Do you still have your first firearm?

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Yes, a Winchester Model 37 single shot 12 gauge that was given to me by a family friend
back in 1959 when I was 12yrs old. It is still a shooter.
 
I wish. I seem to be in the minority. I viewed guns back then, 25 years ago, as simply a means to an end and placed no sentimental value on them. I let some pretty nice ones go over the years, but I'm pretty happy with my collection now.
 
Yes. A Winchester Model 370 single shot 12 guage, 32 inch barrel, full choke and 3 inch chamber. Bought it when I was 14 or 15.
 
Yeap. Remington 870 20GA. Bought it brand new 5 1/2 years ago at the age of 13 after saving up for a whole summer. Haven't shot it in a few years though.
 
No, it was a Stevens 16 ga that my Dad gave me for Christmas in 1963. My brother sold it after I joined the Navy (1970) and used the money to buy a Mossberg 500 pump. My brother gave me that Mossberg after my last tour of duty overseas (1990) and I still have it.
 
Yep still got my Ruger Standard dad went halves with me on when I turned 11, some 29 yrs ago....could I be that old!
 
Yes, a Mossberg semi-auto 22 rifle. My second gun has been sold off as well as a number of the initial first dozen. Most were gathering dust and I just decided to sell them when I found interested buyers who plannned to shoot them. After a while they just become "guns" and the emotional attachment slowly dwindles.
 
Yes...I bought my first firearm when I was 18. It was ten or eleven years old when I purchased it. I am now 67. It was and is a Winchester .30 WCF Mod 94 manufactured in 1949. I still hunt with it.
 
Mine is a Browning BL-22
It is in retirement now....you have to stick a finger in the eject port to help align the shell into the chamber.
I'm not even goona try to say how many rounds I shot through that rifle.
 
Yes, and every other gun I have acquired since. I'm old, and began gun ownership just a couple of years ago. I think before I buy. I expect to still own all my guns when I check out and leave all my guns to my kids. I missed the experience of shooting and owning guns when I was growing up.
 
Lander, Wyoming in 1948-49 was a small, remote ranch town of about 2500 people where the Great Depression was just starting to end. As a nine year old boy, I would spend my 15 cents at the Saturday matinee and then go hang out at my favorite place, Spaldsbury's Saddlery and Sporting Goods. What a wonderful place it was: odors of new and old leather, new and old horse blankets, pipe smoke, original Hoppes and gun oil, occasionally a faint whiff of whiskey. Glass cabinets full of old Colts and Smith&Wessons. Racks full of Winchesters, Remingtons, Marlins, etc. More racks full of surplus Krags, Springfield bolt guns and trapdoors. Fishing gear too. Spitoons and sawdust on the floor.
One day a brand new Winchester 67 Youth appeared, price only $13.00 IIRC. I had some Christmas and birthday money squirreled away and conned Dad into spliting the cost. I didnt have to sign for it but Dad had to come down and carry it out for me.
I spent the next 3 years or so potting tin cans, stray crows and riding along behind Dad on old Poppin' Johnny, terrorizing prairie dogs. I learned to shoot with that gun.
At age 12 or 13 I got the hots for a new Remington model 512 at Spaldsburys, so I traded in the 67 on it This was in about 1952. Never looked back until much later in life.
In 1982, my Air Force career at an end, I moved back to Lander to start a new life. Every once in a while I would go to a gun show and see a Model 67 Youth and get a lump in my throat, longing for the days of my childhood and kicking my self for ever trading off my very first gun.
About 3 years ago my wife and I stopped at a yard sale put on by an older fellow here in town. He had some guns on a table and there it was, a Winchester 67 youth in very good condition. Got to chatting him up about it and asked him the history of the gun. He said he got it for his little son but the kid never took an interest in it, so it had been in the back of the closet for the last 50 years. I asked him where he got it, he said he bought it used at Spaldsburys in about 1952!! I gave him his $100.00 and ran for my truck , shaking like a leaf!
I cleaned it up and took it to the range to shoot a few cans, which I did, but it was difficult, I kept getting some smoke in my eyes.
My very first gun is back with me, and holds a place of honor in my safe. Life is good.
 
Sadly, no. I've replaced it several times over with the same type of Colt Browning 1903 Model M "Pocket Hammerless Automatic".
 
This is a great question. I do not have the same " first gun" that was given to me by my Father. It was a Christmas gift at age 14 of a New Winchester 9422. I enjoyed it so much. Years later as broke collage student, I sold that rifle. I had been sad about that for so long. When Winchester went out of business I made it a priority to hunt one down and buy it. last year I became the proud owner of a hardly used 1978 made Winchester 9422.
I just had to get that gun as it really had so much meaning for me. I will never sell it.
 
My first firearm was a Commission '88 expertly cut down to short rifle length. I traded it for something else 30+ years ago.

My first (and only) shotgun was a seven shot Ithaca Model 37 Deer Slayer Police Special. I still have that gun.

My first handgun was a Series 70 Colt. I still have that gun. Minus its iron sights and with a trigger job, it's my wadcutter .45 gun for three gun bullseye.
 
Yep...Have both the first gun (J.C. Higgins bolt action 20 ga.) that was passed down to me from my dad and the first firearm that I purchased my Ruger SR-9.
 
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