Your First Gun...Still Got It?

[ColinthePilot]

I inherited 5 guns at once; Beretta 1934, (the rest are all to old to know brands) 12ga side-by-side, .22 single shot breech action, .55Cal muzzle loader pistol, and a .32 S&W revolver. still have all of them. Only shoot the Beretta and then only occasionally.

 

[bikerdoc]

if memory serves, my uncle gave me a berreta .22 i think it was a 948 model hard trigger pull and impossible to find a second magazine - sold it to pay tuition and bought a used 10/22 i still have. After vietnam i bought a model 19, still have it and many more followed because i use the rule "in addition to rather than instead of"


"no plastic frames, no rubber grips, just steel guns with wooden grips"

 

[ishida]

Marlin Model 39, Golden trigger. It was my Great Grandfather's, then my Grandfather's, and now it's mine. And It'll be my kid's, when I ever have any.

 

[Average Joe]

Yep, got my first rifle, a Sears .22 single shot , and my first shotgun ,Ithaca Model 66 Super single.

 

[greenjeans]

Single shot, bolt action, .22 LR, Mossberg New Haven. A Christmas present from my dad when I was 12 or 13 (soon to be 62). My 8 yr. old grand daughter calls it her gun now and is pretty good with it.

 

[thebaldguy]

I still have my Crosman 760 pump air rifle that my dad gave me back in the early 70's. The seals are shot, but I can't bring myself to throw it away.

 

[2nd 41]

No. I bought a S&W mod 37 in 1980 for self protection. I had a business and kept it under my shirt for 25 years. Closed the business in 05 and gave it to a friend. Legally transferred of course

 

[BridgeWalker]

Nope. I got a cheap and ill-suited Rossi 20 gauge single-shot. As soon as I started shooting regularly, I learned in exactly what ways it was unsuitable and got more or less the most perfect for me shotgun I could afford.

I've sort of done the same thing with my first revolver. I didn't really get how or what to look for in a revolver, so I just got a cheap and basic Heritage. When I get to know it better and figure out more about how a revolver feels and functions, I'll be better equipped to choose subsequent models.

 

[jdorian]

Still got mine, simply because I can't bear to sell it and because its still my primary weapon.

 

[ConstitutionCowboy]

I still have my first gun - a Ruger Security Six in 357 Mag - that I picked up at a pawn shop in '92. I was 46 at the time, but have been around guns all my life, and bought this one for security reasons.

More interesting is that my wife of eleven years bought her first gun at about age 20 - a Sterling Model 302, .22LR Pistol - that she bought for personal protection. She taught her son how to shoot it as soon as he could hold it secure enough. Her son is now 38, an avid shooter, and has been a reserve sheriff. I bought a Sterling Model 300, .25 Auto, to keep the 302 company.

Between the two of us, we've begun a modest collection, ranging from that Sterling .22 up through some big bore rifles. We enjoy target shooting and running "drills" from time to time.

Woody

Look at your rights and freedoms as what would be required to survive and be free as if there were no government. Governments come and go, but your rights live on. If you wish to survive government, you must protect with jealous resolve all the powers that come with your rights - especially with the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. Without the power of those arms, you will perish with that government - or at its hand. B.E. Wood

 

[lionking]

yep still got it,a Remington .22 bolt action,trigger is broken though.I never get rid of guns.

 

[AgAce]

I passed both of my first firearms to my grandson on his 7th and 8th birthdays - a single shot lever action .22 and a single shot break open .410. He's now almost 14, and outgrown those two, but plans on keeping them for his kids.

 

[Jeffreii]

Yeah still have the first one, but then again, I never get rid of guns. I don't get rid of anything really for that matter - it is all still around.... somewhere.

Oh, and yeah, my first was a 22LR. I bet that is what most people have had as their first. At least my first vehicle was equipped with a 454 Big Block Chevy instead of a 4 banger.

 

[BlackBearME]

I do. Win 94 .30-30. Bought for my tenth birthday, just in time for hunting season. I've bought and sold several since then, but I've always kept that one.

I look forward to the day I can hand it on to my daughter. I just hope she wants it.

 

[Picknlittle]

Yep! I found a Remington .22 single shot, bolt action under the tree on my 12th Christmas. At one point the ejector broke, and I fixed it with a touch of heli-arc weld and some pretty nice file work. Later refinished the stock and it is still my baby.

 

[jackstinson]

For Christmas when I was 12 years old, my mother gave me a used Savage 22/410. Many fond memories.
I went to live alone in Australia when I was 17 (long story). When I returned to the USA a few years later, I learned that the Savage and the rest of my guns had been "acquired" by my brother-in-law and were never returned to me. Bummer, one was a nice old Mossberg 42 which had taken many a groundhog....Ah well.
NOTE: I have my son's first gun stored for him.
Jack

 

[moooose102]

well, i guess technically, my first gun was a daisy bb gun, yup, still have it, next year my son is going to get it for his first gun for Christmas. now my first REAL gun was an ithica over/under .22 win mag over a 20 gauge shot gun. shot a lot of squirels with that gun but i really don't miss it much. it was HEAVY! and i was young when i sold it! however, i did miss the .22 mag part of it so much i had to go out and buy one of those.

 

[jkingrph]

Still have the Marlin 39a that Dad got for me in either fall of 51/ spring of 52. I was in the second grade at the time. Also have the Win mod 70 featherweight 30-06 he got me when I finished high school in '63.

 

[Essex County]

Yes. A Remingtom 41P Targetmaster single shot .22. Dad bought it new for something like 18 bucks. I still shoot it from time to time.....Essex

 

[grnzbra]

J.C.Higgens semi-auto .22 rifle. It's iffy and I have misfires about 10 percent of the time with it. Not really in the mood to buy another .22 rifle.

 

[Notch]

Bought myself a Ruger Redhawk... stainless with a 7" barrel. Still have it.

 

[Vicious-Peanut]

Not counting a BB gun, it would be my Marlin 925M that I got last Christmas. ('06)

 

[RockyMtnTactical]

Glock 27, and yes I still have it. I carry it daily. In fact, it is on me right now.

I bought it when I turned 21.

 

[caltek1911]

USP9, bought it last year.

 

[JustinL]

My first was an Anshutz which my father bought me in 1990. I still have it, but have not fired it in at least 10 years.