Forester
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Marlin model 60.
Whats the first gun your dad let you shoot?
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kraigwy
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A Model #3 Smith in 44 Russian, he got it from his father, who got it from his father, and will go to my oldest.
I got a good hammer bite. He kept telling me to stick my arms out, after a while he got tired of telling me and I learned the hard way.
I got a good hammer bite. He kept telling me to stick my arms out, after a while he got tired of telling me and I learned the hard way.
Stevens "Favorite" .22. Belonged ot a great uncle. He paid $2.50 for it new.
I started hunting alone at 10. Spent most Sunday afternoons hunting and walked miles and miles doing so.
I killed hundreds of jack rabbits with it. Paid for my gas in highschool.
Still have it.
I started hunting alone at 10. Spent most Sunday afternoons hunting and walked miles and miles doing so.
I killed hundreds of jack rabbits with it. Paid for my gas in highschool.
Still have it.
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617X10
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The first firearm I ever shot was a worn out M-16(not A1) in basic training for the Air Force. I got the bug though, and gave it back to my dad. The bad part is, he now has more Smiths than me! 586, 648, 29-2, and M&P9C. Dang it, twice as many as me! That's what I get for sneaking back to the store and grabbing my 617 before he could.
When I was about 10 my dad let me shoot cans off a fence post at our camp with his Winchester Model 69 .22 bolt-action. Been hooked on shooting ever since. His uncle bought it new for dad in 1937 and now I have it. Kept handy as my go to medicine for various 4-legged marauding miscreants plundering around the home front. It is still an accurate little bugger too.
anglaispierre
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Pigeons, pheasants, rabbits, hares, foxes, wild boar, and in some cases deer. There are some wild boar in the area, but I have never seen one. Deer have to be tagged as soon as they are shot and as an individual I can't get tags. Shooting them without tags is illegal. I'm going on a deer hunt next Saturday. The local hunt that I belong to is allocated 11 or 12 for the season.
The season for hare is very short and ended yesterday. It's a conservation thing. That's why I was out, hoping to get one on the last day. Didn't see any. Saw a couple of pheasants but they got away. I was too slow.
sureshotbob
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The only gun my Dad ever had was a WWII Japanese type 99 rifle . My Mother made him get rid of it when I started showing intrest in it in the late 50's
{I now have 5 t99's & 2 t38's 
}. The first gun I shot was a Remington 12 ga.model 870 wingmaster that I bought from a guy I worked with for $75.00 back in 1973 I was 18 years old. It was a down hill slide since then
. My Mother never could understand my love of firearms to this day. The only time I ever shot with my Dad was when I was 19 years old we went to Canada to deer hunt .He borrowed a 30-30 to use I had bought a new Remington 742 30-06
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{I now have 5 t99's & 2 t38's }. The first gun I shot was a Remington 12 ga.model 870 wingmaster that I bought from a guy I worked with for $75.00 back in 1973 I was 18 years old. It was a down hill slide since then. My Mother never could understand my love of firearms to this day. The only time I ever shot with my Dad was when I was 19 years old we went to Canada to deer hunt .He borrowed a 30-30 to use I had bought a new Remington 742 30-06.tomtheturner
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My First Gun
One evening when I was seven, or eight years old { 1950s} my Father said, "Get in the car & come with me." We ended up at a Gun Shop in the next town over, and he bought me a used single shot Stevens .22 bolt action with a cut-down stock. He paid $7.00.
When he got off work in the afternoons he would put me behind the wheel of his 55 Chevy, I sat on a box, and he worked the clutch, and we would drive out of town to the city dump. I remember driving right past the City Cop. You could do those things in a small town back then. At the City Dump we would shoot glass bottles, and jars until dusk then the rats came out. There were so many that the whole hill seemed to be moving. There were no lasers, or tactical lights back then. I learned to shoot the rats without sights, since it was relatively dark when they came out.
I would tote that rifle "up-town" to the local Hardware Store where I could buy 10 .22 longs for ten cents, I didn't have the money very often for a full box, and take her to the woods.
Today, an eight year old driving a car, a kid walking down the street with a rifle, and city dumps full of rats are things of the past. The Stevens single-shot is now in my son's gun safe, as the first gun that he ever shot. Also, now that my eyes aren't as good, learning how to point shoot is coming in handier than ever.
Tom
One evening when I was seven, or eight years old { 1950s} my Father said, "Get in the car & come with me." We ended up at a Gun Shop in the next town over, and he bought me a used single shot Stevens .22 bolt action with a cut-down stock. He paid $7.00.
When he got off work in the afternoons he would put me behind the wheel of his 55 Chevy, I sat on a box, and he worked the clutch, and we would drive out of town to the city dump. I remember driving right past the City Cop. You could do those things in a small town back then. At the City Dump we would shoot glass bottles, and jars until dusk then the rats came out. There were so many that the whole hill seemed to be moving. There were no lasers, or tactical lights back then. I learned to shoot the rats without sights, since it was relatively dark when they came out.
I would tote that rifle "up-town" to the local Hardware Store where I could buy 10 .22 longs for ten cents, I didn't have the money very often for a full box, and take her to the woods.
Today, an eight year old driving a car, a kid walking down the street with a rifle, and city dumps full of rats are things of the past. The Stevens single-shot is now in my son's gun safe, as the first gun that he ever shot. Also, now that my eyes aren't as good, learning how to point shoot is coming in handier than ever.
Tom
The first gun my father ever let me shoot was a small .32 S&W chambered top-break revolver made by H&R. It was blued. I remember it was heavy. And I remember it was fun. We were maybe 8-9 yrs. old. My twin brother and I were given .22 LR Winchester 190's for Christmas. Wonder! I still have that rifle. I "customized" it while a student in seminary by staining the stock w/ brown shoe polish followed with several applications of Birchwood Casey True Oil. I then ordered Demibart checkering tools (!!!), practiced on some wood scrap and then proceeded to checker the rifle using a simple wrap around panel design. It actually turned out very nice. I went slowly and after about a week it was finished. I used it last year in a club match for .22 LR rifles. I was at a disadvantage with the factory iron sights, but I enjoyed simply having it at the range. It was at that exact same range where my father first allowed me to shoot the above mentioned pistol. Sweet memories.
cincinnatijim
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Winchester 1903. Loved that rifle. My younger son has it now.
BearBio
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High Standard 22 with a 4" barrel.
Remington Sportsman 48 12ga shotgun.
It was his very first 'new' gun ever.
..and an Anschutz .22 rifle he brought back from WW2.
I was 4y/o.
He had to help hold them of course.
Targets were glass Xmas tree ornaments hung on hillside grape vines in an old vineyard.
I still have the Anschutz 22 and my brother has the Sportsman 48. Both still see the range and the 48 goes duck hunting (and shows it).
It was his very first 'new' gun ever.
..and an Anschutz .22 rifle he brought back from WW2.
I was 4y/o.
He had to help hold them of course.
Targets were glass Xmas tree ornaments hung on hillside grape vines in an old vineyard.
I still have the Anschutz 22 and my brother has the Sportsman 48. Both still see the range and the 48 goes duck hunting (and shows it).
1903A3. It was the only gun in the house. He bought it around 1960 through NRA at Red River Arsenal, where he worked. I was 11.
A Winchester 67 my maternal Great Grandfather bought new in 1935. The rifle is now my daughters. For most of his post military life the Winchester 67 and a Winchester 97 were the only firearms my dad owned. In the early 1980's he mentioned wanting a 22 pistol so for Christmas I bought him a 6" Ruger MkI, which mom gave back to me after he died.
OLDFED
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Colt 1903 .32ACP. It's still in the family.
Black_Talon
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My dad never let me shoot a gun, he's extremely bleeding heart liberal and very anti-gun. My parents even confiscated a toy Colt SAA set that I was given for Christmas when I was 5 y.o.
My uncle was the first person to let me shoot a gun. It was a WWII P-38 and a Ruger 22 auto when I was around 8-10 y.o.
My uncle was the first person to let me shoot a gun. It was a WWII P-38 and a Ruger 22 auto when I was around 8-10 y.o.
Gutpile Charlie
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My dad didn't "let me shoot" anything. At age fourteen, I marched into the Montgomery Ward store, bought a new, on sale, Mossberg 146B for $25.00.
Rode home with it on my Cushman motor scooter.....took it down to the river.....and commenced shooting.
Yes folks, it was a different time and place.
Rode home with it on my Cushman motor scooter.....took it down to the river.....and commenced shooting.
Yes folks, it was a different time and place.
Rich King
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1st gun shot
My first experience shooting was with my dad, It was 1951 & I was 8 and I went along with "PA" out to a farm where he hunted ducks. After he was done hunting and we were headed back to the car I asked him if I could shoot his gun, he said yup. See that big tree with that grey moss spot on it, hit it. I did and he laughed. I still have the memory and the gun is in my gun cabnet, a Browning A5 Sweet-Sixteen 16ga. ahhh great memories. Thanks for starting this thread.
Regards,
Rich King
My first experience shooting was with my dad, It was 1951 & I was 8 and I went along with "PA" out to a farm where he hunted ducks. After he was done hunting and we were headed back to the car I asked him if I could shoot his gun, he said yup. See that big tree with that grey moss spot on it, hit it. I did and he laughed. I still have the memory and the gun is in my gun cabnet, a Browning A5 Sweet-Sixteen 16ga. ahhh great memories. Thanks for starting this thread.
Regards,
Rich King
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