What Was Your First Handgun?

[bulbboy]

A $79 Davis .380!! It jammed every other shot!!

 

[Black Majik]

Tie now!

Colt Government was my first.

 

[MikeJ]

My first was a .22 Hi Standard Sport King. That was quickly followed by a Browning Hi Power.

 

[CAnnoneer]

Ruger KP89 (stainless 9mm). I love it!

 

[one45auto]

Colt Police Positive Mk V .38 Special. It was only in the Colt lineup for about a year. Wish I'd bought two.

 

[robvious]

My first was a S&W 19 4", I still have it. I don't get to shoot it much, but it always hits where I point it. It was a present from my father and I wouldn't trade it for anything.

 

[22-rimfire]

H&R 999 Sportsman. (9-shot break top 22 revolver). Gave it to my Dad a while back. Didn't shoot it anymore. The second handgun was a 4" Colt Diamondback 22. "X" kept it. SOB

 

[DukeNukem]

Ruger Standard .22

Never really developed a fondness for that pistol even though it was my first.

 

[ARTiger]

Colt Woodsman .22 - 1975 vintage. I can still shoot it better than any gun I've ever owned.

 

[amprecon]

4" Stainless, full barrel lug GP100 .357

 

[RichieV]

9mm EAA Witness. I traded it away...kinda wish I still had it.

--Richard

 

[Braden]

Ruger P-90. I bought it while I was in college...the day I turned 21. Keep your stinkin' beer...let me have a handgun.

It was actually the first SA I had ever shot...or even held for that matter. I walked into Champion Firearms in College Station, Texas and said I wanted to buy a reliable but inexpensive .45 and asked what they suggested. A little while later I walked out with the gun and a box of Cor-Bon ammo (not really knowing what to do with either). I had to actually READ the owner's manual just to figure out how to operate the thing.

I went to a local range and for $30 or so the owner of the range gave me a little one on one beginner's handgun class. That, my friends, is how I got started in the world of handguns.

 

[lebshiff21]

Ruger GP100 6" Stainless

 

[rbmcmjr]

S&W 4506

 

[akviper]

Ruger Super Single Six with both 22 & 22 mag cylinders circa 1966 or so. I wanted an auto but my dad nixed it because "it would waste ammo." I still managed to burn up a bunch of 22's anyway.

 

[KC&97TA]

Beretta 92F, with 5- 15 round mags - $200

she wasn't pretty, but she'd shoot strait enough to leave in the trunk of the car

 

[hank327]

A 1911A1 given to me to use by my Uncle Sugar. Later on my first handgun purchase was a Colt 1911A1 Series 70 Government Model in .45 ACP just like the one my Uncle let me use.

 

[Mal H]

My first was a Ruger Standard Model. Some now call them a Mark I, but it was only called the Standard Model "back then".

Second was a Browning Hi-Power.

 

[HammerBite]

My first was an S&W Model 48 NIB for $75 in 1963. All Smiths were $75 in 1963. I should have bought guns instead of a car or a house!

I have shot the daylights out of the 48 and the finish still looks like the gun was made of glass and I still have to look under a good light to see the outline of the sideplate.

 

[Scott77]

My first was a FEG High Power copy . Fairly good gun

 

[SRFL]

My first handgun was a Browning High Power Mark II in 9mm. I purchased it in 1985 or 1986....I don't recall when, for just under $500.

A month after purchasing it, I sent it to Trijicon for night sights (long dead now) and to Bill Laughridge at Cylinder and Slide for some work. It's fired thousands of rounds; went to Massad Ayoob's LFI-I and II; and....more importantly....is still in my possession.

I went to the SHOT Show '06 where I purchased a Bar Sto match barrel for it and spoke to Mr. Laughridge to let him know that I was going to send the 'ol girl back to him to get some major work done...including installing that barrel.

After that, I intend to send thousands of more rounds through her.

 

[larry starling]

1st handgun was a Sig-226 bought it instead of a Colt delta.....

 

[CajunBass]

Smith & Wesson, Model 19 Combat Magnun. I had seen a picture of one on the cover of Guns and Ammo magazine a few years before and just KNEW that was what a handgun was supposed to look like.

I traded it off like an idiot. :banghead:

 

[osteodoc08]

A Ruger P-89 that I still have and refuse to part with, even though I now have others that I shoot more often. It is nice to take it out to the range every now and then.

 

[dpesec]

Mine was a Colt Diamondback. Love that little gun