Do you still have the gun you learned to shoot with?

[3 gun]

Still have and use the Crosman air rifle and Daisy CO2 pistol that started it all. Still used for pest control and fun.

 

[The Plainsman]

Winchester Model 69 Bolt Action .22 ....

My dad bought it in 1935 or 36, for the princely sum of $16 (two weeks pay as a gandy dancer on the Rock Island RR). He installed a weighted forestock, a Redfield peepsight, and a sling, and it's still got'em all. He used it to teach my mother, me, my two younger brothers and a baby sister, all of us, how to shoot. My mother used to be the best shot of the bunch of us (except Dad).

As the eldest child, the gun passed to me when my dad passed away nine years ago. It still gets used, but not too often. It will go to my son when I don't need it anymore.

P.S. My dad, a retired attorney, used this rifle to "dispose" of over a hundred (stopped counting at 100) squirrels in the middle of suburban KC and none of his neighbors ever knew. He used .22 shorts from inside an enclosed back porch, with a HUGE oak tree as a backstop. Virtually NO noise from outside. If a squirrel stopped at the base of that tree when Dad was "hunting", it was cold meat.

 

[Cool Hand Luke 22:36]

I learned to shoot at summer camp back in the late 60's. Some kind of Winchester .22. I'd guess that the Boy Scouts of America still has that rifle.

 

[280PLUS]

Funny mr last boy scout...

I learned at BSA summer camp many many moons ago on some single shot .22 that they kept.

Then later the USN taught me some more on some beat up old .45. They kept that one too.

 

[jobu07]

Harrington and Richardson .22 "targeteer" It was a great shooter than, still is now. Still has beautiful wood and steel. Smooth bolt and just a slick gun to shoot.

 

[foghornl]

Voted no...

My first gun was a 16-Ga Savage/Stevens Mdl 94B shotgun....'Pops' [grandfather] shotgun.

Oldest brother still has it though, and he shoots it once or twice a year.

 

[Kramer Krazy]

Mid-70's Daisey "Champion 99" BB gun. My father gave it to me as a gift for my birthday or Xmas, and it is sitting in my safe. It is in about 90-95% condition, I still have the original manual and the different, optional front site rings. The seals in it have been dry for years, so it shoots about 10 feet, now. I have often thought about trying to get some seals or have someone rebuild it, but I just haven't done it. Maybe by the time my daughter is old enough to start teaching. I have a few years.

 

[homeka45]

Benjamin Pump Air Rifle, traded for a crossman pump pistol. Not too smart.

 

[Pebcac]

I didn't vote because "No, but my Dad does" wasn't an option. It's an old Winchester semi-auto .22 rifle with a tube magazine and a little scope, and it was a blast to shoot. I expect I'll have it some day, but the time spent with my Dad is the more valuable part of the memory.

 

[smokemaker]

My family has a deal. The Marlin single shot .22 I learned on has trained almost all of us in the family, and it is understood that we pass it on to the next member (or more correctly, their parents) and that person learns with it. I'm due to get that gun in a year or so in order to teach my oldest daughter to shoot. Then I'll have it until my youngest is proficient with it, and then my Uncle Dave will get it to teach his two kids, who are younger than my kids by a few years. It really works great, and the gun is a real heirloom peice now.

 

[BerettaNut92]

Learned on an HK USP. It went bye bye.

 

[waterhouse]

It's not technically still in my posession, but my brothers and I all learned on a single shot marlin .22, which now belongs to my 9 year old nephew, at least until the next one in line is old enough to learn to shoot.

waterhouse