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

[Mike SC Hunter]

Mine was a Ruger Bearcat way back when someone else had to sign for me to get it. Started me on the road to handgun hunting. I terrorized the squirrels and coons with it. Second was Colt Frontier with adj. sights.
Third was a S&W nickel model 18 that I traded a Colt lightweight commander in 45 acp to a friend for during a rabbit hunt. We were in the woods and we just unbuckled and swapped holsters and guns. I still have and use that 18 and have added to the pile since then.

 

[pilgrim6a]

Ruger Standard Model 4.75". Paid $37.50 at the only gun/pawn shop in town.

 

[Iggy]

Ruger single six convertible bought in the late 50's. I still have it.

 

[ab4ka]

High Standard Sentinel Deluxe, nickel, 6" barrel. It belonged to my dad who gave it to me about 25 years ago. I have the box and all the paperwork. I bet I've put 10,000rds through it over the years and I think it's pretty much worn out, but I wouldn't take any other gun for it

 

[ScottJ]

My first .22 was my Ruger Mark II Target that I still have.

It was the second gun I ever bought (first being a pre-10 I wish I'd have never traded).

 

[model70hunter]

My first using gun was Dad's 3 Screw 4 5/8" Single Six. I learned with it. From th etime I was 12 through 21 is I shot many thousands of rounds in it. Dad is gone and I still have it. My personal 1st 22 was a Ruger 5 1/2" Bull bbl target 22. It was accurate but I traded it for a Ruger Stainless Single Six 22.

 

[murphydog]

A 4" model 63, which was so poorly constructed that I sold it and bought a 4" model 34-1 instead, which I still have.

 

[deanodog]

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

 

[jeffsmith]

Harrington & Richardson 4 inch 9 shot Revolver

It was also the very first Gun I bought myself

 

[stantheman86]

The first .22 handgun that I actually bought myself is the S&W 617 10-shot that I just bought NIB last month. It's already one of my favorites and I haven't even found the "perfect" grip for it yet.

I don't count the H&R Young American antique .22 Long pocket revolver I had for maybe a year, it wasn't really a "shooter" so I sold it.

I grew up shooting my Dad's S&W .22 semi, I don't know the model, the one with the barrel below the slide. But the first .22 LR handgun I actually went out and bought was that 617. I shoot it almost every day to "feed the need" to hear something go bang without having to drive to the range. Maybe someday my kids and grandkids will have "grandpas old stainless .22 revolver", I'm sure it will still be working fine by then!

 

[Marshal Tom]

K-22 Masterpiece in 1971. Sold it and have owned 4, 5 screws since then along with several Ruger Single Six's. I now have a 1948 5 screw in very nice shape and this one is staying.

T

 

[S&W-Keeper]

Mine was the old Browning Challenger, still have it.

 

[ab4ka]

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

Nice! I love the High Standard .22 revolvers. My father-in-law has one like yours that I hope to get my hands on one day.

 

[AirCommando]

A Colt Frontier Scout '62 with both cylinders (one was 22 Mag) bought new in 1962. Looked a lot like Deanodog's with plastic stag grips.

AC

 

[donaldw870]

Mine was a Ruger Mark II Stainless Target model, bought in the mid-1990s. Still have it, and it's one of my favorite guns to shoot. My second was a 17-2 that I bought from David Carrol a year or two ago. I'm pretty sure I'll never part with either of them.

 

[Smith357]

Thompson Center Contender with 10" 22lr match barrel.

 

[GyMac]

Mine was a Ruger Bearcat way back when someone else had to sign for me to get it. Started me on the road to handgun hunting. I terrorized the squirrels and coons with it. Second was Colt Frontier with adj. sights.
Third was a S&W nickel model 18 that I traded a Colt lightweight commander in 45 acp to a friend for during a rabbit hunt. We were in the woods and we just unbuckled and swapped holsters and guns. I still have and use that 18 and have added to the pile since then.

My first was a Colt New Frontier. I was actually able to afford to shoot that. It was actually my third handgun, the first two being a Ruger Blackhawk in .357 and a Combat Magnum.
.357's were unbelievably expensive at almost $8.00/50.
Chris

 

[ditrina]

SS Ruger Single Six .22/.22MAG

 

[Vulcan Bob]

A K-22 was my first, learned how to shoot with it and many a gray squirrel went into the pot when it went bang. Sadly I sold it off to finance my first IPSC gun.

 

[Jetsbud]

The dumbest thing ..

1'st one was a 6" heavy barreled Colt Officers Model Match .22. Selling it wasn't the Dumnest thing ... Or maybe it was.

 

[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.....