What was your first gun.

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My first gun all together was a Marlin .410 breakopen, that my father got me when I was 8. I no longer have it unfortunatly.

My first rifle was a WASR-3 when I was 15, once again my father got me. It was a CAI, and wouldn't cycle rounds, eventually traded it in towards a VZ-58.

The first guns I bought myself were a Yugo K98 and a Benelli Super Nova. Both I still have.
 
First I purchased was a Glock 17 about 10 years ago (1999). I sold it after six months since I couldn't hit the broadside of a barn with the darn thing. Picked up a 1911 and never looked back...
 
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For my 11th Birthday (1958) my dad bought me a brand spanking new Winchester 77, magazine model. Still have it but it's pretty much worn out. This gun put more meat on the table and rid the neighborhood of more varmits than you can imagine. Bullets were something like $0.45 a box, used to pick up beer bottles along the road and sell them for $0.02 ea just to fund the shooting habit.
 
First was an S&W Sigma 9mm. That pistol has never failed to chamber a round. And i've put plenty through it. I've got a friend interested in taking it off my hands. I'm considering it. Lately my S&W Model 19-4 has had my full attention. :)
 
I had an old JC Higgins .22 single shot bolt-action rifle handed down to me by my dad when I was about 10. Then I got a new Remington 870 Express 12 gauge for my 12th birthday. A few years later I inherited my dad's old JC Higgins/Husqvarna bolt-action .30-06. Around 16 I received a new Ruger P95 9mm handgun for a birthday present. But it wasn't until I was 25 that I actually bought my own firearm. It was a shiny new S&W 1911 .45. And yes, I still have it.
 
ruger gp101 (161) 357 mag

6" full shroud barrel, stainless hogue grips.

so sorry i sold it years ago...
 
Remington #512-A .22 Sportmaster Bolt-Action Tubular magazine I was given by my grandfather when I was about 14-16.

He had received a retirement gift of some fancy deer rifle & scope he would never used and traded that in for the 512 to scare blackbirds from his feeders, while he was in his living room.

That was the first gun I ever shot.

First I bought myself was a Glock 23 about 6 years ago.
 
Shot all my dad's guns when I was real young. The 1st I was ever to call my own was a Nylon 66. The 1st I ever bought on my own was a Revelation 12 ga pump from Western Auto in the mid 60's. I was only a teenager.
 
In 1975 my Mom bought me a Slavia .177 air rifle when I was fifteen. Within a few months I bought a (bigger/better) Gecado Model 25 .177 to add to the collection. My first 'real' gun was a NIB Winchester 9422 lever action that I saved up for & bought ($185) in January 1976. Later that same year I bought my first centerfire, a NIB Marlin 336T .30/30 lever action for $169 with 100 rounds of ammo.
 
First I shot was Grandpa's Mossberg 152. Sister has it now, but I have an identical one.

First guns I owned: FN49 and Ruger Mk 1; both bought in 1974 after I joined the USN. Both stolen in Charleston SC in 1977.
 
mossberg 500, bought brand new, was broken out of the box. sent to mossberg came back fixed with the bluing messed up. kept it cause i didnt want to miss hunting season. works great now I've had it 11 years
 
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, occsionally 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.


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The first gun I bought was a S&W Mod.19 with a 6" barrel. Still have it. Have not shot it in about 15 years.

My parents first gave me a Marlin lever action .22; later they gave me a Rem. 870 12ga for duck hunting.

My father started me shooting when I was about 5 with a Winchester gallery gun pump action .22 short. After a couple of years I was shooting the spent cases of the .22 short off of twigs offhand at 35'.
 
The first gun I bought was a Mossberg 835 12 Gauge shotgun. I liked it enough to buy another one later in life, but I pawned that one to support my traveling expenses when I was young and dumb (long-distance girlfriend). Stupid me. :(
 
first gun i ever shot was my dads old single-shot .22 marlin on my first trip to the range with my dad.
on that same first range trip, the first handgun i ever shot was a sig sauer p226 9mm which we rented.
i was 18 :rolleyes: :eek: :D.
thats how anti-gun my mom is... oh well, better late than never.

first gun i bought myself was an all black romanian ak with an underfolder :evil:;):D.

first shotgun i ever shot was my mossberg 500 12ga.
shot it the day i got it.
took it to the range along with the marlin .22 for my buddy's b-day.
those two were the first guns he ever shot :).
managed to pull that off while my parents were outa town.
 
My first gun was my dad's Winchester Model 56 .22 short-only, made in 1930. I still have that one. But the first gun I purchased for myself (for $91) was a Smith & Wesson Model 48 .22 magnum, 8 3/8" barrel, bought in 1970. What a great shooter that gun was.

But I ended up selling it a couple of years later so I could buy an Italian 10-speed bicycle in order to keep up with a fast and flashy redhead I was enamored of at the time. Needless to say, the 10-speed and the redhead are long gone. Sure wish I still had the model 48. :rolleyes:
 
Savage bolt action .30-30, my mom bought for me. 1st 1 I ever bought is an American made Luger in .22lr. I still have and shoot both of these.
 
First was a BB/pellet gun, purchased in 1984. I was 18, and it was/is a Marksman 1010. Good for safety training, but not much else. Still have it.
First "bullet-firing" gun was a CVA Remington New Army revolver in 44 caliber, purchased later in 1984. I still have it, but never got around to firing it.
First "modern" firearm was a Winchester 190 rifle in .22LR, sold to me by my stepfather in 1986. I gave it to his son later that year when my stepfather died.
First firearm I picked out myself was a Ruger 10/22, to replace the Winnie, also in 1986. I still have it.
First handgun was a Taurus 66 in .357 Magnum, purchased in 1987, two days after my 21st birthday. I still have it.
 
My first gun was a Diana pellet rifle that my dad gave to me when I was 10. But the first real gun I bought was a Ruger Bearcat. I bought it the day I turned 16, which was legal in Calif, then. I paid $36 for the gun. It was amazingly accurate.

I traded it to a guy for something that I cannot recall, but I sure miss that pistol. I could really shoot that thing. I used to shoot pebbles with it. I won bets with that little pistol.

I bought another Bearcat years later, but couldn't hit the broad side of a barn with it. That one I happily sold off.
 
My first gun purchased was a Mossberg 500 20 gauge with a long barrel. I shot a lot of skeet with that sucker, needless to say the collection has grown since then.
 
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