What is the first gun you ever puchase or received

1) Sheridan Blue Streak - gift from my father
2) Winchester .22 rifle - gift from my father


Purchased by me:

HK P7M8 in 1985

The first gun ever given to me was a .22lr revolver SAO when I was six. It was sold when I was 12 and my mom decided to drag my family to the UK. The first gun I bought when I got back to the USA when I was 23 was a gen3 Glock 26. I still have it today.

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BIGGBAY90 said:

I don't know why glocks are so popular

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Reliable, durable, inexpensive, simple, affordable & plentiful mags and accessories...they are extraordinarily popular for good reason

A Smith&Wesson SW9VE. Yeah, a Sigma Swock.

I sold that gun at a loss and frankly I couldn't have been rid of it fast enough. Its replacement was a Sig Sauer P6. It's like going from a Yugo to a Mercedes-Benz.

It was a 410 shotgun, bolt action with screw on chokes, it was sold to my uncle for his boys I used the money to buy a used Ruger 22 pistol when I was 8. My son now has the 22 Ruger and its still going strong, that was over 50 years ago.

My first gun was a Old Topper Break Open shotty in 12 Gauge with a full choke. Took it on my first squirrel hunt the next year. Warn't much left of my first squirrel and that is why I switched to a .22 the next year.

A savage model 64 complete with thumb buster mags (also wicked 2 year old necro)

I still have mine. It was a piece of crap AMT Hardballer that I got for $200...

I ended up robbing parts off of it, gave the top end away, etc, until the only AMT parts left were the frame, and trigger...

So, I did the only logical thing to do with a spare frame... Rebuild it. The lower half is a mix of take-off and new parts, the upper was a fixed sight Ciener. I had the hidden bomar installed by a local smith, first one he did in a Ciener. To get the sight as low as possible, he made the first cut several times. Mill, look, repeat. When he started to break through the FP channel, he finished the cut. Despite this, I discovered that I needed a taller front sight, I had him mill a Novak dovetail and install a blank (.295" tall) front. Since this pic was taken, I've installed an EGW plunger tube/thumb shield and Wilson Gold Cup trigger.



Due to the scarcity of .22lr, its back in project mode at the moment... I didn't like the way the EGW plunger tube/thumb shield attached, so I'm making another out of steel that mounts with screws. I've got it roughed out, just need to finish it. Also have a wide Wilson thumb safety, narrowed so that it will come off the thumb shield and be the same width as my other 1911s off the slide. I'm going to have a truly gifted welder at work build up the worn rails, then I'll clean them up in the machine shop. After final fitting, I'll send the lower half to APW for nickel or hard chrome, haven't decided yet. At the rate I'm going, I have plenty of time to make up my mind...

It is the cheapest, most customized firearm I own. It has two names. "Money pit" and "Polished Turd."

Win 62A

After my dad died when I was 16, my mom let me pick one gun to keep from his collection and I chose the Winchester 62A because it was his favorite little rifle. I've only refinished the stock and still have it to this day, 48 years later. I also have the first gun I ever bought... A very nice, used Ruger Single-Six .22LR/.22 Mag. Bought it in 1970 when I was in college, for $55 at Mashburn Arms in OKC.

A Stevens #26 Crackshot that was given to me by an elderly family friend when I was in grade school. I still have it and it was the first of what was to become a fairly extensive collection of Stevens guns, plus a lot of others.

The Savage .22LR, inherited from a grandfather who died in '77 when I was 22 years old. Still all original.

The Savage website doesn't seem to include the serial number range of this classic, solid rifle, approx. late 1940's vintage.

Colt Combat Elite, bought it when I was 21 on Camp Lejeune.

Mossberg 500, I don't still have this.

First ever was a Winchester model 67 single shot .22. My uncle had given it to my brother. When bro went into the service, he sold it to me for $6. But when he returned, he insisted on buying it back......for $6.

Other than that, an M1 carbine in 1964 (I was a senior in HS), from DCM thru the NRA, for $19.95 delivered to my door by UPS. Still have it, and it shoots great.

1st Gun

A Ranger (Sears) .410 gauge single shot bolt action. I learned to hunt rabbits and squirrels with this gun, under my Granddaddy's watchful eye. He gave it to me when he was sure I'd use it safely. I no longer have it, due to a trade at a gun show. I was consumed with a lust for my 1st handgun, a S&W .32-20 revolver (dog gone it).

A savage m64 22lr it was a alright little semi the magazine was hard to load but the only problems I remember it having were with Remington ammo, it was stolen by my step dad to fund a trip out of country. I probably wouldn't buy another one if I bought a new semi auto 22

Marlin, Glenfield model 25, grandfather bought it for me. $50, that was in 1987 and it is still in my collection. It has killed more squirrels than custard killed Indians and continues to shoot just as well as it did the day it was bought used.

My dad got me a NEF 20ga for my 12th birthday. I still have it and shoot it every once in a while. The first gun I purchased was a Ruger 10/22 I bought on my 18th birthday. Still have it and shoot it almost every time I go to the range.

Lol just seen my own post from two months ago thus thread just wont die

S&W M-57 .41 Mag. 4" revolver that was given to me from another Ohio boy when I was in Nam. in 1967. I in turned gave it to another Ohio boy when I came back to the World. Semper Fi my brothers.

Will

A Mossberg 20 ga. bolt action shotgun with an OmniChoke. That gun was well traveled just in my family before I ended up with it. My uncle bought it in California back in the 1950's. He tried to give it to my brother when he was back home visiting but dad wouldn't allow it. My brother asked him if he could buy if he had his own money and dad said a man could do what he wants with his own money. My brother was about 8 at the time. He offered my uncle $5 for it. He had got it for his birthday about a week earlier and dad sure didn't expect us to have money in those days. He was caught off guard but he wouldn't go back on his word. My brother bought that shotgun for $5. He wasn't allowed to shoot it for quite a while though.

Eventually my brother grew up and moved out. He had many other guns by then and left the old Mossberg behind. Dad had all kinds of guns around too so he thought it was just in the way basically. Then it hit him that I didn't have a gun for HD even though I was recently married and lived in a fairly rough neighborhood. So that shotgun became mine. I was in college at the time so I couldn't afford my own guns. Besides I had always just used one of dad's guns when I wanted to shoot something. But that gun became my first official gun when I was about 20 years old.

That seems like an old age to get my fire gun but again I had guns I could use laying all over the place. I just never thought of getting my own gun. But I have cherished that shotgun for a very long time now. It's been almost 40 years ago that I got it.

I don't have it anymore though. I gave it to my daughter for the same reason dad gave it to me. She needed a HD shotgun because she was living in my house in the woods by herself. She certainly knows what to do with one too. Now she has several but that was her first gun too. I made her promise to hold onto it and pass it down someday too. It's just a simple shotgun that was never expensive but it means a lot to me.

Age 6, Daisy model 25 pump gun.
Age 8, used .22 single shot, falling block

This was back when life was simple. 1949 & 1951