The first gun you ever shot

[ZMP_CTR]

What was the first gun you ever shot?

How old were you?

I was eight years old on the riverbank in Kansas. I remember it was my Grandpa's .357. If I remember correctly, it was too much gun for an eight year old.

 

[jkingrph]

Abour 4. Dad held me in his lap and let me pull the trigger on a Colt Woodsman, and like above on a river(bayou) bank.

 

[1911RjB]

Mine too was a .357.. It was my grandfathers duty pistol, while he was a LEO.. I believe I was 12 or 13..

 

[Spot77]

Colt Delta Elite in 10mm

I don't remember exactly how old I was. I was a teenager. Late 80's I think.

 

[col_tapiocca]

Glock 17, it's my first own pistol.
I was 20 years old. My dad don't like gun, so I have to buy my own to shoot.

 

[esq_stu]

Daisy spring action BB gun, 9 years old.

 

[Kcustom45]

S&W 422 I was about 4. I remember shooting at a steel squirrel target and hitting it 2 or 3 times on the 10 round mag. I was very pleased with myself.

 

[5ptdeerhunter]

The first gun I ever shot was as far as I can remember was a semi automatic 9mm. It belonged to one of my dad's hunting buddies. I want to say I was around 5 or 6. I remember stepping up towards the target with my dad kneeling behind me him helping me support the gun in my hands as we pulled the trigger together. The next year I got my first BB gun.

 

[lg&m]

I am having a hard time remembering the first one I shot. The first gun that was "mine" was a Remington 512 bolt action .22 it was my mothers from about 1945 I got it when her dad passed. I still have it and so will my son someday. Hopefully not for a wile. I was about 12 at the time.

 

[gggman]

I was about 7 or 8, and it was a bolt action .22 rifle. My grandfather took me to the dump to shoot rats. This was in the early 60's when such activities were still possible.

 

[Samuel Adams]

I was about 12 or 13 when my dad took me out with the 16 guage Mossberg bolt action shotgun he had as a kid. He still has it.

 

[They Call Me 'E']

I was 18 and at USMC recruit training

Zero training to expert rifleman.

 

[DesertDawg]

A Winchester model 69-A, which is a bolt-action .22 rifle with a detachable box magazine. That was way back in 1951, when I was 5 years old, and I was finally allowed to "kill" some tin cans in the desert. That was after what seemed like "years" of training from my dad, but I'm now glad that he took the time and was so thorough. That same rifle was mine on my 6th birthday, and I still have it and shoot it. I also still have the original receipt for it....$17 (new)! I also bought my very first box of ammo when I was 6 years old...11 cents for a box of 50 rounds of .22LR.

 

[DiN_BLiX]

Ruger 10/22, I was 10 years old. I few minute later we moved on to the rem 742 30-06, that one hurt, but i hit the target.

 

[eric.cartman]

PA. Pokono Mountains. Shooting range. 1911

I was 24 at the time. It was 3 years ago. That day I understood...

 

[Scoupe]

A girl (my cousin, older by maybe 6 years) taught me to shoot with a Stevens Favorite .22 rifle when I was 10.

 

[Bad Penny 03]

Red Ryder (4.5 x4.5mm/ caseless) - 8
[first centerfire] Colt Gold Cup 1911A1 series 80 .45ACP - teenager.
230gr Hardball. I remember being :
1. Amazed at the lack of recoil
2. Annoyed at gun myths from then on out.

Curiously, I have never had "enough" ammo since.
damn addiction...

 

[wilson]

I was about 8, semi auto .22 with a scope. I dont know what kind it was.

 

[Bud Tugly]

I remember my dad crouching down while shouldering his 20 gauge Mossberg and letting me pull the trigger a few times. I must have been about 5 or so. When I was around 8 he would let me shoulder the gun and fire at a tin can or tree stump once in a while. I used to walk with him gunless while he was hunting and he always made me follow a few steps behind.

I had several BB rifles and pistols at an early age, but the first "real" gun that I owned and shot by myself was a JC Higgins single shot bolt action .22 when I was around 12 or so. My buddies and I often used to just sling our rifles over our shoulders and ride our bikes through town to the town dump to shoot rats. Imagine the reaction that would generate these days.

 

[eventer289]

I was 18 and it was some 20 guage of my friends.

 

[Blackbeard]

My Dad's Ruger Mark II. I was probably 12.

 

[Cooperdisciple]

Marlin 39. My Dad tells me I was about four (that was 1958). I sure don't remember and kind of wonder how a small child could manage it. I must have had a little "help". He sure put me on the right road, though. Thanks Dad!!!

 

[Joey_the_Wolf]

The first real gun I ever shot was when a family friend, an older gentleman, took me to the range for the first time. It was when I recently turned 18 (about 4 years ago). It was an H&K VP-70z. When he pulled it out, I thought "hey cool, it's Leon's gun from Resident Evil 2, and the Marine pistol from Aliens". After shooting it I wondered how they could hit anything in those movies with that 20+ lbs, creepy DAO trigger pull, although I didn't do half bad with it. I also thought it was huge for a 9mm. The 18 round magazines impressed me, especially since they looked like SMG mags (you pushed the rounds directly in through the top, like a rifle or SMG magazine, which made loading easy) but my finger was sore after about 2 mags worth. Again, horrible trigger but it was a very unique pistol that I want to buy one day, just for the nostalgia and collectability.

Now... it was the second gun I ever fired that made me fall in love. That gun was a genuine, real deal WWII issue GI pistol. Ithica slide and I believe a Remington Rand frame. I loved it, and a RIA GI replica 1911 was the first pistol I bought when I turned 21

 

[GBExpat]

I think that I was about 7 ... BA .22 at my maternal grandfather's farm (I now live in a house on the west side of that farm) ... Mom & Dad used to bring us up here at least twice a year.

 

[Viking6]

I think I was about 12 and it was either a friend's 410 shotgun or single shot 22 bolt action. We did not have guns in the house growing up. My father was an Infantryman in the Pacific during WWII and had seen as much of guns that he needed. Later in life, when I was out of the house, he had a bolt action, tubed magazined 22.