Whats the first gun your dad let you shoot?

[oldogy]

Late 1940s. A single shot 22 that I believe was of German origin.

 

[J. W.]

For the most part, my grandfather taught me to shoot and though I can't remember now, it would have almost certainly been one of his 6" Colt Official Police's. He's got two, one in .22LR and the other a .38 Special that was his first sidearm as WVSP Trooper issued to him in the mid 50's.

 

[Diamondtreo]

Springfield or Stevens (same company, I think), single shot, bolt action .22 that my dad learned to shoot with in the 1920's. I still have it & by far the most accurate .22 sans scope I have in the safe. I still love the wide buckhorn rear sight & front gold bead combination. This one must have been a mid-range or higher rifle as it is a cock-on-closing action versus hand-cock striker that were more common back then.

 

[hd28cw]

ahh the memories< gotta love em

 

[chud333]

Can't remember which was first but it was either Grandpaws
Savage .22lr over 410 break open, or H&R topper model 20
gauge break open single shot.
Lots of groundhogs and squirrels fell to those two old guns.

Chuck

 

[s1mp13m4n]

I was ten years old when my dad took me to a friends autoshop that had a junkyard in the back. I thought we were just going out just to go visit his friend, but on the way we stopped at the local Western Auto in dad's small town and bought 12gauge bird shot and slugs. We were out back in this junk yard and dad found this old rusty beater that he said was too far gone to get parts off of and restore, so that was the target. The first gun I ever shot was my grand father's Savage 12 gauge double barrel side by side shotgun. My dad is not a gun person and I am not sure why he has the guns but he has that and my grand father's 410 single shot Savage.

 

[puckforbrains]

Mossberg 20g pump,still have it.

 

[Fuquayvarina]

The little 22 in my avatar and the date was early 1942 somewhere in SW Texas. (Presidio county I think)

Don't know where the rifle went though. We started moving around with the US Army.

 

[yardman4]

AH Fox Sterlingworth...12 gauge...low brass paper Remington #6. We stood an ear of corn up in the mud. I shot most of the kernels off one side of the ear. This was 1957 when I was 8 years old.

 

[O2Guy]

An old single barrel 12 Ga shotgun that his dad had passed on to him. It has "Wide Awake" on the receiver and lives up to it's name. That thing nearly screwed me into the ground when I pulled the trigger. I still have the gun today.

 

[chriss2760]

A Winchester 1892 in .25-20. Dad died when I was 12 and as a young man I foolishly let it get away from me. At least I still have his shotgun.

 

[everReady Rob]

My dad never owned a gun, never. I didn't get interested in guns until many years after I left home. Now I own several and really enjoy this hobby.

BTW, he was a GREAT dad, been gone for 25 years and I still miss him.

 

[guy22]

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.

A WWII surplus M1 Carbine. Got to shoot a full 10 round mag, at ~ 6 years old. Still have it and love it.
Guy22

 

[kcabear]

The first gun I shot was a crack barrel .410, I was about 7 and I was too short to see out the duck blind so my grandfather brought me a bucket to stand on. He would call in a flock of ducks and let them land in the pond and he would cock the gun for me and I would shoot the ducks on the water. Since he passed away 8 years ago I no longer have the urge or want to go hunting anymore.
My first rifle I shot was a Buckskin Tan Remington Fieldmaster 572 pump action aluminum .22lr rifle that my dad got from his dad.

 

[DeadAye]

1935 Winchester M12 12ga in the late 50s.
We were pheasant hunting in central Illinois (somewhere) - I was one of the dogs
He balanced the gun on his shoulder and I shot (and killed) a rabbit.
And so it begins.....................

I still have the 12 - UNFORTUNATELY when in my late 20s I tore up my knee and had to sit in a chair for a couple of weeks - NO cable, satellite or internet back then.
The shotgun's stock was cracked. So - I buy a new one, sand it, oil & rub it and oil & rub it and rub it - Beautiful. Threw the original stock away and put the new one on.
I could kick myself - The beautiful stock just doesn't look right on the old gun
I sure wish I'd kept the original......
The stock of the 12 had a crack in it.

 

[armenius]

Either a Remington single shot 2 1/2 in. .410 or a S&W 32Long I frame.I was 5Yrs. old and I never stopped.That was 73 years ago.I just climbed down from a tree 4 hours ago with a Model 57 I bought unfired last year.I'm hoping to get it bloody before the deer season is out.God has been good to me!

 

[LAKOTA169]

I was about 7 and my dad would take me and shoot his S&W K-22. When I was 10, he bought me a Marlin 39 (1952). I still have both guns, along with the Mossberg 20ga bolt action I got when I was 12.

 

[Stevens]

.22 cal Browning pump.
Steve W

 

[4barrel]

NONE -HE NEVER OWNED ONE -He didnt need one. He could take of business on the spot. 94 & still kicking.

 

[Biginge]

Model 74 Winchester .22 auto. Still have it today.......63 years later.