Your First Gun...Still Got It?

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When I was 4th Grade I went to a friends birthday party. His family name was Koff and they were quite German. Among my freinds possessions was his grandfathers Luger. I had of course seen them in movies and always though they were cool but this was my first "up close" gun.

I had seen guns before, and even shot .22s with my dad and brother but never gave them much thought. This one was different, it was cool. Factor in that I was a WWII junkie and there you go.

Well apparantly I just wouldn't shut up about my freind and his Luger and how cool it was because that same year for Christmas...


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At 10 years old this was my first firearm. It was also one of my first possessions I assigned real value too.

Btw, the details: 1917 Royal Armory at Erfurt, all original and matching except magazine.

I never looked at my bicycle with the same amount of fondness ever again.
 
mines not nearly as nice , a ithaca m-66 20ga. supersingle at age nine and i still have it and just taught my ten year old daughter to shoot it last year.
 
Sweet, StyerAUG. Very sweet. :)

I still have the 20 ga. single shot by dad gave me when I was 10. Ordered it from the Sears & Roebuck Catalog IIRC. It's leanin' against my desk right beside me, right now.
 
Nope, bought my first two myself, well actually one was for my wife (her choice), and have since sold both without any regret. My first gun was a Ruger single six .22 cal. - hated cleaning it and the cylinder pin had a nasty habit of shooting loose.

Wife's gun was a Beretta 21 in .22 cal with the tip up barrel - nasty little gun, I never cared to shoot it, after one shooting session neither did she.

My third gun was a Glock 17 - I still have it, well kind of still have it, I liked it, but had to give it to the wife, or else, she liked shooting it, I still get to clean it. Since then I got a Glock 19 to replace my Glock 17.

However the older my eyes get the more I migrate to rifles. When I get really old in a few years, God willing, I will probably have to switch to shotguns. ;)
 
I wish I still had mine. My dad got it for me. I had to sell it to buy food. It was a bad time with out a job far away from home, first time on my own.

I have all the others I own now and will never sell another because of the one! A 20g over and under 22

I love/hate thinking of that gun. And it taught me a good lesson later in my years.

Take a look at my nic name and guess what I own now +!
 
I was 12 or 13 when I bought my first firearm. Remington 870, 20 guage I paid for myself. It seems like it was about $160, or so. I recently bought an 870 12 guage for over 600 bucks :what:

At any rate, I sold the 20 guage a few years later for a profit. I sure wish I still had it. Its the only firearm I have ever sold. :banghead:
 
Yep... Dan Wesson 22 revolver. And my second, a Ruger Single Six with just the 22 Magnum cylinder.

I seriously doubt I'll ever get rid of either of them.
 
Btw, the first gun I paid for with my own money was a HK91. I actually bought a HK91 and a HK93 on the same day for $400 each in 1983. I remember feeling like the biggest sucker on the block to have spent so much on 2 guns.

I don't feel so bad these days. :D

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There were a couple "first guns" for me...

My first gun that would shoot something out of a barrel was a single-shot black powder pistol that I built from a kit. One of those advertised in the back of American Rifleman, IIRC. Still have it.

My first cartridge gun was an Iver Johnson breaktop .38 S&W. I convinced my Mother that I needed it. $60, IIRC, about 1980. I don't have it anymore. I gave it to Pete Dickey, Technical Director of American Rifleman magazine. He LOVED those old breaktops, and I wanted to say thank you. I learned a lot from just shutting up and listening to him.

My first semi-auto I still have, a Radom 9mm with Nazi acceptance stamps that I saw in my local gunshop for $125. Had to get Dad to buy it for me, as I was 18 at the time. Still have it.

My first modern revolver, and the first I bought on my own after turning 21, was a Charter Arms Off Duty, bought in 1986. Still have it.

My first shotgun was a Winchester Model 1200 that Mom and Dad got at a yardsale. Fun shotgun, Winchokes, I still have it, but it's apart right now.

My first rifle was a Savage 99. Bought it in 1984, my sophomore year in college. I fell in love with 99s when I saw one on the cover of American Rifleman around 1975 or so. For some reason I felt some strange compunction to hit the local sporting goods shop one afternoon after class, and there it was. Had just come in, a 99EG in .300 Savage, made in 1936. I made a down payment on it, and the guy at the shop allowed me to pay $10 to $20 a week until I had it paid off. I've still got that one, and always will.

My first Smith & Wesson, the gun that made me realize just what wonderous creations S&Ws are, was a .32 Long Regulation Police, made around 1920. I got it at the same shop where I got the Charter Arms and the Radom. I'm going to be shooting it on Friday.

Wow. What a litany of firsts! :)
 
Yep.

Remington single shot, bolt action .22 s/l/lr.

Kept it and several boxes of ammo on a rack on my bedroom wall from 6th grade on. Rack kept getting bigger, finally turned into a cabinet, then morphed into a locker and ultimately evolved into a couple of very large and heavy safes. The old Remington occupies a place of honor on the front row of one.
 
Yessir, I still have it, still shoot it, and still love it, my first pistol which I bought for about $110 brand new in 1976 just after I turned 18.

It's my beautiful Ruger Standard Model Mark One, blued steel, with the 6" tapered barrel and fixed sights which shoot dead on and which kills soda cans at 100 feet and balloons at 100 yards all day long! I love that gun!

Also, that pistol has been used to train at least a dozen tyros in safe gun handling and the fundamentals of marksmanship. If there was ever a gun that was a great return on investment, it's that $110 Ruger!!!
 
Btw, the first gun I paid for with my own money was a HK91. I actually bought a HK91 and a HK93 on the same day for $400 each in 1983.
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Why don't you just come over to my house and knife me in the heart? :evil:

Those are some sweet looking shootin' irons.

I still have my first, a Stevens .22/.410 OU
 
My first gun and hand gun was an Israeli BHP clone - stupid GSC talked me out of the FN one. It never ran right and I sold it to a TFL member (with full disclosure).

I have sold or traded away my first:

Handgun
Revolver
.22 handgun
.22 rifle
1911

I am a pragmatist at heart and decided that I would not keep a gun that I did not trust enough to save my live or a gun that was not other wise suited to do so.

I now own a Valtro and 2 S&Ws. They have never failed to go bang and I have no regrets.
 
My paternal grandfather gave me a single-shot .410 at age six, and I still have it. The first gun I PAID for (age 13; Mom had to sign the papers) was a Webley Mk. VI .455 converted to .45 ACP, and I just WISH I still had it. It was stolen from my mother's home while I was away in the Air Force, probably by a crony of my little brother, who shouldn't have shown it to the guy.

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Yes. A Daisy BB gun at age 6. Recently gave it to my youngest son. It still works 64 years later. Second gun? Hopkins&Allen 12 ga. given to me by my grandfather at age 8. Still have it. I have however, sold some of my later acquisitions Much to my everlasting regret.
 
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