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

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. :)
 
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:)
 
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.
 
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.
 
deanodog said:
Here it is . A High Standard double nine. 67.00 new.
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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.
 
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....
 
Bought a Ruger single six convertible with the 5-1/2" barrel in about '96 and I still have it!
 
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.
 
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.
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My first 22lr handgun was a Beretta Mod 948, made in 1953. It looks like a slightly smaller Mod 1934.
Probably not most folks 22lr., but there it is.
I still have it.
 
A Colt Service Model Ace was first and a week later I bought a S&W 17 (-3 or -4). I had been to a shooting gallery at the shore that had S&W K22s. Shot it and had to have one. Ultimatley traded (regretfully) both off in the mid 90s but have replaced the 17. Don't know if I'll ever be able to replace the Ace, it was very accurate.
 
Stag gripped K22 Dad got in 1952 or 3 that I "borrowed" in 1953. I returned it and it got sold for about two bags of groceries in Reno in '53.

Regards,

Tam 3
 
Mine was a Colt Frontier Scout. Couldn't hit the side of a barn with it. Traded it for a S&W K22 (was in the mid 60's and wasn't educated enough to remember if was a Mod 17 or a K22) Traded that off for a High Standard Victor, which I still have and still shoot.
 
Ruger Standard Model 6" tapered barrel made about 1981.

Have acquired other 22lr over time, Buckmark, Walther, Sig and S&W Mod 34 and 18.
 
I can't remember if it was a Ruger standard auto or a Colt frontier scout. I think I had the Colt before the Ruger.
 
Late 1959....Smith & Wesson Model 34 .22/32 Kit gun. Kept it until 1963 when I traded it to a friend of mine for a Ruger Single-six..........
 
Early production, 1980, I think, M63 no dash. I still have it and it's the "always goes to the range" gun.
 
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This. Only it was blue. Bought in 1961 for a sidearm when hunting doves in Eastern OR. Couldn't hit a thing with it. Sold it in the 80's for some bad reason. I bought the nickel Kit for nostalgia. I have actually hit 2 prairie dogs with it and have found it to be a sweet little revo. I would really like to trade it straight across for another LNIB version in blue.
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Grips numbered to the gun, papers, box, no tools... looking for blue.
 
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My first was a single action Heritage Rough Rider.
Sold it for a Beretta Bobcat (also a 22lr)
 
Malysh, was that Beretta also sold as the Jaguar? I have a 3" that shoots great. Single action auto, fixed sights. Don't see too many around.
 
Maylysh/Bennettfam:
I have my dad's Beretta 948 that I got when he passed away. And I have a beretta Jaguar that I bought for $100 way back in the 70's. To me the 948 is more accurate than the Jaguar. Both will always have a home here.
The 948 has both front and rear sight on the slide and 2 piece grips wiht exposed frame. The Jaguar as you know has the rear sight on the slide and the front sight on the barrel with 2 piece wrap around grips around a skeleton frame.
 
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I was single back in 1970. Had the money and bought a Colt Woodsman Match Target pistol new. Had a lot of fun with it. Got married. We had baby + adopted 2 rug rats. Needed money for groceries, etc. Sold the Colt with box & papers in early 70's for $75.00!!! Also sold a like new Sako Finnbear in .270 with Redfield scope (threw in all the ammo I had) for about $150? (hard to remember!). Now my youngest (the chip off the old gun nut block) can't stand to hear me tell the story of the $75 Colt. I tell him that he was the one drinking the milk, not me!
 
Late to the show, just turned 55 last week and only got my pistol permit in July. One of the reasons was I got this from the estate of a friend that passed away, 1942 Woodsman Sport. It was the push I needed to go through the rigmarole and mountain of paperwork but it was worth it.

In the last month I have also gotten two K-22's a 1955 and a 1957, a 1953 .22/.32 Airweight Kit gun and a 2" chrome 34-1 just like driheats.

Best slow down for a while...


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My first handgun was a Ruger Blackhawk .45 Colt, 7.5 inch barrel. It was actually the first handgun I ever pulled the trigger on. Saved up and got it when I was sixteen and shot it a LOT. (Found a used reloader) Things were a lot different back then.

First .22 was about 15 years later, a Ruger Mk II four inch barrel, fixed sight. Never really shot it a lot--it didn't really "talk" to me.

Got a 17-3 about eight years ago and love it. Ended up trading (partial trade) the Ruger for this 1947 K22:

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Bought my first .22 pistol while in the Army in Germany in 1961. S&W Mod 53 with both cylinders. Sold it to a German friend in 1964 and he still has it. I shoot it when I visit with him.
Stu
 
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