Your first Firearm ?

[Eightball]

Firsts....

First Rifle: rebarralled Spanish Mauser M1916, for .308 (only $100! )
First Autoloader: Ruger 10/22
First Shotgun: American Western Arms side-by-side .410
First Handgun: Iver Johnson 55SA Cadet (.22 snub revolver)
First Black-Powder: Remington 1858 .36 cal.

 

[Cesiumsponge]

First firearm: Saiga 12 semi-automatic sporting shotgun. Modified it into a "home offense" assault shotgun AK-clone. Did all my own work (cutting holes in receiver for a new relocated fire control group, cutting receiver tangs, filing work, rigging up some internals, etc) and put much blood, sweat (and dollars) into iit. I consider it personal and mine forever; I don't think I could ever part with it even if someone gave me well above fair-market value.

Anyone else feel a bond with their "first" firearm, or perhaps those that you've turned into a labor of love?

 

[Stevie-Ray]

Stevens 5 shot bolt .22. 37 years ago. Still have it, and it's still dazzlingly accurate. One of my several reasons I love shooting .22.

 

[Kramer Krazy]

First "gun" - Daisey "Champion 99" (age 7)
First "real" gun - Ruger 10/22 (age of 13)
First handgun - Colt 1911 stainless (21st b-day present to myself)

I still have all of these guns in my safe.

 

[A Cleaner]

1st...870 Express
2nd...870 Express HD
3rd...870 Wingmaster

What pattern?

 

[Beav]

Bought a Glock 21 from a friend, never shot it and sold it back to him about a year later. Finally got to shoot it about a year after that and it was a great shooter. The first gun I actually owned and shot was a Steyr M40.

 

[GunGeek]

Walther P99

 

[TechBrute]

First rifle was a Remington Nylon 66 as an 8th birthday present. It was stolen from my parents house a few years back.

First handgun was a Ruger MkII for my 12th birthday. Still have it and it has several hundred thousand rounds through it.

First rifle was a Savage 12FV. I won it at a Friends of NRA event.

 

[foghornl]

Hmmmm

Several Daisy ariguns as a kid..

First long gun was "Pops" [grandfather] Savage/Stevens 94B 16Ga shotgun
First .22LR was a Rem Nylon 66
First personally owned centerfire handgun was a New Model Blackhawk .357 6-1/2" barrel
First shotty I bought was a Rem "Sportsman" 20 Ga

 

[1911 guy]

My first gun

I saved my shekels and bought a H&R Topper model 20 ga. when I was about 9. Dad never let me have a BB gun, he said kids do dumb stuff they'd never do with a real gun. He was probably right. BTW, still remember that I paid 43 dollars for that shotgun, 2 boxes of shells, and an Ohio hunting license. A few years later my grandfather gave me a remington 580 (.22lr) that belonged to my late uncle.

 

[dfaugh]

Well...

First I had a Crossman, "pump up" pellet gun...

But first "real" gun was a single shot Winchester bolt gun (no idea what model)

Followed shortly thereafter by a Mossberg 500 in 20 gauge

And a bit later, a Winchester Model 70 lightweight in .270

 

[MountainPeak]

Marlin single shot .22. Has the ring cocker and a gold trigger. I still have it, and plan on getting it totally reconditioned some day. I bought it 41 years ago. I believe the model # is 101. It doesn't have a serial number. Anyone know somebody(that's good) that can work on an old beat up gun, that is loved, and treasured? Let me know. Added: By the way, I didn't beat it up. I let my brother use it, he let his son, who obviously didn't give a ???? about taking care of it, use it. When I asked for it's return they didn't know where it was. I finally run across it several years later. They had stuck it behind the seat of an abandoned pickup on his farm. I'm still pissed!!

 

[TimothyL]

Sig Trailside .22

 

[duck_god827]

First Gun

Shotgun-1300 Winchester
Rifle-Ruger 10/22
Pistol-Styer 40 cal.

Still use the Winchester for deer and turkey, and the Ruger for rabbits and tree rats. Sold the Styer to get a .357 Dan Wession revoler for my wife.

 

[Bostonterrier97]

Swedish Mauser

 

[Justang]

HK USP40.

5000 rounds through it, not one malfunction. Not even so much as a hiccup. Point and shoot. Perfect!

 

[Hardware]

Japanese 7.7 Arisaka that someone had "sporterized." they cut the stock back to the second barrell band and removed the anti-aircraft sites. Bought it for $50 off my brother in law. It was an early production, but it had the chrysanthemum ground off. Which almost guaranteed that it was turned in at the end of the war. Flat shooter, tight groups. A great rifle, too bad it was about a buck a shot back in the early 80's. Traded it for a motorcycle.

 

[CAS700850]

My first firearm was some unknwon brand .22 single shot bolt rifle. Can't check the make, because my brother has it, using it to teach his daughter. My first handgun, I bought one week after turning 21, a Smith 422. Still have it. Needs repair, but won't get rid of it. First centerfire was a Smith 586 6" revolver. Still have that one, too.

 

[Colt46]

Ruger 10/22

Still have it. Fantastic piece of engineering.

 

[Evil_Ed]

First firearm of any type: Crossman Pellet gun
First real firearm I ever shot: Dad's S&W .38
First firearm I bought for myself: Taurus 5 shot revolver for home defense when I moved out of my parents house. Great little gun and I should never have let my wife talk me into selling it (was condition placed on my purchasing a Kel Tec P3AT).
First longarm purchased for myself: Rossi 20 gauge coachgun (bought it because we had one growing up and I wanted one for the wife to use for home defense and/or for me to use in SASS).

 

[Myself]

Dad wouldn't let us kids have firearms so when I turned 18 I went out and got my own. Went haves with a friend named Tom on a Winchester mod. 190 .22 S/A tube gun. We put about 25K rounds through that gun over the next year. First centerfire was Tom's Uncles 30-30 Model 94 (an old one). I bought that from Tom along with his half interest in the .22 because he wanted a 6MM Remington for some reason.

Later purchased first handgun which was a Sterling .22. Accurate to about 24" at a range of 10' and only fired when it was in the mood.

First shotgun was an 870 wingmaster.

Still have them all except the Sterling which some fool stole during a house robery in 1980.