What was your first rifle?

[dscottw88]

Ruger 10/22

 

[neapoi]

 

[young hunter]

1st ruger 10/22 for completing hunters safety when I was 11
2nd ruger m77 270

 

[kamagong]

A CZ-452 Trainer. I know a bit boring, but it's a good gun.

 

[Threejs]

.50 CVA St Loius Hawken Percussion rifle.

Second was a 1940 VKT M91 mosin

 

[Rorke's Drift]

Savage/Stevens Model 89 single shot .22 lr. It looks like a Winchester 92, but has a Martini style falling block. Got it for my 10th birthday, and still have it. The first rifle I bought on my own was a 10-22, followed quickly by a Marlin 336. Great memories of all of them.

 

[hotlead]

Daisy BB gun at 6 years of age.

 

[littlegator]

win 94-32 in .32 ws I inherited from my pop.

 

[Wolfgang2000]

A Marlin "auto-safe" 22 single shot on my 10th birthday. The first I bought myself was a Remington 700 30-06 left handed bolt.

 

[Auburn1992]

A single shot .22lr/.410 Rossi combo. My first centerfire was a Marlin 30-30

 

[ExSoldier]

Mossberg 22LR "youth model" bolt action single shot. I was so little my dad had to get a gunsmith to saw down the butt and reattach the rubber heel plate. Had a rear peep sight and a hooded front sight.

 

[Jubjub]

Another Remington 514, a Christmas gift when I was 11 or 12. Had it out a few weeks ago, and it still makes me grin.

 

[bannockburn]

My first rifle was a Ruger 10/22, purchased new nearly thirty years ago. Still one of the most accurate and trouble-free rifles I have ever owned.

 

[Hertzfeld]

Thompson Center .22 Classic

 

[Soap]

First rifle that was actually "mine" was my Remington 700BDL in .270 Win. I got it for Christmas the same year I turned 13.

 

[RancidSumo]

Remington Model 12 22LR

 

[Ringer]

Ruger 10/22

Not all that long ago but when they were going for $139.

 

[tbtrout]

Single shot Savage .22

 

[tubeshooter]

Marlin 60 (I bet this is true for many! )


Centerfire: Marlin 336 in 30-30

 

[mek42]

1st rifle - 10/22
1st centerfire rifle - Savage with an AccuTrigger, stainless hvy bbl, laminated wood stock in 308. I think it was a 12 BVSS, but this model is not currently advertised for 308. It still shoots better than I do.

 

[sacp81170a]

Stevens and Springfield 86C .22

 

[retgarr]

SKS. I didn't grow up shooting, I bought my own first rifle

 

[RickH]

Marlin model 60. A present from my Grandfather. He bought it on sale at Big 5 for $49.99 in 1988. I had just turned 16. My folks aren't wild about guns, Gramps thought that was crap, so we secretly kept it at his apartment until I turned 18. Fortunately he was not far away and on the way to where my friends and I went to shoot. The least expensive gun I own, but it has the most sentimental value.

 

[jkingrph]

Marlin 39a Dad bought for me when I was in second grade in 1952.

 

[tyjax]

Winchester Model 69A .22