Your First Love

[Milt1]

Colt Scout .22 that I purchased from Sears for $50.00 with some hard earned dollars back in the early '60's.

 

[EMC45]

What got me started when I was just a pup was a .22 LR Single Six Ruger when I was six. I've been hooked since.

 

[BigBlue 94]

Crossman 357 "python" co2 .177 pellet revolver.

For real guns, t'was this M1917 Colt that i still have.

 

[LaneP]

As a teen I was always infatuated with open top Colts



Becoming an adult in the era of the Spaghetti Western, there was no gun that struck my fancy more than the 1873 SAA. While I still don't own one, I have a "reasonable facsimile", the Ruger Vaquero.

 

[Meeks36]

A break top h&r revolver 22 lr 9 shot cannot remember model#. 4 in barrel. Many ground squirrel have meet its demise from that thing.

 

[NIGHTLORD40K]

My first revolver was also my first handgun- S&W 681. I still think they might be the best combat revolver ever made. Had to sell it to buy food for the kids when times got tough.

When things turned around, one of the first new guns I bought was a nice 686-0. Its a fine target gun, and my favorite currently owned pistol, but its just.........not the same.

 

[Mr. Mosin]

Whazzat mean?

No disrespect meant... but... your never ending tirade of "political correctness".

 

[Kleanbore]

No disrespect meant... but... your never ending tirade of "political correctness".

Nope. That's not something I talk about.

 

[entropy]

First was the Colt .22 Frontier Scout my Dad would let me roam the woods up at our cabin with, the second was the 6" Trooper MKIII he gave me when I was 15; He'd replaced it as his duty gun with a 4" Python, which I eventually bought from him when the SPPD replaced the Python with a G17.

Howdy

The first revolver I ever bought was this Uberti 44 caliber, brass framed 'Navy' in 1968. I was still a teenager and did not know that the Colt Navy was never chambered for 44 caliber. Shot it for a few years before I bought my first cartridge revolvers in 1975. Alas, too many 30 grain charges stretched the frame and it is just a wall hanger now, but I still have it. Nobody was telling us back in 1968 that 30 grains of FFg was too heavy a load for a brass framed Cap & Ball revolver.

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Glad to know I wasn't the only one......

 

[Dave T]

"Love"? Revolver?

No.

Wife, yes. Dog, yes. Snow, yes.

The choice of words could prove unfortunate.

If you can love snow but not a revolver, we aren't from the same planet.

Just sayin',
Dave

 

[Ugly Sauce]

Despite living out in the country, when I was growing up we had neighbors right across the road from us. They were an older couple with an 'old fashioned ' farm . Complete with milk cows, chickens, eggs, ducks, turkeys, ........coon hounds......etc.
Themrs of the house had a bachelor brother who would come every summer and set up his giant cabin tent, complete with cot, rugs, coolers, and all the necessary gear to stay the summer.
He had a Ruger single six that he would shoot blackbirds. They were plentiful around the barnlot. He would the use their innards for catfish bait.
I fell in love with that single six, especially when he told me that he used the magnum cylinder in his part-time security gaurd job!
Whoo! Seeing was believing for a 8 or 9 yo gun-crazy farm boy.
It wasn't long until I had my own single six.
I'm up to three now....
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Did them mushrooms require head shots, or will a body shot bring them down?

 

[NIGHTLORD40K]

If you can love snow but not a revolver, we aren't from the same planet.

Just sayin',
Dave

 

[Kleanbore]

Had to sell it to buy food for the kids when times got tough.

Been there. Pristine SAA. sold for $150.

If you can love snow but not a revolver, we aren't from the same planet.

Some people love snow, and some people hate it.

Being quoted as having said either one would likely not harm a person's chances of being selected for some position or other ,or of being admitted somewhere..

 

[Ugly Sauce]

My first "real" revolver was one of the first New Model Super Blackhawks. (had a "Rhom" .38 before that) Shot thousands of .44 Special through it, went through a "maguntitus" phase when I first started to reload, took it on many a back-pack (can't imagine taking a pistol that heavy now) shot a deer with it and many a coyote. Too many coyotes actually. If I had to throw all my pistols in a lake, or sell them, or whatever, that would be the last to go.

 

[bannockburn]

My first revolver was a Charter Arms Undercover followed not long after with my purchase of a Colt Trooper Mk.III. While I "loved" my Trooper it wasn't my first love. That honor belonged to the Colt SAA (followed very closely by the Colt Model 1860). I supposed it all started from watching Roy Rogers and The Lone Ranger on TV when I was a kid. Of course I had a pair of Fanner 50s along with other toy copies of the Colt SAA . I still remember seeing Colt's Centennial tribute to the SAA and the Frontier Six Shooter, in Woolworths of all places back in 1973!

And while I have never owned a Colt SAA I have managed to fuel my lifelong passion for the gun with a number of replicas which help to keep my interest going at least until the real thing comes around!.




As to the Colt Model 1860 I consider it my other First Love as far as black powder revolvers go!

 

[Armored farmer]

Did them mushrooms require head shots, or will a body shot bring them down?

The revolver is for emergencies. I have bagged many a fiesty morel with only my knife.

 

[Ugly Sauce]

A braver man than I, I wouldn't face a mushroom with anything less than my K-Bar.

 

[NeroM]

Different tools, for different tasks - two revolvers are my favorite.
S & W M10 (currently a 10-14) and a FA83 in 41 Mag.
The M10 for utility, pleasure shooting and security.
It is very satisfying to shoot - has a certain "soul" about it.
FA83 is my primary deer gun - also satisfying to shoot.

 

[Oldschool shooter]

Ruger flat top single six with both cylinders. I bought it used from a poor soul at the Kenton National coon dog field trials. Seems he drank up all hismoney and needed bus fare to get home. I paid$25 for it, which was a lot for me at the time. I was only 12 years old.got it home and dad had it registered in his name till I was old enough to own it legally. I still have that pistol, I turn61 next week.

 

[Old Dog]

 

[ThomasT]

What was *your* first love in regards to a revolver ? What hooked you on "all things wheelgun" ? For *me*, it was a 4" heavy barrel Mdl 10. The classic look and understated elegance and refinement.

Well Dan you surprise me. In all the emails we have traded you keep telling me how much you wished to own a handgun but can’t afford one. And now I see you have been fooling me these last few months and never letting on that you own a model 10. That’s surprising because you have asked me so much about them.

 

[bob40caliber]

S&W Model 66.

 

[Dunross]

A S&W Model 28 with 6" barrel. The first revolver I ever bought. I will never sell it.

 

[alfsauve]

686 no dash 8-3/8". Saw it at a gun show when the model was new. It was love at first sight. Still have her. Dozens of IHMSA matches.

 

[Rexster]

I believed in big bores, for “stopping power,” but was required to use a .357 Magnum during the police academy, so I built my initial skill set with L-Frames, but soon favored my S&W Model 58, .41 Magnum, which I still have. Eventually, I realized that I was wrecking my thumb and wrist joints by shooting incorrectly-held N-Frames with K-/L-sized hands and fingers. In hindsight, I now really wish I had not sold or traded my S&W Model 581, which was the smoother of my two L-Frames, purchased in 1983. (The other was a 686, with a rougher action.)

So, in a case of not knowing what I had, until it was gone, that S&W Model 581 seems to be the best answer, for the OP’s question, regarding the “first.” In the early Nineties, I discovered the Ruger GP100, and now have several, in various configurations and barrel lengths. I also have S&W K-Frames. So, there is no actual need to turn back time, and acquire L-Frames, but, if the planets ever align, at a time when I have the discretionary cash, it would be nice to acquire a well-preserved S&W 581.