Whats the first "real" non-BB-gun your dad ever let you shoot.

Mine was a single barrel stevens .410 I shot a 3" #8 remington bird shot....I still got the ol' green plastic hull.

Marlin single shot .22lr bolt gun. I still have it.

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Probably the Remington bolt action .22 that now lives in my safe. Our neighbor owned the local livestock yards and my dad helped his wife clean out the house after he died. I remember a violin and the .22. I only learned how to use one of the two. The Remington was a total mess. I "refinished" the stock when I was 12 or so and also did a cold blue on the barrel. I shot it a couple of years ago just for the fun of it and it still works fine.

Winchester Model 62 pump 22 that was my grandfathers and is still in my safe today

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A Charter Arms AR-7 .22lr take-down rifle. It was the one that you could disassemble, put the parts in the stock, and (supposedly) it would float. I was 9 years old at the time.

Remington Model 58 16 Ga. in about 1967, my dad still has that shotgun.

Like PHB, only the model right before his-the Winchester Model 1890 22 short pump that belonged to my maternal Grandfather, and indeed, it is in the safe and shoots as well as ever.Flapjack.

His S&W Model 1905, Fourth Change .38 Special police service revolver. I must have been somewhere between 10 and 12 years old. I still have it. Nickel plated with stag grips.

P-38. It was a jam o matic

Of course his dad (my grandfather) used to let me shoot his Ruger 22 Mk I a lot-but I was sworn to secrecy about that

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Still have it. It is this winchester 61 with the rare octogon barrel. Dad bought this gun around 1938. Dad was a very tall man with long arms and put a block of wood or pad on all his long guns for LOP.

Remington 700, still have the bent scope and the scar. i was 6 years old!

Had mine out about 3 weeks ago and can not believe with all that has been shoot thought it that it still shoots as good as it dos very little blueing left on it but no rust

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My father wasn't a "gun guy" until later in life...despite the fact that he was a WWII veteran. We didn't have guns in the house when I was growing up.

My Uncle George (my father's brother-in-law) had some guns though. When we visited them, sometimes my uncle would take my father and they would go shooting.

Even though I asked, the *******s never took me along! I was "too young".

I bought my own "first gun" when I was 18. My father bought a couple of guns after I did.

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.22 lever action single shot ithica.

Winchester model 67A .22LR bolt action single shot - dad gave it to me when I was 7 as my first gun and the one I used for my NRA class. Like a dope I sold it in 1988 for $25.00 in a garage sale....duhhhh!

Pete

I'm going to go stand in the corner now.

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My dad didn't buy his first gun until just after I was born. He was 38 years old at the time. Dad had a bunch of LE friends and he practiced with them quite often (Free ammo!!) He taught me how to shoot it when I was 9 or 10 years old. The gun is a model 36 no dash shipped and sold in 1968. He paid $79.50 for it, though it is priceless to me.

The first gun Dad let me shoot was a Savage 24V? I think. it was a 22/410. I could shoot rabbits with either barrel and pheasants with the 410. I always thought it was a great way to start a kid on a scattergun 'cause once I learned to hit birds with the 410, moving up to a 20 ga. made me look like a pro in the field!

Christmas 1962.....long box under the tree....Stevens 940A .410 and two boxes of shells.....had to wait until after dinner (lunch down here)....still have it.....first rifle was a Winchester 190 .22.....still have it...first handgun was a Ruger 3 screw .357 Blackhawk.....it's gone....my dad was a great man.....

rick

My first was a H&R nine shot .22 with a six inch barrel. It went everywhere my father did and I got to first shoot it at age five.

First shotgun was a double barrel Stevens .410.

First rifle was a Remington single shot 22.

1903A3 that was cut down for a five year old kid by his uncle who was a gunsmith in Portales, NM. Kicked like a mule, but I loved that gun shooting Surplus 06 for target pratice, hunting loads were Surplus 06 that had the bullet pulled and replaced with a 150grn Silver Tip.
I was a deer murderin' dude till about twelve when I out grew that gun and had to pass it on to one of my cousins.

I didn't get a .22lr Rifle till I was 10 and that was a hand me down from one of my uncles. It was made in the 30s. Most accurate .22 that I had until I bought a 514T Bull Barrel 700BDL.

Rule 303

First was his Winchester M74. Then he bought me a Springfield (Stevens) M15 single shot to use on my own.

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He didn't,but when I started hunting in my early twenties,he gave me his old 30-06.His only gun.

The first gun I ever fired was an M-16 in USAF basic training. I guess you could say that my Father "let" me shoot it, inasmuch as he had to sign my enlistment papers, since I was only 17 at the time.

While he owned at least 7 guns (including 3 WWII "bring-backs") when I was a kid, he never offered to educate me at all about guns, or asked me if I even had any interest. I think this was in part (if not entirely) because my Mother wasn't too keen on guns, which I believe stemmed from her Father's suicide when she was a child. I think my Mother initially was somewhat concerned as my interest in firearms (and the resulting collection) grew ever larger, but eventually she calmed down and accepted it.

Tim

Ruger 10/22

My first stepfather owned an original Cot Bisley chambered in .45 Colt. I was five years old and that was the first firearm I ever fired. Hit myself in the forehead with the hammer.

".22 lever action single shot ithica."

My second stepfather, who I consider my Dad, talked my mother and grandmother into letting me have one of those on my 15th birthday. It's in the safe as we speak.

Back in May, I was visiting Mom and Pappy and as I was fixin' to leave, he handed me a guncase that contained a 1911A1 that had been fitted with target sights AND a 1939 .22 LR Colt Service Ace.

Thanks, Pappy!!!!

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SW Model 60 38 snubbie off the balcony.

It's in my safe; box and all.

My dad never let me shoot a gun, and would be upset if he knew I had one, let alone many.

Still, he is the greatest.

I love you Dad!

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The first pistol my fatherly figure let me shoot was a 6" taurus 66 in 357....shot it with 38's though

The first one I fired was my dads .30-30 Winchester. It is sitting in my gun closet now. The second was a handgun, the 38/44 heavy duty that is also in the closet. I lost dad last week, and his services were this past Thursday. He gave me alot, great memories, bird and deer hunting, my first rifle, and helped me buy my first handgun, a .22 single six my wife now claims as her own.

Great thread, thanks for starting it!

Winchester, bolt action single shot with 22 shorts... Was my dads and grampas before that... It's around here somewhere... Later, Dave

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The first rifle I ever fired was the Ithaca Model 49.22 single shot I got for my 7th birthday, but the first handgun was my Dad's .22 Jet. When I was 5, I got to shoot a couple of shorts through the rimfire cylinder. That S&W got swapped off when I was about 10. My Dad still wishes he had kept that one.

Rifle: A 6 mm Flobert Rimfire with ca. 6 years in his shop.
Pistol: Dad's servicegun SIG 210-2 9 mm Luger with ca. 7 - 8 years. I will never forget it. I shot supported at 50 meters
at the offcial precision-target. I hit the 9-ring, a bit low and left.

Swissman

My dad didn't shoot or own guns, but he had no objection if a neighbor kid's dad wanted to teach me to shoot. So the first gun I ever shot was some kind of single-shot .22, at age 9 or 10. Another kid's dad took me pheasant hunting a couple of times, and yet another took me duck hunting. It was all fun, but I never felt the urge to take up hunting. I was in my thirties before I ever shot a handgun, and close to forty before I ever bought one.

Winchester .22 lever action.

A bolt action 22 rifle. My Dad was in the Navy Armed Guard which ran the guns on merchant ships in WWII ( one of the most dangerous units in the war ) and he was an avid hunter. We lived near the Missouri river in North Dakota and he would throw a stick up stream and cut the stick in half several times with the 22 as it floated by. Pretty impressive for a kid. I'm still impressed.

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A Star model F .22lr.
A very accurate gun, shot my first 50points with it.
That is at 25meters single handed 5 shots

Mine was a pre 64 (1958) Model 94 in 32 Special. Dads deer rifle. It now lives with me.

single shot 22 that dropped the empty put the bottom into the palm of my hand. Held further forward after that one time. I have it and had to look on GB for the model # They have appreciated a bit... Mine is definitely not NIB
Item=255376649 if you want to look it up.

A Mossberg Model 152 in 1968, been hooked since the first pull of the trigger.

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1947- 12 gauge double barreled shotgun with exposed hammers.
Dad and a family friend helped me hold it on a fence post.
I shot at the moon. Must have missed as the moon is still there.

My dad died when I was quite young, but shooting was not a big thing in the UK, so I don't think he would ever have introduced me to it. However, shortly after he died my family visited an uncle on his farm. He had a rifle which he forgot to hand in after the war. He also had a box full of empty cartridge cases. My brothers and I played on the lawn, loading the empties and "shooting" each other. One of the empties looked a bit different. We showed it to my uncle. It was a live round. Ouch!!!!

We never played with that gun again. Don't know what the rifle was.

No-one plays with my guns.

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A bolt action Mossberg military trainer in .22, can't remember the model number, but I remember it sure was heavy for an 8 year old skinny kid.

Cheers;
Lefty

Browning Auto in .22 Short ......with the wheel sight.

Don

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Would've been back in '68 and it was a Ruger 10/22. It's still in my safe.

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J.C. Higgins Model 20 12 gauge pump shotgun. I was around 7 or 8 years old at the time (1968/69). We were at a friends cabin in Mississippi. The cabin had a deck that went partially out over the lake and mounted on the deck was a clay pigeon thrower. All the kids kept bugging the men to let us shoot one of the SG's. Dad propped the SG up on the hand rail on the side of the deck and let me shoot a coke can on the ground. I brought that mangled can and empty hull home as trophies. The Model 20 is in the safe, but the "Trophies" are long gone. That model 20 smacked down a few dove on opening day this year.

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Early 1950s, age 5 or 6. Shooting my grandfather's Remington 22 autoloader. Not sure what model it was - I had always assumed it was a 552, but I see now that the 552 didn't come out until 1957, so it must have been an earlier model. It was likely pre-WWII like his other guns. My grandfather only used it for killing hogs, as far as I know.

A .38 special M&P. My fathers police issue pistol.

Remington No.4 rolling Block .22. I restocked it. It is still quite accurate, despite having been thrown in the fire once, a long time ago, because it had been leaning up against the cord wood next to the hearth at Grandma's. None of my five uncles ever owned up to leaving it there. It spent years hanging on two nails over the back door, ready for henhouse/hog pen defense.

Ruger M-14 Ranch Rifle.

I went hunting today and came back empty handed as usual. Think I'll take up shooting the moon. Might have more success.

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