deadin
US Veteran
First was his Winchester M74. Then he bought me a Springfield (Stevens) M15 single shot to use on my own.
Whats the first gun your dad let you shoot?
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He didn't,but when I started hunting in my early twenties,he gave me his old 30-06.His only gun.
Bullzaye
US Veteran
The first gun I ever fired was an M-16 in USAF basic training. I guess you could say that my Father "let" me shoot it, inasmuch as he had to sign my enlistment papers, since I was only 17 at the time.
While he owned at least 7 guns (including 3 WWII "bring-backs") when I was a kid, he never offered to educate me at all about guns, or asked me if I even had any interest. I think this was in part (if not entirely) because my Mother wasn't too keen on guns, which I believe stemmed from her Father's suicide when she was a child. I think my Mother initially was somewhat concerned as my interest in firearms (and the resulting collection) grew ever larger, but eventually she calmed down and accepted it.
Tim
While he owned at least 7 guns (including 3 WWII "bring-backs") when I was a kid, he never offered to educate me at all about guns, or asked me if I even had any interest. I think this was in part (if not entirely) because my Mother wasn't too keen on guns, which I believe stemmed from her Father's suicide when she was a child. I think my Mother initially was somewhat concerned as my interest in firearms (and the resulting collection) grew ever larger, but eventually she calmed down and accepted it.
Tim
RIDE-RED 350r
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Ruger 10/22
My first stepfather owned an original Cot Bisley chambered in .45 Colt. I was five years old and that was the first firearm I ever fired. Hit myself in the forehead with the hammer. 
".22 lever action single shot ithica."
My second stepfather, who I consider my Dad, talked my mother and grandmother into letting me have one of those on my 15th birthday. It's in the safe as we speak.
Back in May, I was visiting Mom and Pappy and as I was fixin' to leave, he handed me a guncase that contained a 1911A1 that had been fitted with target sights AND a 1939 .22 LR Colt Service Ace.
Thanks, Pappy!!!!
".22 lever action single shot ithica."
My second stepfather, who I consider my Dad, talked my mother and grandmother into letting me have one of those on my 15th birthday. It's in the safe as we speak.
Back in May, I was visiting Mom and Pappy and as I was fixin' to leave, he handed me a guncase that contained a 1911A1 that had been fitted with target sights AND a 1939 .22 LR Colt Service Ace.
Thanks, Pappy!!!!
dcxplant
Member
SW Model 60 38 snubbie off the balcony.
It's in my safe; box and all.
It's in my safe; box and all.
bushmaster1313
Member
My dad never let me shoot a gun, and would be upset if he knew I had one, let alone many.
Still, he is the greatest.
I love you Dad!
Still, he is the greatest.
I love you Dad!
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The first one I fired was my dads .30-30 Winchester. It is sitting in my gun closet now. The second was a handgun, the 38/44 heavy duty that is also in the closet. I lost dad last week, and his services were this past Thursday. He gave me alot, great memories, bird and deer hunting, my first rifle, and helped me buy my first handgun, a .22 single six my wife now claims as her own.
Great thread, thanks for starting it!
Great thread, thanks for starting it!
belairdave
Member
Whats the first "real" non-BB-gun your dad ever let you shoot.
Mine was a single barrel stevens .410 I shot a 3" #8 remington bird shot....I still got the ol' green plastic hull.
Winchester, bolt action single shot with 22 shorts... Was my dads and grampas before that... It's around here somewhere... Later, Dave
6thtexas
Member
The first rifle I ever fired was the Ithaca Model 49.22 single shot I got for my 7th birthday, but the first handgun was my Dad's .22 Jet. When I was 5, I got to shoot a couple of shorts through the rimfire cylinder. That S&W got swapped off when I was about 10. My Dad still wishes he had kept that one.
Rifle: A 6 mm Flobert Rimfire with ca. 6 years in his shop.
Pistol: Dad's servicegun SIG 210-2 9 mm Luger with ca. 7 - 8 years. I will never forget it. I shot supported at 50 meters
at the offcial precision-target. I hit the 9-ring, a bit low and left.
Swissman
Pistol: Dad's servicegun SIG 210-2 9 mm Luger with ca. 7 - 8 years. I will never forget it. I shot supported at 50 meters
at the offcial precision-target. I hit the 9-ring, a bit low and left.
Swissman
My dad didn't shoot or own guns, but he had no objection if a neighbor kid's dad wanted to teach me to shoot. So the first gun I ever shot was some kind of single-shot .22, at age 9 or 10. Another kid's dad took me pheasant hunting a couple of times, and yet another took me duck hunting. It was all fun, but I never felt the urge to take up hunting. I was in my thirties before I ever shot a handgun, and close to forty before I ever bought one.
Mule88
Member
Winchester .22 lever action.
7shooter
Member
A bolt action 22 rifle. My Dad was in the Navy Armed Guard which ran the guns on merchant ships in WWII ( one of the most dangerous units in the war ) and he was an avid hunter. We lived near the Missouri river in North Dakota and he would throw a stick up stream and cut the stick in half several times with the 22 as it floated by. Pretty impressive for a kid. I'm still impressed.
MarineSgtjimh
US Veteran
Mine was a pre 64 (1958) Model 94 in 32 Special. Dads deer rifle. It now lives with me.
mwtdvm
Member
Winchester 55
single shot 22 that dropped the empty put the bottom into the palm of my hand. Held further forward after that one time. I have it and had to look on GB for the model # They have appreciated a bit... Mine is definitely not NIB
Item=255376649 if you want to look it up.
single shot 22 that dropped the empty put the bottom into the palm of my hand. Held further forward after that one time. I have it and had to look on GB for the model # They have appreciated a bit... Mine is definitely not NIB
Item=255376649 if you want to look it up.
A Mossberg Model 152 in 1968, been hooked since the first pull of the trigger.
1947- 12 gauge double barreled shotgun with exposed hammers.
Dad and a family friend helped me hold it on a fence post.
I shot at the moon. Must have missed as the moon is still there.
Dad and a family friend helped me hold it on a fence post.
I shot at the moon. Must have missed as the moon is still there.
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