What's your Senior Shootin' Iron?

[OOOXOOO]

Glock 19, I love it and would not part with it for anything. My first gun was a Russian SKS that was beautiful bought it for $60. I still can't belive I sold it.

 

[bmitchell]

I'm not too sure on the timeline here but my first is either a Sears & Roebuck break action 12 gauge
or a Sears & Roebuck .22 pump. Cheap optics added and it is a tack driver.
Both were given to me by my father long ago.
I'd buy them again.

 

[bshepherd]

My first gun I bought for myself was this Browning HP35 in .40 S&W in 1995. I love it and would absolutely by it again. I might go for a blued version or the Practical however.

 

[The Lone Haranguer]

1. Ruger "old model" Blackhawk .45 convertible, since 1996. The gun was made c. 1971, so it is my oldest in terms of age as well.

2. Not at today's prices.

 

[lilguy]

Ruger Security Six 38/357, when I turned 21, 37 years ago. Great gun.

 

[waterhouse]

They both came close together, and I don't honestly recall which one came first, but I think the order was Marlin 39A then Ithaca 37.

They were gifts, but I would certainly pay money for them today if they weren't already part of the collection.

 

[h0ss]

Kahr E9. It's been faithful since the day i bought it. Very smooth and reliable. Yes i would buy it all over again. Or maybe i would get the all stainless model next time. Basically the same gun.

 

[beaucoup ammo]

S&W Model 65-3 / "K" Frame .357 / SS / 3 in.

Purchased in February of '87. Made in '85 Still have receipt! Shoots as well as she did 21 years ago. Bad photos...just shot 'em.

 

[Snapping Twig]

My third year of High School in 1972, I bought a 10/22, still have it and it's a tack driver.

 

[T.R.]

I still have the Stevens 22 rifle Dad hunted with when he was a boy.

I almost bought a Savage 99 in .358 back in 1980 for $250. But didn't because the clerk said it would kick bad. Now they're going for well over $1,0000. YIKES!
TR

 

[Mac45]

Oldest is a Stevens .410 SxS my dad gave me when I was around 5 or so.

 

[mortdooley]

The gun I have owned the longest would be my Remington 550-1 .22rf that I got for Christmas from my folks when I was 17. The handgun I bought and have owned the longest is a Colt Frontier Six Shooter 44-40 made in 1884, I rebarreled it, added a .44Spl cylinder, replaced internal parts and ejector housing and cold blued it. This may sound like a real screw up but not in the 1970s, I followed the example of Skeeter Skelton and made what the factory didn't. If I could afford to do it again I wouldn't only because It would be too valuable to change. However a new factory .44 special would be nice to have.

 

[dvcrsn]

My first gun was a Winchester m1917 Enfield--you better believe I would buy it again

 

[Hokkmike]

Beretta O/U 12 gauge.

Absolutely, yes on the do-over.

 

[Brian Williams]

Sears Bolt action 22lr, Made by Winchester, Bought in 1972 and No I would not purchase another. I should have bought the Marlin 39 Mountie that I was looking at in the Western Auto. I have purchased a Marlin Mountie since.

 

[hemiram]

My Beretta 950 Jetfire is my senior gun, I sold all my others over the years, but it stayed.
I bought a Bernardelli P018 pmm back in 94, and still have it.

The Dan Wesson 715 I bought a couple years ago is the oldest of my "new" used guns.

 

[Ala Dan]

Question #1- Smith & Wesson 2" .32 S&W Long model 30-1; my
deceased fathers personal defense weapon of choice.

Question #2- YES, cuz I bought it NIB for him in 1971~!

 

[hockeybum]

My .22lr bolt action. It was my great great grandad's. Over 100 years old. We're not sure though cause my dad had it reblued when he was 15 and we think the serial numbers are under the bluing. We took it to a gunsmith and he took it apart and cleaned it and said he couldnt find any serial numbers but that he figured it was from the late 1800's!!! It is a winchester though. The gun is dead on accurate. Pull trigger, gun goes bang, bullet hits where your aiming. What more could you ask for? 'Bout time we put the gun up in a glass display case...

 

[230RN]

Hockeybum: Lots of pre-Gun Control Act of 1968 (GCA68) .22s didn't have serial numbers. Not required back then.

 

[CajunBass]

The oldest I've got is a Sears-Roebuck 12 ga Pump (by Mossberg). I got it at Sears about 1976 or so. Paid $99.000 for it with two barrels.

I've still got my first gun, but it's at my sons house now. An Ithaca M-66 "Supersingle" 20 ga. Santa bought me that one about 1966 or so.

I'd buy either or both of them in a heartbeat again.

 

[smokemaker]

Remington 572 BDL pump .22, purchased at 14 (with Dad's help for legal reasons) with my own money... and yes, I'd but it again, even at todays prices. (I bought the gun for $180 in 1988.)

It's nowhere near the oldest one I've got though... just the one I've had the longest. The oldest is a Winchester low wall in .32-20, mfg date 1889.

 

[Eric F]

I have my great grandfathers model 8 remington in 30 remington and his J Stevens side by side double 20 gague

 

[mavracer]

10/22 and already have

 

[SgtWaldo]

Senior Gun in the house.

Winchester model 67. It was my Granddads, my Dads, and now mine. My Grandson will get it. Fine shooter to this day!
SgtWaldo

 

[SundownRider]

Winchester 94 in 45LC

Reliable as hell. shoots like it has radar.