Did you start with a .22LR?

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I just spent this past Friday night and all day Saturday as an NRA RSO for a Troop of 8 Boy Scouts working on their rifle, shotgun, and black powder merit badges. These 8 boys went through nearly 1000 rounds of .22 shells in single-shot rifles! 200 rounds .20 ga. shotgun ammo, and an whole box of .45 cal ball. Everyone had a great time. Four adult scouters/chaperones accompanied the boys, and the boys camped out, in tents, at our range: temperature - 2* above zero! Hope you feel better now, Foxtrot

Thats sounds remarkably simlar to when I got my shot gun and rifle merit bagdes.. we woke up to 2 ft of snow on the ground. Good times.

 

[SteelyNirvana]

It flew off of the roof of my friend's car who was kind enough to go get it from my house for me while I was at work. No plinking that day...

Damn, thats sucks. I'm guessing you guys walked the entire route he drove and couldn't find it?

 

[makarovnik]

I started with a 9x18 makarov.

 

[Kind of Blued]

Damn, thats sucks. I'm guessing you guys walked the entire route he drove and couldn't find it?

It was a 15-mile drive, but he made quite an effort before realizing he had to break it to me. Luckily it was unloaded and no ammo was in the case. I followed up with two PDs on four phone calls, but no dice. He ended up paying me back, and I bought an AK, but you can't replace that "first gun".

 

[chriske]

Indeed : first a CZ 452 .22 LR bolt action rifle, soon followed by a Ruger MK II

 

[Mark K. C.]

Yep, on my 10th birthday, 40 years ago my folks gave me a .22 and a single shot .410! I traded them both back to my dad 2 years later for a Stevens .30-30 to take on my first deer hunt.

 

[moooose102]

nope, i started with a bb gun! then worked up to a 22lr. then a 20 gauge / 22 win mag combo gun. and then on from there.i still have the bb gun, and my kids enjoy it, and realisticly, even though it is to small, so do i.

 

[mainmech48]

We were taught the rudiments of safe firearms handling and marksmanship by our dad with the same old Winchester BA single-shot .22 his father gave him for his 9th birthday in 1927.

 

[lions]

I still remember when my dad took me to my first gun show and he bought me a Marlin model 81TS from a nice old man named Doug.

 

[kamagong]

My first gun was a Ruger 22/45. My first rifle was a CZ 452.

 

[mgkdrgn]

MGKDRGN good to know I'm not the only Nylon fan around here....

Not only that ... but I have the earlier version (NEA R92) of that 9 shot H&R you have as well.

 

[Valkman]

Yep, .22lr. My Dad stopped at Sears on the way home in '68 and bought me a .22 rifle, bolt action and single shot. I still have it, and 40 years later it's the one gun that's irreplacable.

 

[#shooter]

No, 410 shotgun. Didn't shoot a rifle until I was in the Army.

 

[Prepster]

I wish I could answer almost. I started with a Savage bolt action .17 hmr. It was a pretty good starting point, it fired like a laser beam at 100 yards, slaying more cans than I can count.

 

[420Stainless]

Nope. I did not shoot as a youth. 1st handgun was a 1911. First rifle, a Remington 700 Mountain Rifle in 30-06. I sometimes shoot .22LR now, but it was a few years after I started shooting before I tried a 22.

 

[The Wiry Irishman]

Air guns first, then .22 and .410

 

[Guitargod1985]

With rifles I started with 7.62x39 and with handguns, 9x19.

I shot a .22 once - maybe seven shots - with grandpa as a kid, but that hardly counts. I have my own .22 rifle now and I shoot it more than anything else.

 

[MD_Willington]

No

.303 British at 11 years old

 

[garymc]

I started with a BB gun and then a 22 rifle capable of shorts, longs, and long rifles. Since you went to the trouble of specifying 22lr I have to guess you meant that specifically. Back then shorts were cheaper than lr cartridges. I'm guessing you are young enough that your beginning rifles were labeled lr only.

 

[357sigRog]

My first gun .22 rifle auto

 

[Justin]

No, I didn't start with a .22, and my development as a shooter was stunted as a result. I didn't actually figure out proper shooting technique until I was practicing for bullseye matches with a Model 41.

 

[Kentucky Kernel]

yep, 22 lr Glenfield Model 25 rifle, purchased around 1976. I still shoot it now and then (but only at paper targets-I lost the taste for squirrel!).

KK

 

[peetee32]

savage single shot bolt action rifle bought at walmart on my way to a friends cabin. still have it...still a great accurate rifle. thinking back i wish i would have bought a bolt action with a 5-10 shot magazine just to be able to fire more shots. reloading gets a little annoying after 100 or so rounds...but i wanted the cheapest and safest rifle to operate, so at least i could show my girlfriend (now wife) that i was a responsible gun owner and wouldn't have any "is the gun loaded" type issues.

that being said i can't wait to teach my son and daughter how to shoot that gun. my son is almost two and my daughter is only 5 months old.

my wife is DEAD set against teaching them anything about guns, but i have a few years to work on her before starting a thread for help about that...lol.

 

[FMJMIKE]

Yep............A Glenfield-Marlin .22lr semi-auto.

 

[acn001]

9mm beretta 9000. Had to start my own exploration. Then my father wanted a shotty. Then went to my AR then my Kimber eclipse pro...

Looking to purchase another pistol but don't know what to get...???