You ever got someone a gun as a gift?

[armedwalleye]

The gun Christmas

In 1981 I was going to college full time and working full time as well, having secured full time work that fall. For Christmas I bought my dad and I a paid of 870 Wingmasters. He opened the first one and I told him I'd made a mistake on the tag...it was supposed to be my gun and I had mislabled it.. I thought he was gonna cry.
I gave him a different shaped box and told him this was the present I intended to give him. He opened that gun, then he did cry. We still call it the "gun Christmas".
Gave my niece a .22 when she passed gun safety. She now deer hunts with me.
Gave my wife a really sweet bottom eject Browning BPS 20 ga.
Did I mention its a bottom eject and I'm left handed?? Merely a coincidence...

 

[bushmaster1313]

Guns I buy are gifts for myself.
My one material indulgence.

 

[WoodchuckAssassin]

As shameful as it may be, I've received more than I've given. My dad has been all too kind with passing on firearms. I like his philosophy: "I know you'll shoot the hell outta'em and keep'em clean, so you might as well take'm."

He and I love passing on and retaining history. Every gun has a story going back at least 40 years, and there's no price tag that can beat that.

 

[Delford]

So true W...A...
I was 62 when I got my CCP and my first handgun. For my 63rd Bday my son bought me a 1929 Mosin Nagant and 440 rounds of 7.62x54r. I had lost my job 2 months before and was going to buy them but decided to hold off to see if things would improve. It was a great surprise. Now I'm 67 and I shoot regularly with a .22 LR Neos, the Mosin and my Ruger P345. My shooting has improved with practice and eye surgery. I suspect his son is heir to my hardware.

 

[RandyC]

A single shot Stevens .410 on my 12th birthday. A looooong time ago.

 

[bangswitch]

I've given one gun as a gift, and received two.

When I was 10 and going into Boy Scouts, a friend of my Dad gave me a Model 510 Remington Targetmaster that he'd had for about twenty years. As that was back around 1964, I suppose the rifle had been made in the mid-'40s. It shot straight and true, I earned my marksmanship merit badge with that rifle. At the time I got it, I didn't know squat about guns except learning to shoot them.

The second gun I received was my step uncle's Colt 1903 Hammerless Pocket Pistol in .32 Auto. I got it from my stepdad just before he died in 2000, and later found out my step uncle had been a Lt.Col. in Patton's 3rd Army. I still have it, all nice and wrapped up and stored away, But I've shot it many times before I knew its value.

The gun I have given as a gift is the Model 510 Remington Targetmaster .22 rifle that I got as a gift when I was 10. I have daughters, they don't care about shooting; I gave the rifle to the son of a very close friend of mine, who is now passed away. His son was going into the Boy Scouts and had a keen interest in shooting but did not at the time own a gun. I figured it was a good "pass it forward" gift, one Boy Scout to another. This was about 20 years ago, and the boy eventually made Eagle Scout, something I never achieved. (I got as far as Star, and then discovered girls. :banghead

I sure wish I'd known what those Targetmasters bring today. I'd have gone out and bought the kid something else, and kept the Remington.