What was your first gun?

[SharkmanDan]

I find it ironic, that it get an email about this thread, and the two guns posted in the email, are a Remington 572 Fieldmaster, and a Remington Nylon 66.
In 1969, I was 9, my sister was 12. Our grandfather put us through the local NRA Junior Rifle Club, sponsored by the local Elks Lodge, of which dad and grandpa, both belonged.
Once we completed the rifle safety course, and hunter safety course, we were each given a rifle. Me, a Remington 572 Fieldmaster, and my sister got the Nylon 66. We each still have those rifles, in our safes. Both of us, plan to pass them on to our grandchildren.
More irony, the third photo in this thread, is a Stevens Crack Shot. That was the first rifle I bought all on my own. I think I paid $8 or $9 from a friend, who just had to have a Marlin 60, and needed that much more, to get it. I'd been saving for a bicycle, but the rifle seemed like a real worthwhile investment. Still have it, too.


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[wyccad915]

My first gun was an SD9VE. I wish I had received one at a younger age, but I went out and bought mine at the age of 22. That was only a couple of years ago and I now have a total of 9. I don't own anything too extravagant. The most expensive guns I own are $400 tops. I actually own 3 Mosin Nagants and a cheap .22 heritage revolver, so half my lot I purchased for less than $150 a piece.

I don't own a shotgun, and I don't own an AR15, but both are high on my list for next purchase.

 

[Muley Gil]

This has probably been posed as a thread before. But, I thought it would make for some interesting reading.

I am 67 y/o and my first gun was given to me at age 8 by my grandfather. It was a Stevens over and under .22 LR on top and .410 on the bottom. Cannot even begin to guess how many squirrels and rabbits met their demise at the wrong end of that little gun.

BTW: I still have it.

Bob

That was my 2nd gun. Mine had belonged to my granddaddy who bought it at the beginning of WW II. He wanted something to get rid of the bunnies that raided his garden.

It's got the plastic Tennite stock and fore end. The buttstock has a metal plug threaded into it for storage.

 

[Muley Gil]

Mine was an Ithaca-Model 49 Saddlegun. My 12th birthday present. (seemed much bigger then...) I still have it.

That was my first gun also. Got it for my 15th birthday.

 

[Tom K]

Ruger 10/22 about 1973 when I was sixteen. My older brother bought it for me as wages for working for him on the farm one summer. I still have it, unmodified, and just shot it a few days ago after sitting many years in my safe. With the stock open sights (rear notch and front brass bead), I shot better groups with it at 60 yds than I did with a customized 10/22 with bull barrel and scope.

 

[Cyrano]

My first was this Marlin 22 my folks gave me in the fall of 1946. I was 13 years old. It is a Marlin 81DL, tube fed, and it originally had an aperture sight that was adjustable with difficulty. I finally got it on target at 100 yards and left it alone. It taught me to shoot. The clubby stock and plastic trigger guard were from the first post WW II production. I later put the Weaver D6 (I think) on it. It's fired many bricks of high velocity ammo and is a little long in the headspace but I still shoot it occasionally to let it know I still love it.

The first gun I bought myself was an Erfurt Luger. Had it almost 10 years before I sold it.

 

[Ματθιας]

My dad had firearms but they, at the time, really weren't mine.

The first firearm I could call my own was an AK. I bought a used SA85m, on my 18th B-day in the early 90s. The store owner let me put it on on a three month layaway before my b-day. I was still in HS and working at McDs for $3.35 an hour and every week I put something down even it was just $5. I was happy when I finally brought it home but it was a little bittersweet - I found the chase was a little more fun than the catch. I still do.

I still have it.

 

[inspcalahan]

Shot a few guns before it, but my first all mine was a JC Higgins .20 GA I still have. Will never get rid of it.... Probably could use new springs though.

 

[locolobo56]

My first "real" gun was a Marlin/Glenfield Bolt action 410. Got it and a box of shells for Christmas when I was 12. By the end of the day the whole box of shells were gone and we had a pile of fried squirrel for dinner. First one I purchased was an H&R 20 ga. when I was 14. I paid $5 a week from my weekend job til it was paid for. The 410 was stolen from the parents home after I left home but the H&R is still in my arsenal along with a 30-30 barrel for it that was my first deer rifle. I signed it over to my son when he was 14 but it still resides in my safe.

 

[bunkshaner]

My first gun I got for Christmas when I was 7 years old. It was a H&R junior .410 single shot then I graduated up to the same gun in a 20 gauge when I was 8 the following Christmas. I still have both guns. Those 2 Christmas' were the best ever and most memorable. Stopped believing in jolly ol' st Nick not long after....Christmas was never the same

I also still have my dad's first gun which I just grabbed the other day to clean for him was a Western Auto Supply bolt action .410 I think it was bought new in mid 60s

 

[Faulkner]

I had access to all kinds of rifles and shotguns growing up that belonged to my father and grandfather. I was hunting with one gun or another of theirs from a young age.

But the first gun that actually belonged to me was a Browning BL-22 Deluxe Grade II that I bought with lawn mowing money at 14 years old. I still have it and use it and there's not telling how much meat it's put in the skillet and varmits taken near the hen house. I've take around a dozen coyotes with it.

 

[islamoradamark]

my first gun shooting was a 22 when i used to shoot on a NRA course back when i was in 9th grade when i was 18 i bought a nice browning hi power 9mm

 

[HOUSTON RICK]

Around the turn of the century, a friend was kind enough to take me to a gun show in Medina, Ohio and help me negotiate the purchase of an S&W Model 910 and take me out for some starter lessons. It has been a nice. no frills pistol, and will I believe be part of my estate.

 

[JeffShrugged]

My first gun was a handgun, got it when I turned twenty-one. It was a Smith & Wesson 2214. I had it for about a year before I traded it in on a Glock 19.

 

[DR505]

Remington Nylon 66 Apache Black. Still have it.

And here is my first S&W, a model 27-3 4" I bought for my first LE academy:

 

[Qball]

Well... apart from a few capguns my first very own gun was this modell 17-2

Still got it, and it still shoots Very accurate

first gun i shot was a Star model F .22 that belonged to my father

 

[FishingPilot]

Mine was a H&R youth size single shot 20 gauge. I still have it. I just recently reblued it and finished the stock and forend. I will post a pic later.

 

[newkid]

First Gun

A Stevens single shot, bolt action .22

 

[Prodigal Son]

Stevens single shot .410 and I still have it. It will be my son's first gun, too!

 

[vt_shooter]

First firearm: A browning .22 semi-auto that I worked at a Mcdonald's part time for 5 months to save up enough to buy it.