Whats Your First Gun Experience?

First experience, my father teaching me to shoot with an ancient break barrel bb gun and a Stevens Marksman. Or perhaps my first guns, a H&R Topper 16 gauge and Winchester 67.

I was eighteen or nineteen, and my stepfather (of only a couple of years) had finally convinced my extremely gun-shy mother to let me buy a .22 Winchester M190 rifle from him. He was to teach me how to use it. He and I took it out to a remote area and I got familiar with it pretty quickly, shooting at the usual plinking targets such as cans, plastic bottles, and other debris.
My mind raced for periods after that, with visions of competitive shooting and even scenarios in which the rifle would defend the home (yes, just like Ralphie in "A Christmas Story".) My mother knew that I was aspiring to be a LEO one day soon, and that was probably part of the reason she allowed it. Several months later, he died, and his son, whom I'd never meant, came around. I let him take the rifle, as I guess it had once been considered his, and my mom had no problem letting me replace it with another gun. Of course, once that nut was cracked, it left the door open, and a shotgun soon followed me home from a store. Over the remaining few years I lived at home, I acquired several more guns, including the first four handguns I purchased after my 21st birthday, and one that was issued to me when I did enter law enforcement.

I think the first time I fired a gun was once when my stepfather let us shoot his .22 savage or was it a steven's semiauto out the parent's bedroom window into the ground.
My first guns were a 28 ga single shot for christmas when I was about 14 and then a P17 30-06 for christmas (cost $30 from Klein's Warehouse on W. Madison St, Chicago) when I was 16. Then a mail order .22 Herter's guide revolver when I was 18.

I'm British and strongly pro-gun. My family is strongly anti-gun. I was 28 and realized I had always loved guns but never owned one, so it was time to start my collection! I knew I wanted a 38 Special revolver, didn't know why, but I wanted one, and I would know 'the one' when I picked it up.

I haunted gun stores for months and was in a little gun store in Cleburne, TX, checking out the handguns, but didn't find 'the one'. I was literally walking out the door and noticed a cute little Taurus PT-25 in the display case for $190.

I thought, well 25 is three better than 22 (knew practically nothing back then), and how it would make a perfect first gun - if I did have a ND and shot my foot it probably wouldn't be serious, and bought it.

It never fed anything but ball ammo, so I'd stick a Winchester XTP in the pipe with the tip-up barrel and load the magazines with FMJs. I loved that little gun. I got five magazines and an Uncle Mikes pocket holster. I have to admit, walking to get the mail in my apartment complex was much more comforting with the little 25 in my pocket. Until I got my Rossi M88 38 snubbie, it was my only gun. It is also the only gun I've had to draw for real. The sound of the safety clicking off really was the loudest sound I've ever heard. Fortunately nothing happened and everyone stayed safe and unshot.

Wish I hadn't sold it, and plan to replace it someday with a PT-22. Now I rely on my 357 Mags and my 20ga, but need one of everything! Really want a S&W 58 41 Mag. I can get 41 Special LSWC ammo for $27.50 for 50 rounds from reedsammo.com. It also shoots 41 Mag! If the 41 Special had come out before the Magnum, I believe this would be a much more popular round than it is. I just need the $800 to buy one!

My first real gun was a Winchester Model 310 single shot .22. My Dad bought it for me on my 12th Birthday. I spent hours in the woods Destroying tin cans and blowing up Bottles. Later on that same gun taught my Brother to shoot. He dropped it on a rock while we were hunting critters and cracked the stock right at the pistol grip. I'm now almost 50 and I still have this rifle today. I'm still looking for a replacement stock.

I was a big city kid. My first gun I made myself when I was a young teen. Generally called Zip Guns.

My first "real" guns were 22 Remington single shot rifle (16) and a Webly 38 and a Beretta .25 MINX I ordered out of a magazine. I think I was 17.
(Back they you could mail order very inexpensive WWII guns, 1911, Lugers, etc, out of magazine ads. The guns were delivered to your door. No paperwork.)

My first big gun was the M1 Garand the USMC gave me when I was 18.
Now there's a gun.

Christmas 1977, 8 yrs old. After all the presents are open dad pulls a "Christmas Story" on me and there's a Marlin .22 hidden behind the couch. I had no idea and didn't even ask for it so it was a total surprise. Came with all the lectures and lessons. Good Times

My first gun experience was on the range. It was part of my training in becoming a certified Correctional Officer for the state. I trained to shoot with 4 firearms. A Remington 870 12 gauge, A bushmaster AR-15 .223, a Model 15 Smith & Wesson revolver .38 Special, and a glock 17 9mm. I shot the best with the Model 15. It was the best part of the Academy.

First gun was either a Winchester 22 pump or a Winchester model 94 can't remeber as it was 40+ years ago

My first (BB) gun was Daisy 366 @ 14yo - It was all chrome and I felt like a marksman. My grandpa taught me all the rules of gun safety before he would let me shoot. When I was 23 I decided I needed a real gun and bought my shotgun. I occupied lane 3 til closing time, leaving a foot-tall pile of confetti out near the 25 mark. Howard (gun range operator), laughed at me and said he outta make me clean it up.
Before having a real gun I was dreaming of bravely defending myself one day. After having one in my home, the reality of owning these weapons has quickly sunk in. If I ever needed to defend myself with these guns, it would be a sad day, reguardless of the outcome. And if that day never comes, a lot of posters have died to make me ready for it.
I have purchased 10 firearms in my lifetime and still have 8 of them. I will likely have an arsenal before I die.

I have no idea and no one in the family has ever been able to pinpoint which gun I shot first. It was probably one of my uncle's many used .22 bolts that passed through his hands.

I liked guns so much that my grandparents gave me a BB rifle, wall rack and cleaning kit when I was 5. I couldn't even work the lever by myself. So that means my first shooting experience had to be well prior to 1955.

All right, look at this, the right rack and cleaning kit, but the wrong gun. I wore the gun out, but have the rest. The box is red steel and the bottles are glass.

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On the back porch of the house my Dad standing behind me helping me hold his little S&W 22LR revolver. I remember how loud that little gun was. That has been 40 years ago.

Shortly there after he gave me a Browning Semi-Auto 22, break down, made in Belgium, Grade II. I still have the box it came in. Makes me smile to think about those days.

IIRC; Must have been around 1961...I was about eight.
A family friend took me plinking along a creek side with an old (old in 1961 even) Colt Woodsman.

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Don't remember if it was my first or not but it was pretty close. You're going to think I'm old but, it was 10th grade in high school. We had an ROTC program, a rifle range in the school with .22 target rifles, targets, ammunition and instructors. Bet you know that was a few days ago.

I think I was around eight. Shot an old S&W .22 revolver.

I was pulling the trigger on my dad's Colt autoloader .22 when I was 5 or 6. I got my first gun for my 12 B'day. A H&R Topper. It cost all of 40 buck brand new from K-Mart. I still have it.

Over 53 years ago, a single shot Stevens 22, then a Single shot Remington 22, then my dads k-22.. Still have them all... I think I was all of 5, maybe..... Shot my 1st NRA Sanctioned Small Bore Match when I was 6... Had the habit ever since, no sign of it letting up..

The earliest memory I have of shooting ANY gun was at around age six. I remember it loaded through a hole in the side of the stock and was a semi auto. More than likely it was a Browning Auto 22 or a Remington 24/241.

First shotgun was about a year or two later.....I remembered it made me cry.

First shot was a Hawkin 50 cal musselloader.First gun was a savage model 24 22/410 and a 20ga h&r topper. It was a good Christmas . Thanks dad and grandpa.Dad was leary about giving me 22 shells said they shoot to far to know whats beyond your target.

I actually can't remember the first, but I remember having two BB guns before my first real gun, a New England Arms 20 ga youth model break-action I got for Christmas at age five. I couldn't even cock the hammer my step-father and his dad would do it for me while I had it shouldered, and I wasn't allowed to shoot it without them but could with the BB guns and the bow I got as a birthday present three months earlier. This was in '93 been hooked ever since.

First shot was this 50 years ago.

My first experience? A five year old kid with an older brother who had just bought a Winchester 52B made in 1948 and it was spring of 1949. Later that summer I shot it on our pasture range, don't remember how I did tho.

I now own the rifle just as my brother had it equipped with a Lyman Target Spot, I'm short two things, the box it came in and the 5 rd magazine. Otherwise its complete as shipped.

The first time I fired a real gun was ~ age 5, my Dad's Winchester Model 67. The first gun I actually owned was a Bronco single shot .22, IIRC my Dad paid ~ $12 for it NIB.

Still have both guns.