Everybody made better choices than I did for sure. Between a lack of gun people around me and being fairly young and poor, I made the mistake of buying a Jennings J-22. I'd like to say that was the last garbage gun I bought but sadly it went from bad to worse... Thinking the problem was the rimfire round, I bought a Pheonix HP-25. Luckily, there's no place to go but up from such humble beginnings. There was an awful-but-adorable Lama .22 that looked like a 1911 and then I finally got wise and bought a Hi-Power. No more junk after that!
What was your first handgun purchase?
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samandglove1
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With my own money? It was a well used 1974 4" S&W 28-2 that I bought in a pawn shop in 1989 when I was in college in New Orleans. I was leaning towards a Beretta 92, but my fraternity brother (from Ft Worth) pointed at the Highway Patrolman and said I would like it more.
I still have it!!!
I still have it!!!
At 16 all I could afford was a .25 auto. I think it was a Spanish gun. At 19 I bought S&W .44 Spec. I guess at 16 I bought something that kind of resembled a pistol but at 19 I bought a real pistol. 
Larry
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Smith & Wesson Model 19 4" in 1980 or 81.
Gorgeous gun.
I blew it up in 1997. Long, sad story but nobody got hurt!
Gorgeous gun.
I blew it up in 1997. Long, sad story but nobody got hurt!
A stainless steel Ruger Super Single Six .22 LR/.22 Magnum. Got in in the late 1970s-early 1980s from a big sporting goods store in Newtown Square, PA. I still have it.
Bought my first hand gun used in 1985 and still have it all these years later. A 19-3 that shipped in 1969. She's been shot a lot but we'll cared for. The old girl still looks pretty good.
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Colt Combat Commander about a year out of high school but not with stocks shown.
Ruger Single Six with .22 and .22 Mag cylinders about 1966. Had fun with it until I sold it in the '70's to a friend who pestered me for ages to sell it to him.
Got serious with a 6" Mod 28 in 1972; it was stolen from my house in 1975, and was replaced with a 2-1/2" Mod 19 which I still had until a couple years ago when the canoe capsized in Lake Tahoe with all my guns as I was fleeing California - or was it fleeing Oregon and Crater Lake?
Got serious with a 6" Mod 28 in 1972; it was stolen from my house in 1975, and was replaced with a 2-1/2" Mod 19 which I still had until a couple years ago when the canoe capsized in Lake Tahoe with all my guns as I was fleeing California - or was it fleeing Oregon and Crater Lake?
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stanmerrell
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I got an RG 22 single action in 1974 for about $20 from a pawn shop. It was a piece of junk but I shot it until it broke and bought a new model 19 with a 6 inch barrel and target hammer and trigger for $225 a few years later. I still have it. The RG went in the garbage. Later, I had a buddy who told me RG stood for real garbage.
My first purchase was an H&R 676 .22 convertible. It was beautiful blue w/ case hardened frame. I was 13 at the time and I had spent the month of June helping my dad shingle houses. On Saturdays, we would go to the private dump behind his construction company and plink with his High Standard Double-Nine. One Saturday, we stopped by Brown's Loans and old man Brown pulled out a white and blue box and set it on the counter. He looked at me and said, "I think this is for you." I opened the box and there was my H&R. I looked up at my dad, who handed me a $100 bill and said that was for the work I did that month. If I wanted the H&R, I would have to pay the man. I walked out with my new H&R, a new S&W holster to fit it, 100 rds. of Remington .22 L.R. and close to $6 in my pocket. I smiled so much that hot Saturday afternoon that my teeth got sunburned.
jaysan60
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S&W 16-4. Didn't know what I had... New in box. Love it and caliber but rarely shoot it. Just like to look at it.
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Colt Government Model 380 ACP in 1987.
My carry gun for quite a few years.
My carry gun for quite a few years.
LVSteve
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IMI Baby Desert Eagle in 9mm, the Israeli original with the slide mounted safety and polygonal rifling. I still have it. If you run out of ammo you can beat the bad guy and his horse to death with no fear of damaging the gun.
Lmao at the OP, I'm not trying to poke fun at you but our first purchases were the SAME, it's just that apparently I rolled better than you did in the years that followed!From a friend of the family that was a kitchen table FFL I ordered my first ever purchase… 6-inch S&W Model 686-3. Combat hammer, combat trigger (both are my favorites) and goncalo alves targets with speedloader cutout. I had purchased the Pachmayr SK-G a week before the revolver arrived.
It was June of 1989 and I got it wholesale, I believe it was $315 in my hands. The original stocks came off within the first 10 minutes, the Pachmayr went on and has now been in use for wow, 32-plus years. Originals are stored.
Sheesh no, I did not sell it or trade it! I've still got it! BEB-serial prefix, if you wanna compare it to yours. Yeah I've still got the box! Who wouldn't still have the box?!
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