Whats the first gun your dad let you shoot?

[anglaispierre]

My dad died when I was quite young, but shooting was not a big thing in the UK, so I don't think he would ever have introduced me to it. However, shortly after he died my family visited an uncle on his farm. He had a rifle which he forgot to hand in after the war. He also had a box full of empty cartridge cases. My brothers and I played on the lawn, loading the empties and "shooting" each other. One of the empties looked a bit different. We showed it to my uncle. It was a live round. Ouch!!!!

We never played with that gun again. Don't know what the rifle was.

No-one plays with my guns.

 

[Bell Charter Oak Holsters]

A bolt action Mossberg military trainer in .22, can't remember the model number, but I remember it sure was heavy for an 8 year old skinny kid.

Cheers;
Lefty

 

[woodsltc]

Browning Auto in .22 Short ......with the wheel sight.

Don

 

[WC145]

Would've been back in '68 and it was a Ruger 10/22. It's still in my safe.

 

[Class III]

J.C. Higgins Model 20 12 gauge pump shotgun. I was around 7 or 8 years old at the time (1968/69). We were at a friends cabin in Mississippi. The cabin had a deck that went partially out over the lake and mounted on the deck was a clay pigeon thrower. All the kids kept bugging the men to let us shoot one of the SG's. Dad propped the SG up on the hand rail on the side of the deck and let me shoot a coke can on the ground. I brought that mangled can and empty hull home as trophies. The Model 20 is in the safe, but the "Trophies" are long gone. That model 20 smacked down a few dove on opening day this year.

Class III

 

[cowart]

Early 1950s, age 5 or 6. Shooting my grandfather's Remington 22 autoloader. Not sure what model it was - I had always assumed it was a 552, but I see now that the 552 didn't come out until 1957, so it must have been an earlier model. It was likely pre-WWII like his other guns. My grandfather only used it for killing hogs, as far as I know.

 

[jackcachenc]

A .38 special M&P. My fathers police issue pistol.

 

[johnsonl]

Remington No.4 rolling Block .22. I restocked it. It is still quite accurate, despite having been thrown in the fire once, a long time ago, because it had been leaning up against the cord wood next to the hearth at Grandma's. None of my five uncles ever owned up to leaving it there. It spent years hanging on two nails over the back door, ready for henhouse/hog pen defense.

 

[nogoodnamesleft]

Ruger M-14 Ranch Rifle.

 

[anglaispierre]

I shot at the moon. Must have missed as the moon is still there.

I went hunting today and came back empty handed as usual. Think I'll take up shooting the moon. Might have more success.

 

[Viss]

First rifle I shot was a Marlin levermatic 22lr, I was probably 8 years old at the time.
My dad bought me a Mossberg bolt action .410 for my 10th birthday, I still have both of these as well as his Ruger Mark 1.

 

[Sprefix]

My first experience was a Colt Peacemaker 7 1/2" bbl in .22 l.r. He still has the gun and it looks almost new. The .22 mag cylinder came with it also.

 

[David LaPell]

None, my father hate's guns. However my grandfather let me shoot his CVA .45 Kentucky Rifle when I was 11.

 

[runwiththeherd]

Belgium Browning .22. We went together to pick it out in 1964. I lost my Dad in 2007 but I still have that little rifle. It is the only gun that really means something to me and I still shoot it.

 

[Smith357]

First gun was a Daisy Red Ryder

First firearm, this one;

1903 Winchester

 

[woodsltc]

I went hunting today and came back empty handed as usual. Think I'll take up shooting the moon. Might have more success.

Just curious ... what "beasties" were you hunting?? What animals can you hunt in France?

Don

 

[41RF]

First gun I fired was a Hartford Arms & Equipment .22 auto, pistol; forerunner of Hi-Standard. Standard velocity ONLY for that baby!

 

[sgt.207]

Remington model 521T when i was five. M-1 carbine and S&W 36 at six.

 

[Straightshooter2]

Springfield Arms/Savage/Stevens/Page-Lewis* Model 50 Springfield Jr. .22LR single shot hand cock rifle. But it was my grandfather that let me shoot it, not my father. I was probably 6 at the time and now, 56 years later, I still have that rifle.

Page-Lewis came out with the gun in 1928 about the time they were bought out by Stevens who was being bought out by Savage. Or was it the other way around? Anyway, the gun was labeled as being made by Springfield Arms Co., Chicopee, MA, a company that never existed. In 1933 this rifle sold for $5.87 in the Sears catalog.

CW

 

[raven818]

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.

.22 over, .410 under. I got to shoot the " over ". Never the Under.