Adding To The .22LR Thread, What was Your First .22 Hangun?

[Frailer]

A Ruger Single Six, which I bought the week I turned 21 in 1984. Like an idiot, I sold it a few years later.

 

[Grayfox]

A Colt Junior in .22 short. As I recall, I gave about $75 for it used. At the time I was looking for a small pocket pistol. But even back then .22 shorts were hard to find and about double the cost of LRs. So I ended up selling it. Foolish me.

 

[smitty_bs]

Here's mine, a Ruger SingleSix convertable w/6.5"bbl.

 

[SgtSam]

Ruger Super Single Six! Bought it in February, or March, not sure now, of 1972. It was a coming home from Vietnam present to myself. I still have it. Someday my Son will get it, but not as long as I'm still breathing.

 

[Bat Guano]

When I was 17, my parents humored me and drove me and my $25 over the state line, where I bought a Ruger Standard Auto .22 for cash. NO paperwork. Needless to say this was a few years back...

Sold the gun later on to help finance a SAA Colt. The Ruger was eventually replaced by an ugly beater that shoots very well. Wish I had kept the original .22 but at least I still have the Colt.

 

[hittman77]

My first 22 was in the early 70's ~ a Ruger Single Six.

 

[Buford57]

Colt Frontier Scout in .22 Mag. A few years later, while working in another local gun shop I found a new in the bag .22 LR cylinder in a junk drawer that dropped right in and indexed like a dream. Left it with my Dad when I was out of the country and he kept it. I got it back when he passed and my son has it now.

It was replaced, back then, with a 9 1/2 inch flattop Single Six, which I still have.

 

[cjcutter1]

Ruger Single Six

 

[madmikeb]

Ruger Standard Auto, had the "Made in the 200th Year of American Liberty" inscription on the barrel. I paid $65 brand new, since I was only 15 at the time my mom had to sign for it for me!

 

[KEN L]

Star Model FRS 4"

I was about 19 or 20 at the time. Old guy at a flea market had it. Don't remember exactly what I paid for it, but I'm guessing about $20 or $25. I couldn't have been much, cause my financial status at that point in my life was pretty much non existent. Anyway, I was the proverbial cat that just ate the canary. To me that was the coolest gun ever. It kinda looked like a mini .45 auto and it shot .22's. Still one of the most accurate .22s I've ever owned. Don't remember what ever happened to it, but I'm guessing I probably traded it for something else I couldn't live without. In those days something had to be so that others could join the fold.....

 

[AZ S&W Guy]

I bought a 6 inch Colt Peacemaker with the 22lr and 22mag cylinders in July of 1973, two months after high school graduation and two months before I turned 18. I still have it, but got rid of the box way back then. Who knew you were supposed to keep boxes.

 

[gr8smiles]

Bought a Browning Buckmark on layaway back in the early 90s...just married, new kids, cost 179
Still have it...bought my first K22 this summer...a 17-4...now I have 11 22 handguns...can you tell my favorite? Busted the seal on a 617 4" 10 shot today....love the new 10 shot..easy to load and a blast to shoot

 

[PMRet]

In 1980 I had my local shop order me a brand new Model 17 (don't remember the dash) from the J&G Sales ad in Shotgun News. A few months later, in March of 1981, I traded it for a Model 29. I was on the way to a hardware store a few miles away to make the trade when I heard on the radio that President Reagan had been shot.

My .22 arsenal now consists of a 4.5" Model 2206 and a 4" Model 617.

 

[nutsforsmiths]

The first 22 pistol I shot was my dad's J.C. Higgins Model 80, which is actually a Hi Standard Duramatic.

The first 22 I bought was a 48-3. I bought it used in 1990 and I still have it. My dad also still has his J.C. Higgins as well.

 

[bennettfam]

Colt Peacemaker, short barrel, convertible. Wish I still had it. (anybody else ever make that wish?)

 

[Jimmymac46]

Here it is . A High Standard double nine. 67.00 new.

My first 22 handgun also.....the High Standard Double Nine. Traded it or sold it over 45 years ago and this thread made me recall the great times I had with the gun. Fun, reasonably accurate, reliable, and cheap.....especially for a teenager. Thanks for the photo, I had forgot precisely what it look like.

 

[Elmer]

A Colt Service Ace upper end that came with the first handgun bought on my own, a mint GI 1911A1. I paid $200 for it, the conversion unit, and a bunch of GI ball .45 from a schoolmate's Dad. Being young and dumb, I decided I didn't need a .22, and I listed the conversion unit in the paper for $50.

Sold it at 6:30 AM the day the ad came out. Got calls on it for months......

What a dummy....

 

[fgn40]

Bought a Ruger single six convertible with the 5-1/2" barrel in about '96 and I still have it!

 

[alwslate]

My first 22 handgun was a real clunker, an RG revolver in 22 short I
aquired back in the mid 60's. I was upset when it failed to penetrate
one side of a rusty trash barrel. Have a dozen or so others at present,
no RG's alas.

 

[fyimo]

My first 22 handgun that I owned and still own is a Ruger Mark II that I bought in the 1980's. I own many 22 revolvers and pistols now but the Ruger will never be sold as it still has a warm place in my heart.