Your first rifle

[Hocka Louis]

It'd have to be a Blue Sky Imports Inland M1 Carbine. Armory refurbished all the way from South Korea weren't they? Cost a few hundred bucks but there was a 10%-off coupon in the paper! I wanted to get into highpower competition. Yeah, well, I guess I was a teenager. Picked the best of the decent selection. Came with one 15 rnd mag -- that jammed. And a thin nylon sling with Asian characters. Nice condition metal but I promptly refinished the beatup stock including semi-gloss finish. Did I mention I was young? LOL

What a great, fun, big, pistol. Bought a couple more when I grew up and sold one since...

Gehr

 

[bryank30]

A good old sewerpiped barrel Yugo 59/66 for a great price of $130.00 back in 2004. Still a great shooter even with the rust pitted barrel!

 

[joed]

My first semi auto was an AR15. After it sat for 4 years I sold it. Other then being in a survival situation I don't like shooting them.

 

[spyke]

Wasr 10 ak... sold it and picked up an Arsenal Saiga conversion when they were on sale. My Wasr was a good rifle no complaints. The guy I sold it to still has not shot it. Its been prob a year and a half. Wish I would have kept it ... would have 2 aks instead of one..

 

[Legionnaire]

Ruger Mini-14 Ranch. Reliable and inaccurate. Sold it for an AR with no regrets.

 

[Colt Smith]

Sa m1a

 

[A_Matthew]

Does it still count?

Only if it actually works. I've seen some that didn't including the one I owned. I didn't build it - a friend did and I told him he was screwing up but he thought I didn't know anything. Evidently I didn't because I let the guy shoot up several hundred rounds of MY ammo trying to make that thing work. It never did and he even quit taking my calls about it because he couldn't make it work and he didn't want to talk about it. Then he actually got mad at me for selling it for the price I had in it because a few of the parts were his. I guess he forgot about the guarantee he gave me he could make it work in 2 hours. I waited almost a year before I sold it really cheap.

Yes, it works. And very well at that. After not much experience with semi-auto rifles, and not much experience with mine, I managed to pull off a 3 inch group at 100yds with iron sights. Not bad considering.

Oh, and after some fine tuning, not a single FTF, FTE, etc...

 

[gohogs93]

That I personally bought? Mini 14 age 18
That was purchased for me? 10/22 Age 9

 

[Davek1977]

My first was a Norinco SKS, right around maybe 1992-93, when I was 14 years old. i paid a whopping total of $110 for the gun a couple boxes of ammo. I still have the rifle, and although no longer used for the purpose, it has collected a few deer for me over the years. It now has company in the form of an AR-15 Doublestar and a WASR 10/63. It has never given me any problems, shoots good, and just begs to be kept every time the idea of selling it comes along. Even if it rarely gets shot, I just can't part with my first centerfire!!!

 

[Siggie]

Sig Sauer SIG Sport 551 LE .. and still have it..

 

[kimberkid]

First semi-auto centerfire rifle was a Russian SKS for $69.95 ... wish I'd bought more at that price!

There have been a lot since then.

 

[DrDragon]

First Rifle: Ruger 10/22

First Centerfire Semi-Auto: Colt LE 6920

 

[a-sheepdog]

Springfield M1A, loved it, still have it.

 

[FROGO207]

As the OP asked

First semi-auto center fire rifle I purchased was a Mini 14--1975'ish. As soon as I was legally old enough.

First semi-auto center fire given to me-- Inland 30 M1 Carbine that my grandfather had me shooting at age 4 with his help.

 

[millertyme]

Romanian SAR-1.

 

[sixgunner455]

*semi-automatic, centerfire*

Yugo SKS with the cool grenade launcher stuff, since replaced in my heart and safe with a lightweight AR15 carbine. Much more accurate, much more reliable, much lighter and easier to use.

First rifle - .50 T/C Hawken.

First semiautomatic rifle - Ruger 10/22.

First milsurp - Romanian M44 Mosin Nagant.

Best milsurp - K31.

 

[Still Shooting]

First Semiauto

Mine was a Ruger mini 14 ranch, SS. Bought it from a young man who had just married, and the new wife wanted china and flatware! I paid $180 for the rifle (less than 50 rds thru it), a 20rd and a 30rd (POS) mag, 2 boxes of ammo. I put a Choate zytel stock, flash hider, and an Aimpoint with 3x tube on it.

Shortly after, got into a Springfield M1A, Acraglass bedded Douglas barrel. Both gone now, and unless I pick up a CMP Garand, that's it for me and semiautos. I like bolts.

 

[chicharrones]

What was your first semi-automatic centerfire rifle that you bought.

My first rifle at all was my Norinco SKS bought in '93. I was young, poor, and it was the only centerfire rifle in my price range. The ammo was cheap as dirt, too.

Not long after that, I bought a surplus m/96 Swedish Mauser for even less money. The ammo costs at the time kept me from hardly using it, though.

 

[xfyrfiter]

Stag Arms M4gery, not the most accurate but does what it was made for.

 

[HavelockLEO]

First semi-auto was an M1 Garand that I still have.

First rifle I bought from a dealer who was also a family friend, Lithgow No1 MkIII* that I also still have.

 

[HOWARD J]

M1- carbine
Iver Johnson 9MM rifle
Uzi-9MM
2-AK-47
2-SKS
2-Mini-14
Mini 30

 

[bubba15301]

mini 14

 

[Grousefeather]

first center fire auto

a Colt, AR-15.

 

[Ignition Override]

An imitation M-1 Carbine by Auto-Ordnance, in Oct '07 at age 52: my first gun purchase.
That brand-new rifle, bought at "Guns And Ammo", Memphis TN was a mistake.

After a month of gentle treatment, the bolt got jammed, as in rock hard. Free factory repair, and it seemed fine, but being so disappointed by that segment of US "quality control", that I sold it at a big loss just to get rid of it.

Two guns later, my reliable, rugged "Commie-built" SKS proved that the only junk is a rifle that won't function.
If these were more attractive and had western looks, they might be more popular.

 

[Ignition Override]

Jeff56:
Is yours a Russian, Yugo or Chinese?