Your First Gun...Still Got It?

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First guns

I wish I still had the first gun I purchased on my own, a Mossberg Model 500 12-gauge "Cruiser combo" with both the short and long barrels, the full wooden stock and the pistol grip, etc.

My first handgun was a brand-new Smith & Wesson Model 19 .357 Magnum. It was a beauty...and I hate to say I no longer own it, either.

I've seen some posts about airguns and I can at least say I still have ALL of those! Daisy Models 1897, 840, and a scoped 881, plus a Crosman 1600 semi-auto pistol and a 38T pellet revolver, and even one of those wimpy little Marksman 1010s that are supposed to look like a 1911! My buddy had one, too, and we were always impressed that these little 1010s could shoot not just BBs but pellets and darts LOL...still haven't tried the dart thing!

The 38T revolver has a six-inch barrel and got me started early thinking I was at least as bad as "Dirty Harry" hahaha...my Dad even helped me rig up a shoulder holster to pack it in...I carried that Crosman under a jacket or untucked shirt just about everywhere but to school in my junior high days...surely that must have been at least a misdemeanor!!!

I've inherited a very weathered old Hopkins & Allen 12-gauge single-barrel shotgun that was my grandfather's...it is not functional but it's surely a keeper.
 
First gun was a Benjamin pump air rifle, .22. I got it for my 7th Christmas. First firearm was a Winchester Mod. 77 semi-auto .22 with the tube magazine. I got that one for my 15th Christmas. My first purchase was a S&W Mod. 28, .357, 4" bbl. I bought it at the Wiesbaden Rod and Gun Club in Germany in 1968. Paid $83 new in box.

Still have all three.
 
Mine is a REmington Model 552 pump...I was Seventeen..God that was a long time ago..Still shoots great. Full size adult 22 rifle at the time. I remember buying it with my own money..My father chipped iin 20 when I decided on it instead of a Winchester model 190..I was short...Great memory...

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my first gun I bough t I still have its a Ruger KGP161 its in the safe right now cleaned and oiled , ihaven't used it much lately , the first gun I shot It was proprerty of the state and had to give it back :( :cuss: . S&W hiway patrolman
 
My parents gave me my first gun for Christmas in 1949, a 16 ga. Iver Johnson, Champion shotgun. It is still in the family. A grandson owns it now. I was very proud to pass it on to him.
 
Yup. BL-22 .22 lever action given to me when I was around 14. I used to plink in the front yard until the neighbors complained. The first pistol was an AT-84 9mm given to me for graduation from high school. Neither will ever be sold, nor will the Sig 229 given as a college graduation present.
 
Yup! Remington 510 my grandfather gave me when I was a kid (in the '50s).
I shoot it in sporter rifle matches, still does the job.

Gene ;)
 
My dad gave me my first gun when I was 10...22 years ago now...a Winchester Model 67 single-shot bolt-action .22. Still have it.

My first purchased gun was a Thompson/Center Pennsylvania Hunter .50-cal. muzzlelaoder. Still have it, too.
 
Well, I guess maybe somebody somewhere might have that old Brazilian, 5-shot, 1 shot before it seized up, .38 snub revolver that I thought was so cool back in 1974. Glad I got rid of it before it got me killed.
 
My first was my Ruger 10/22. I didn't know what I wanted, but I knew I wanted one of these... Still have it, still just as fun 30,000+ rounds later...

My first pistol was a Steyr M40. Still got that too... Actually, the only gun I've sold thus far is my SKS. Everything else, I still have.
 
winchester 67a, still have it, gonna hand it down to my 6 yr old when he grows into it. have added an ithica 37 16ga, h&r topper 48 12 ga ( al three i got from my garndfather ), most recently a mosin m44 that im sporterizing, fixin to get a stevens 220 16 ga in a week or 2. btw anyone know much about the stevens 220? i dont know much about them, but this one's the tightest single shot ive ever handled.
 
I still have my first; a little Anschutz youth model .22lr my dad bought for me when I was 8. It is a great little entry level competition firearm (a little too small now haha) but maybe one day I pass it down.

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First one owned?

Not sure if it was a Hawes Western Six Shooter (.22 / .22Mag) or a Remington 760 Gamemaster in .308. Both were given about the same time. Still have the rifle; the poj revolver is long gone. Still have my first purchase - a Ruger Standard Model .22 that's older than I am.
 
Yeah, i still have mine, it's my sharps 1878 in 45-70, and I love it.

But here's a better story-- My dad's first gun was a marlin lever-action .22 rifle. He got it when he was ten, i think. He had it for a long time, and once shot it through the window of his parents' kitchen. They never fixed the broken window, and told me about it decades later.

When he got older, he sold/traded the gun to his cousin, who was 10 yrs younger, and just learning to shoot. He then traded it to his brother. Cousin #2 kept it for years, and taught his kids to shoot on it. When those kids grew up and moved out of the house, he gave the rifle as a gift to my older brother, for his son (who is as yet not shooting age). So the gun changed hands many times, but always stayed in the tribe, and now will be the first gun of the original owner's grandson.
 
Still have the Daisy Powerline 856 I bought with the money I earned working on our fruit farm when I was 10 or so. I was getting a dollar for every bushel I picked and people say money doesn't grow on trees. Spent a lot of happy hours with that rifle. Got me into trouble more than once too.
 
My first firearm was given to me by my Grandfather when my mother was pregnant with me.
It is a Montgomery Wards Hercules 12ga 2 3/4 side by side and I still have it, and I have won a few turkey shoots with the right barrel.
 
S&W .44 revolver

For me it isn't that hard. I bought my first gun just over a year ago - a S&W .44 Mountain Gun. I can't imagine selling it. I hope to give it go one of my sons someday.
 
My first gun was a Winchester 69A .22 rifle. We were riding in the car one day and my Dad was talking to my mom about selling some of his civil war guns. I was 9 years old and didn't care too much about the civil war guns but I asked what he was going to do with the .22, he looked at me in the rear view mirror and said "It's yours"

You couldn't wipe the grin off my face for the rest of the day. :D

When I was old enough to start buying guns I purchased a S&W 422 pistol. I still have the rifle and the pistol. Years later when my Dad saw how serious I was about firearms he regretted selling the civil war guns.
 
Kind of a back-handed way, but I have the Single Six I shot when I was a kid. It belonged to my father, who bought it new. I have it for keeps(as long as I can) now. I grab hold of it when I need to go back to a better day.
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Yes I still have it. When I turned 10 I was dissapointed, all the other boys got their .22's. Dad was out of work and I understood. Next year I got a Ruger MKI. Man where all the other fellas jealous, I got a pistol. Carried it everywhere told them no for a change. Little brother had to beg to use one of their rifles. If I had all the allowance back I spent on ammo, nah kept me out of trouble.
 
well if BB guns count then no i don't have it anymore.

If it's restricted to "real" guns then yep....but it's not that impressive since I bought it (SA XD9sc) about 9 months ago
 
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