Mag 7 1/2". Bought it Montgomery Wards in 1979.

Had it until 2015, took it to a gun show. A guy wanted at more than I did. Had the cash less than 15 minutes, found a Ruger SS Blackhawk .357 5 1/2" for less than I had sold the .44. Had it about 4 months, traded it for a Ruger Blackhawk .41 Mag 4 5/8" unmolested 3 screw.

My first legal purchase was on my 21st birthday & I got a Model 59 S&W.

1987 - I just turned 21 years old, S&W 357 Mag model 686 (gift from my dad) which I still have.
I owned many revolvers in the 1990's-2000's, 44 mag Dan Wesson, 44 S&W, 44 Ruger Redhawk, 357 Ruger Speed Six, 38 special S&W 38, 442, 642
Other than the 686, only two other revolvers remain: 38 Charter Arms snub (1st gun I bought my wife) and a Charter Arms snub that belonged to her mother.
The revolvers are safe queens; pistols in at least 9mm for carry.

I had a hard time to pay for a used S&W M14-2 with Herrett grips in greater Chicago back in spring of 1985 after just moving there. I still have the gun that usually has some Nill grips on it but S&W FGC in the photo.

S&W Model 10-7 4".