Teenage "cowboy guns".

My first was a Colt Scout 22 L.R. with the Magnum cylinder. I was 16 or 17 and my brother gave it to me for Christmas for helping him build his house. I sold it in the early 80's with all the papers and boxes along with the keychain screwdriver for around $300. That sure seemed like a lot of cash for a father of 2 with a 3rd on the way! I had a Western rig with 24 bullet loops on the belt, that I bought brand new in Mexico for a few bucks. It was black and tooled over 100% and squeaked every time you moved!

Ivan

P.S. My first S&W was a 39-2 I bought used for $100 cash OTD in 1981 at a Central Ohio Gun Collectors Show (Not OGCA), That was my beginning into casting bullets also (by mid 1985 I was loading 20,000 9mm's a year for it and the MAC-10 full auto! Now that gun set me back some cash!)

My first was a 30 cal Ruger SA in about 69 or 70.
Brother in Seattle bought it for me with the 98 dollar check I sent him. Gun store owner threw in 100 rnds on stripper clips.
He brought it down to Idaho and I never learned to shoot it well.
But years after I traded it off for a m15, I learned.
Wish I still had both of em.
Ah youth... LOL

My first revolver was some kind of SA 22. Name like Bison or something and my mom had to pick it up for me. It wasn't much really. Wasn't long before the sear went and it wouldn't stay cocked. Wonder what ever happened to it. Think it dissipated some how when I went in the Marines.

I love this thread, however as a kid I had a slightly different take on this idea.
In 1973 I was able to get into an "R" rated movie called "Magnum Force", with Clint Eastwood playing, of course, "Dirty Harry" Callahan. I loved the movie!
I got my first BB gun when I was 8 years old, a Daisy Winchester lever action model. Naturally, I had a number of cap guns in holster that accompanied my "real" gun, LOL.
When I turned 10 I got my first .22 rifle. It was an old World War II training rifle, single shot but surprisingly accurate though.
As far as my gun history goes, nothing changed until I saw "Magnum Force". I really wanted a Model 29 .44 magnum, but that was not going to happen,even though I made enough money to buy one, heck I bought a Martin D-18 guitar over that summer. Anyway, I was browsing through a hardware store one day and then I saw "IT", a Crossman 38T. It was a .22 caliber CO2 pistol, which fired 6 shots, just like a real handgun. I couldn't resist, I bought it. I guess "gun" laws were really different back then because I walked out of the door with the gun, a 12 pack of CO2 cartridges and a box of .22 caliber pellets too. Now I had almost the whole Dirty Harry package, all I really needed now was a shoulder holster. When I got back home I went to my room, picked up the telephone and started calling all of the gun stores in the area within 30 miles of my house and finally after a half dozen or so calls I found it. A Bianchi shoulder holster that would accommodate my new handgun. I raced there as quick as my 10 speed would get me there and carried my new 38T in a backpack. I told the salesgirl that I was the one that had called about the shoulder holster and she did a bit of a double take when I pulled the 38T out of my backpack. I saw her eyes widen and told her it wasn't loaded and sat it on the counter in front of her. After checking it out for a few seconds she noted the plastic grips on the gun and relaxed completely. She took the shoulder holster off the peg behind the counter and put it down for me to examine. Then she asked me, "Do you know how much that costs?" "Nope", I said, "and I don't care either as long as it fits my gun, I'm buying it." She looked somewhat astonished and silently nodded at me, I'm sure she thought, "Right kid, like you have $75 bucks". So the gun fit the holster perfectly, but I had to ask her to help me put it on, which she did. I went straight to the fitting rooms in the store, it was a gun store/military surplus place that I'd been in before with my Pop. With that shoulder holster and my blued steel beauty, I looked bad as heck and like a slightly shorter Dirty Harry Callahan. I was thrilled. I took my wallet out of my back pack and started counting out $20 bills until I counted $80 bucks. Again, she looked a bit astonished and asked where I had gotten all of the money, because she saw that I had another $300 or $400 bucks in my bulging wallet. I told her I worked at Wallace's Seafood in Glen Burnie. I paid for my shoulder holster, left the gun in place and threw on my navy blue McGregor windbreaker, a lot like Harry Callahan's windbreaker from the movie, and zipped it up about halfway so that my gun was mostly hidden. Before I got on my bike, I added a CO2 cartridge and put 6 .22 caliber pellets into the gun and shoved it home in the holster. Then I climbed up on the ten speed and rode home as fast as I could. I set up soda cans in the backyard on the fence between us and the woods, walked back about 15 feet, drew my weapon and started knocking down cans. The gun shot a little low and to the left, but I figured it out pretty quickly and was absolutely thrilled with my new gun purchases.
I practiced everyday, while I had the house to my self. I kept the gun and holster hidden from my family for about 2 weeks until my Pop came home from work early one day and walked into the backyard to find me knocking cans off the fence. He looked really surprised when he saw the gun sitting on a patio table, until he picked it up and examined it. I can't tell you how much the darned thing looked like a real gun and felt a lot like one too. I set up the cans again and told him to try it out. He spent the next hour with me knocking off the cans. I hope the image comes through OK, because if you haven't seen one of these things before you'll be amazed at how much the thing looks like the real thing, LOL. That gun started off my love of Smith & Wesson revolvers. Great thread idea!
Here's a link to look at the gun that's for sale on armslist: ARMSLIST - For Sale: Vintage good condition Crosman 38t .22 cal Co2 pistol.