What was your first rifle?

[serrano]

A Red Ryder of course!

Then a Glenfield Model 25 .22, a Marlin 336 .30-30, and a Kel-Tec SU-16CA .223

 

[LeibstandarteAdH]

first rifle was an Arisaka type 99 one of my dead grandparents gave me, first "rifle" i ever bought was a Cobray M-11/9 with the carbine upper and removable Zytel stock. It was the bomb, wish i still had it.

 

[dvcrsn]

Roughly in order
1. Winchester M1917 2. Ruger 10/22 3. Winchester 94 30/30 5. Ruger Deerstalker (their first semiauto 44mag)
no particular order--M1 (also winchester), SMLE4, Winchester 94 (lawman commemorative), Marlin lever (44mag), mini14, Romi SKS

 

[Logan5]

The Winchester 1890, in .22 short. No, I wasn't the first owner, but it wasn't 100 years later either.

 

[blkbrd666]

Ithaca m-49 .22 lever action single-shot.

 

[Colorado]

1st: .30 cal M1 Carbine
2nd: (same week) 10/22 w/ stamped barrel "1776-1976 made in the year of the bicentennial"

very sad...sold both.

 

[longdayjake]

I traded my first car, a 1983 buick riviera with no reverse and got about 11 miles to the gallon for a model 70 25-06 that was beat all to heck. I have since taken off the bushnell scope and replaced it with a leupold, and refinished the stock and cold blued the barrel. It looks better than new to me and shoots very tiny groups. I have shot it the least of all my others though because of the rare round. Just got into reloading so she came back out to play last week.

 

[KodeFore]

M16a1

 

[azhunter12]

10/22 here. Next was a mosin m38

 

[Nikdfish]

Dad's Winchester 62a gallery pump .22, became mine as a birthday present at age 13

...the '50s daisy red-ryder doesn't count 'cause it was a smooth bore ;-)

Nick

 

[cracked butt]

Ithaca Model 49 that my dad picked up used at a garage sale. Shot tens of thousands of rounds through that singleshot, my thumbnail was always worn down to a sore bleeding stump from extracting the spent casings. The front sight was drifted all the way to the left and it still shot to the left, so I learned a lot about 'kentucky windage'.

My next rifle was a brand new remington 581- still have it.

 

[GearHead_1]

My first rifle was a Savage Model 99 in .308. I still have it and it's in remarkable condition, vintage early 50's production. My father found it for me when I was a teen ager, I've had it for 33 years.

 

[BillinNH]

A Daisy Red Ryder air rifle that shot dirt cheap BBs when I was eleven.

When I was fourteen my Grandpa died and left me his Savage model 1903 pump action takedown rimfire that took shorts, longs (remember them ?) and long rifles interchangeably. 24 inch octagon barrel and a seven shot detachable box magazine.

The Daisy just wore out and eventually got tossed. I kept the Savage until sometime in college when I stupidly sold it to buy some food or beer or something. Decades later I found one at a gunshow and I still have that.

 

[GearHead_1]

I read this thread and interpreted it as meaning high power rifle and answered accordingly. I had a couple of .22's and BB gun long before I had a .308.

 

[Acheron]

My first rifle was a Handi in .30-30. Then came the 91/30, M24/47, the Enfield, and so on.


The first rifle I ever bought was a Yugo SKS.

 

[Dirtypacman]

Bushmaster AR

 

[AR-15 Rep]

I started with the red ryder BB gun at 5, and let me tell ya.....the birds were scared.... but the lever action on that thing was a process back then. Next was the Winchester model 94 30/30.

 

[RockyMtnTactical]

10/22

 

[rbernie]

Marlin 336 in 30/30.

 

[BeJaRa]

Ithaca model 49 22 LR, I still have it and it still shoots damn good.

 

[Kernel]

Marlin 336 in .30-30. Bought it at a pawn shop in Kileen, Tx, for $125. Hide it in my wall locker on Ft. Hood for a year and a half. Never did get caught. That was 25 years ago and I still have it. -- Kernel

 

[Navy joe]

.22 Benjamin air rifle. Destroyed seals experimenting with how many pumps will it hold/alternative projectiles/chemical projection.

First real gun a .22 single shot rifle.

First gun I bought myself, Colt AR-15 in 1994. Way to go Bill Clinton, keeping the gun owners oppressed.

 

[mavracer]

red ryder first first real gun 10/22 I know boring. but they're 35 and 30 years old and I still have them .

 

[Bud Tugly]

Western Auto single shot bolt-action .22 I bought with my paper route money when I was about 11.

 

[44AMP]

First rifle of my own?

Winchester model 250 lever action .22 (rimfire) age 14 (birthday present)
Remington model 600 bolt action .308 Win (centefire) age 16 (gift from my Father for deer hunting)

Not the first guns I ever shot by a long shot, but the first one I got to keep as mine. I still have that Remington.