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

[Sistema1927]

Yes, the same Winchester 1906 that I first shot as an eight year old still goes to the range on a regular basis. It also serves training duty for kids and grandkids.

Even more fun now is the fact that I have a couple of bricks of Aguila Colibris. They are so quiet that all you hear is the hammer dropping, and the "clink" of the round hitting a soda can. (These are fairly accurate out of both the '06 and my 39A.)

 

[Ky Larry]

Yes. For my 9th Christmas, my dad got me a Remington 514 single shot .22. It's sitting in my gun safe right now. It still shoots great.

 

[eclipse1]

i still have my trusty beretta elite II.
i started late learning about guns and shooting..
but anyway ill keep her

 

[KenW.]

savage model 72 ,octogon barrel, falling block single shot .22. Took many a woodchuck in my younger years.

 

[Sean T]

Nope, it was my grandfather's .22 and it was stolen. Kind of a bummer.

 

[Wags]

Yes I do! Inherited from my Father the first two firearms I ever shot: A H&R Sportsman Break Top 9 shot .22LR pistol, 1930's vintage, and a Mossberg Model 46a/b .22LR target rifle.

 

[Hardtarget]

I was in a yes & no situation. I do have the long gun I learned on , shot the most, and hunted with the most. It's a Savage mod. 24, .22/410 .I carried that gun at least a hundred thousand miles ( ). I also have my Grandfathers Rem Mod. 510 single shot .22. Put a lot of rounds through both of those guns. The pistol I learned on was my Dad's S&W K .22. My Dad gave it to my brother last year. He said I already had a Colt Diamondback .22 so he figured I would be OK with that. My brother does NOT shoot...but I'm still OK with it. If he dies first I still get the pistol...and his Harley!...but I'd rather he would stick around for a long while!

 

[Bear Gulch]

Mine is a Marlin single shot falling block that my dad got when he turned 11 in 1931. The lessons he learned with that rifle served him well in WWII. I am the youngest of 4 sons who all learned to shoot with that gun. It is a favorite in the collection. I shoot it 2-3 times a year.

 

[junke]

Ruger 10/22 still have it. put a kablilian rounds through it. in fact i just recently put a trigere kit, firing pin , extracter, bolt buffer, and after the ban i went out and purchased two more 25 rnd mags. my son shot it for his first time also. my first deer was with a win 94 30.30 also have/shoot it. (2x3buck)

 

[roscoe]

An old Mossberg .22 bolt gun my dad got from his dad. Still hits pennies at 75 yards.

 

[fistful]

You mean that M16A2 I qualified with in Basic? No. If I had it, I'd sell it and buy a real rifle.

 

[fanofevilblackriflesandrugers]

yep a ruger kp90 model still use it in bowling pin shoot.

 

["yote"]

Mine was a Stevens Little Favorite .22 (30's era gun I believe).
I absouluty love it. It is the perfect single shot and anyone who wants to
learn to shoot come see me. My Father learned to shoot with this gun. 3-4
squirrels a day kept the family fed during the Great Depression.

 

[Markheck1]

Nope....First gun was an old .22 single shot, I can't remember what kind it was, only that it was manually cocked. It wasn't long after that that dad bought my brother and I Marlin/Glenfield .22's. Still in my gun cabinet right now. Sitting right beside the old Winchester model 37 shotgun which was the first of those I ever shot.

 

[Old Fud]

Moondoggie, Roscoe and I share something ---- we all started on a Mossberg .22 that had been used as an Army training rifle.

My Dad and Mom joined a local rifle club in 1941. They bought War Dept surplus rifles when M1 production got rolling enough to relieve the need to be training boots on .22s. Dad got a Winchester, Mom got the Mossberg.

We kids grew up with them dry-firing in the living room.
The Winchester was too big and heavy for kids but the mossberg wasn't.

I had my 4 positions (with sling) pretty well mastered before I was 7.
Don't remember the first time they took me to the range so I could actually FIRE it, but I was taking it into the woods at 12.

With peep sights, it wasn't good for quick acquisition of moving targets, but if'n it sat still long enough to find it, I'd nail it.

Good memories.
Fud

 

[dodge]

I voted no as the gun I learned to shoot with was my brother's .22 Stevens single shot so he has it. The last time I talked to him about guns was when my father passed away a couple of years ago and he said the he's pretty much given up on shooting that gun as the firing spring had gotten very weak which lead to misfires. We decided on which of my father's guns we wanted and there was a single shot .22 there that I had given to my father and not needing another .22 I gave it to my brother. This .22 was given to me by a friend some years ago but I really didn't need it and my brother did.

 

[George S.]

I still have my J.C. Higgins single shot bolt action rifle (a Marlin Model 100) that my dad bought for me back in 1960 or so. I occasionally take it to the range but the extractor is about shot and I havent found a good replacement. Numrich didn't have one last time I looked.

Stil have my first shotgun too. A Winchester Model 37 12 gauge single shot that I got when I first tried Trap shooting.

 

[happy old sailor]

i posted on a question like this a couple years ago. yes i still have my first, however my 9yo grandaughter is using it. i got a Daisy 500 shot nickle plated BB gun for Xmas in 1936. it has accounted for many small critters over the decades. grandaughter likes shooting it so much, i got her one of those little european training rifles. Romanian ??. just fits her. last time i posted i had it in my lap so could give serial number and other nomenclature. remember it had a remarkably low serial number and that the Daisy mfg was not in Arkansas at that time. i would send it in for refurb but am afraid they would want to keep it for a museum article. would hate to say no for it could be on display for another almost 70 years for others to enjoy. think my GD will cherish it as i have. hope so. so many memories. oh, my dad, now dead, was on the Navy rifle team in the 30s, he taught me to shoot. i later won the all Navy championship , pistol. dad was proud fit to bust. he got me off to a good start. if i had not been able to hit anything, i would have probably lost interest.

 

[dolanp]

Other than my Red Ryder BB gun it was a bolt-action single shot .22. A nice gun. My parents still have it with them, I don't have it with me. Though if I asked they'd probably give it to me. Nice little gun, I can't remember off the top of my head the make of it. Chasing around the rabbits on the ranch took some skill because it took a few seconds to reload.

 

[crawfordew]

I learned to shoot with a Remington 510 (vintage 1945 just like me!) that my grandfather gave me when I was a kid. I still shoot it in my club's sporter rifle matches.
Gene

 

[DFBonnett]

No, I had to give it back. The Army is funny about those things.

 

[MikeB]

I believe so, if not my father still does; he can't remember which was the first I ever shot, and I certainly don't as I was about 5 at the time and had shot several firearms by the time I was 6. However among the first few guns I ever fired were a Ruger MarkII(the first gun my father ever purchased himself when he was 18 in the sixties), a Colt Gold Cup .45ACP 1911 (present from my mother to my father when he graduated from law school), a S&W 9mm semi (my father used as a reserve police officer in MA), and/or a Ruger 9mm/.357mag convertible revolver. My father still has the Gold Cup, the S&W 9mm, and the Ruger revolver, he gave me the Mark II a couple years ago. So basically yes I have or my father has the first gun I ever fired; hopefully I or my siblings future children will fire the same guns at a young age; although now the family collection has grown they may end up firing others first. As a matter of fact my father is building a custom 9mm 1911 for my sister right now, I wish her fiance was more into guns, but at least he isn't an anti and enjoys shooting now and then; so their kids won't miss out on the training; guns for christmas or other holidays and overall enjoyment of being shooters. I plan on doing my uncle job there.

I unfortunately don't have the first firearm I ever owned - at least in working condition, when I was about 6 I was given a .22lr single shot rifle under the Christmas Tree. That rifle more or less began to fall apart several years ago and has now been replaced with a duplicate in working order, the original much to my chagrin is no longer in a very useable state.

 

[CZ-100]

Yes I still have it, it is a Winchester .22 that my dad had and taught me to shoot with and I have since taught both of my sons to shoot with it.

 

[2400]

The first handgun I ever shot was an Iver Johnson Sealed Target 8. I've still got it and I shooot it every so often.

 

[albanian]

I learned to shoot with my Dad's Rem nylon 77. He gave it to me and I sold it for $50. The funny thing is, I don't really regret it since it was a jam-o-matic even after two trips to the factory. These nylon Rems were accurate but most I have seen were very unreliable. My brother had the nylon 66 and that jammed like crazy as well.

There are a few guns that I regret getting rid of but not so much that it keeps me up at night. If I decide that I made a mistake, I can always buy another one. I sold my Kahr E-9 and regreted it almost every day until I finally bought a K-9 and everything seems to have righted itself.

There are a few guns that I will never sell because they are special and I can't be certain of getting another one as good. I have a Beretta 92fs that is the smoothest auto have ever seen, it feels like oiled glass. Every control is smooth and light. It is a joy to shot and own. I also own a Star BM that is the most accurate 9mm I have even shot. It is a $129 AIM special that can put every round through the same hole if I do my part. It is a sleeper and I know that my chances of finding another Star Bm this accurate are not great.