Do you Still have your first?

[CW Spook]

I don't have the first one I bought, but I do have my first gun, an 1898 Krag that was given to me when I was about 13. The first gun I bought for myself was a little Titan .25acp that I sold to a LEO friend a few years later.

 

[USAF385]

I still have the first handgun I bought: a 4" S&W 681.

The first gun I shot, my dad's Remington Fieldmaster 572.... I have that as well.

 

[Papaw]

I still have the Ruger Single Six I bought about 1970...I think it was 69 dollars. After many bricks fired it still shoots fine and is as solid as the day I bought it.

 

[bennettfam]

Yes. Still my favorite. Win 9422 purchased in 1974 from Raley's Drug Store for $97. Used my 8th grade graduation money and a whole summer's yard work proceeds to buy that puppy. Still shoots like new after running tens of thousands of rounds through it.

 

[Cyrano]

Mine was an Erfurt Luger. Bought it in College about 1953. It lacked the little spring that keeps the disassembly lever up. I made one from a paper clip that didn't work very well. Sold it about 1960.

 

[Marshwheeling]

I still have the CZs I bought in the early '90s, a 52 and a Vz.50. I got them as a pair from a buddy, along with a couple thousand rounds of 7.62x25 and a couple of boxes of 7.65 for the model 50. The Vz.52 is fun to shoot, but I actually like the little Model 50 better.

 

[teesur]

Here is my first gun which I bought and paid for myself. I was a 20 year old college student in 1957. 55 years later, I still have it.

And here is the box it came in "Hey Fred, get out the white stamp - I got a 6 inch K-22 to go out."

teesur.

 

[A10]

In 1971 I paid for a Ruger Single Six, but Dad had to buy it. 66 dollars out the door. It was stolen from me almost 30 years ago. It's OK, because I married the theif, and it still resides in the same house with me! She can out shoot me with it......

 

[perrazi]

first rifle i bought was a remington nylon 66 that i no longer have. first handgun was a model 27-1 with a 6in bbl that i still have.

 

[Kanewpadle]

I don't want to talk about it!

 

[Stainless44]

Here is my first gun which I bought and paid for myself. I was a 20 year old college student in 1957. 55 years later, I still have it.

THAT is a great gun and a great story!

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

My first purchase was Ruger 10-22 Delux with 2 spare mags and a brick of ammo. It was a "straw purchase" bought for me by my brother in the spring of 1974. I still have the gun and 4 mags. The first handgun purchase was a used 39-2 that I don't have anymore. My first shotgun was a Savage 20ga single shot I gave my oldest son around age 12, and my first center fire was a Universal M-1 carbine, that was stolen from the gunsmith (the gun and the smith were both junk). Ivan

 

[Hillbilly77]

My first gun was given to me, a cheap Sears & Roebuck bolt action 20 gauge. I still have it.

 

[Dalkowski110]

I've still got mine, a Gewehr 88/05 with Turkish property stamps. Shoots like a dream with US-made 8mm Mauser ammo. My first shotgun, a Savage Model 745C, I also have and use as my backup trap gun. You'd be surprised how well I can do with it...especially since I myself am! My first pistol was a Nagant M95 revolver and I still have that. Works great as a single-action gun, but the DA trigger is a nightmare. I shoot it single-action only. Granted, my parents helped fund the first two. In terms of buying with money I alone had earned, the first rifle was a Hungarian Mosin-Nagant M44 Carbine (sorta...I had a Norinco Type 84S-1 AK on layaway* at the time and did pay for that with my own money, but jumped at the Hungarian Mosin's $50 pricetag...they were going for $150 everywhere else) and the first shotgun was a Benelli Nova Riot Gun with ghost ring sights (vs. rifle sights), NIB, that is one of my personal favorite plinkers of any variety (rifle, pistol, or shotgun).

*The first and only time I've purchased a gun while another was on layaway.

 

[jaykellogg]

My first gun was purchased by me in 1965. It is a (used) Colt Woodsman that someone had chrome plated. I do not still have it, I gave it to my son to use to teach his kids to shoot with.

No regrets getting rid of it, I could borrow it back if I wanted. Two years ago I used it to take my CCW course. In the course I fired 40 rounds and the group was 2 inches. (My group was the best).

I have several other .22 handguns.

 

[tomtheturner]

Ruger Bearcat

While a boy I had a Steven's single shot .22 rifle {$7.00}, and a Montgomery Ward 16 gauge bolt action shotgun.{$15.00}

The first gun that I paid for completely by myself was a Ruger Bearcat. {$40.00} It was the least expensive revolver made by a reputable, "name brand" company at the time. I remember well how hard it was to get that $40.00 together.

I almost immediately started saving for a Ruger Single-Six .22/.22mag. $105.00. In time, that gave me the center-fire bug, and my next two purchases were a 6" nickle Python, and a nickle Cobra.

I still have all of the above, and taught my children to shoot with the Rugers, and the Stevens.

Best Wishes,
Tom

 

[David LaPell]

I don't have my first and I don't wish I had that one or my second one back. My first gun was a British .303 Enfield I bought for $75 and then after carrying it around for a bit during hunting season I thought better of it and bought a brand new Model 94 Winchester .30-30, the last year before they started adding the safety to them. Of all the .30-30's I owned it was horrible, the accuracy was awful. I bought my uncle the Model 94 right beside it on the shelf and his was better than most. I got rid of mine and had a few others here and there. I do wish I still had my first handgun, an Old Model Ruger Blackhawk .357 with the 4 5/8 inch barrel.

 

[deanodog]

My first was a high standard double nine 22lr. I still have it and have shot more from it than any other gun I have owned. Terrible double action trigger but single action is pretty good and it is accurate.

 

[CajunBass]

The first gun I ever bought? You gotta be kidding? I've bairly got the one I bought last week. I buy and trade 'em all the time.

The first gun I ever got was an Ithaca M-66, 20 ga single-shot. Santa bought it to me when I was about 14. That one is still around as far as I know. The last I heard of it, my son had it. When we split up my ex took it and said she gave it to my son. It wasn't worth fighting about, and I've never asked him about it.

The first one I ever bought for myself, was a Sears-Roebuck double 12. I worked all summer picking tomatoes for $5.00 a day to buy it. My mother ordered it for me from Sears, and the Sears truck delivered it a couple of days later, in those pre GCA-68 days.

First handgun was a Model 19. I kept it a year or so, then got bit by the IPSC bug, so I traded it off for a Colt Government Model.

I don't miss any of them really. I do keep an eye out at gun shows for a Sears double 12. I see a lot of Stevens 311's, but never a Sears gun. I don't know if I'd buy it or not. Thing was terribly muzzle heavy, or seemed that way to me back then.

The closest thing I've got is a Sears 12 pump gun, a rebadged Mossberg 500. I bought that one in 1977 for $99.00 with both the 28" Modified and a 24" smoothbore slug barrel. I've never fired the slug barrel, but with the modified barrel it's killed more than a few deer.

 

[petepeterson]

My first purchase was a S&W 915, my first carry gun. After deciding I didn't want to lug that weight around, I settled on a .380 Colt. I traded the 915 and $150 on a Browning Hi-Power, which I still have, 16 years later. I think I did pretty good on the trade, but I do miss that pistol a bit, now that I've started "accumulating" 3rd gens.

Other than a couple of pieces I had no use for, that was the only gun I've traded that I shouldn't have, so- Lesson learned!