What was your first hunting shotgun?

[medicine calf]

I started with a Sears Ted Williams 410 break-open single shot. I seem to recall it was a Stevens, but am not quite sure. It took me two years to graduate to a Beretta side-by-side. The first time out, at the end of the day I was allowed to shoot a dove in a tree, or I would have suffered coming home empty-handed.

 

[Frog48]

Mossberg Maverick. A few years later I moved to a Mossberg 835, and nowadays a Remington SPR-453 autoloader.

 

[bang_bang]

Mossberg pump .410. Great little squirrel gun. Also very effective on the occasional water snake.

 

[shiftyer1]

An ancient H&r 12.ga breakopen single shot. 12 ga. is probably not the best learning shotgun for a young child but it was all we had. I still have never fired any smaller bore shotgun although I just bought a 20 ga

 

[mp510]

H&R .410 pardner.

 

[fireman 9731]

an over under savage 22/410. quite a squirrel gun!

 

[possum]

remingto 1100 20ga

 

[flyboy1788]

remington 870 youth 20ga

 

[Ridgerunner665]

The first one I ever hunted with was my Grandads Victor Special 16 gauge single shot.

The first one I ever owned was a H&R 20 gauge single shot...I still have both.

 

[Almond27]

Mossberg 500A shouldn't have sold it either Oh well.

 

[Sinixstar]

Dad's old Ithaca Model 37 in 20.
Had an older brother that was using it before me, so dad went out and got a 12ga 37 for him, and put the 20 in my hands.
After about a week, we switched.

 

[Nikon Shooter]

This brings back some memories...

It was a cheap little single shot .410 - I'm not even sure what the make was on the little gun...

I'll never forget my dad taking me hunting the first time... We were squirrel hunting and pop seen a couple squirrels in a tree as we were walking... We sat on an old ceder that had fallen over and dad said they would be out "in a few minutes". Well, after what seemed like an eternity (I was convinced he had lost his mind, and there was nothing up that darn tree) here they come racing down the side of the tree... I'm fumbling with the .410 trying to get it mounted and dad is saying, "shoot him, shoot him" well one of the little critters froze, and I killed my first grey squirrel.

Dad gave the little .410 to my sister for her son (my little nephew). I can only hope it brings him half the fond memories it has for me.... Next time I am over there I am going to see who even made that little gun... For the life of me, I cannot remember right now.

 

[nitetrane98]

First hunt was with a Mississippi Valley Arms (Crescent) double barrel .410. My grandfather's.
My first owned was Remington 1100 12ga.

 

[sm]

I started shotguns at age 5 with a single shot 28 gauge.
Clay targets and game fell with that shotgun that year as well.

I even had round ball slugs for my shotgun, just like mentors used in their 28 ga shotguns...

 

[Dave McCracken]

H&R 16 gauge.

 

[22lr]

Mossberg 500 12ga. Just used it again to take another deer. Great gun that packs a huge punch.

 

[Mp7]

Fox Savage 16 gauge......
...and the appalachian state forest was right behind the house

 

[Will Fennell]

Winchester

Winchester Model 37 20 ga single shot....same one my father learned to wingshoot with when he was a kid.....and yup, I've still got it

 

[foghornl]

Savage/Stevens Mdl 94B 16-Ga. single shot, with that "Tenite" stock/forend. It was a fairly lightweight shotgun...serious thumper on both ends.

 

[robsc]

MY first shotgun was my dad`s. Remington M11 12gauge with polychoke. I could hit doves with it all day long. I shot quail from the hip when covey would explode upward.
Some buttheads broke into our house Monday evening February 3, 1969 and stole that M11 and a Rem. M700ADL 22-250 that I had bought about 6 weeks earlier. I had ordered a scope from Herter`s and it hadn`t come yet.

 

[Onmilo]

My first bought with my own money and owned by me shotgun was an Ithaca 66 lever open 12 guage single shot.

Before that it was great fun to make me use the Iver Johnson White Powder Wonder 12 guage single shot headache maker.

 

[RUT]

Winchester Model 12. (in 1958)

 

[TedP]

My father showed me the ropes of small game hunting with a High Standard Flite King 28 gauge. When I was in high school, I bought myself an 11-87. I don't think the old man ever liked the Remington, but he humored me.

I still have that 28 gauge. Still in excellent condition.

 

[oletymer]

My grandfather gave me a Parker 12ga double. The first one I bought was a Ithaca 37 12 ga.

 

[Bud Tugly]

The first shotgun I bought for myself was a Sears 12 gauge single shot bolt action probably made by Mossberg or Savage. It was an overweight monstrosity that I later traded for a Stevens .410 break open single shot. I shot a lot of grouse and rabbits with that little .410 and still have it.

The first gun I ever hunted with was my Dad's 20 gauge Mossberg 85A, and I still have that, too.