Whats the first gun your dad let you shoot?

First Gun

Check out my avatar..that's me at the age of about 4. Somewhere in west Texas early 1941. Little rifle Dad put togeather.
 
My Dad wasn't much of a hunter, only archery which he shared with me.

The first gun I ever shot was a .22 single shot bolt action at summer camp.
The second was my Dad's old Savage single shot 12 gauge Model 220 which I still have. I must have been 14 when he first started letting me use it for bird hunting. No hunter safety classes in those days and no real instruction other than what I read in the gun mags. Still we were smart enough to know how to be safe and my buddy who lost his Dad at an early age and I did just fine teaching ourselves.
I would not recommend that today but it worked out fine for us back then.
 
The first long gun Dad let me shoot was a Winchester 88 O/U 20ga. He and his Father bought it together when my Dad was in high school. It's the first long gun I let my daughter shoot (see attached photo).

The first hand gun Dad let me shoot was a Colt Woodsman Target .22LR. It was his Grandfather's and was the first hand gun he shot. Dad just gave it to me this year for my birthday. I've since cleaned it up and plan for it to be the first hand gun my daughter shoots.
 

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Winchester Model 61. Sometimes on Saturday morning Dad would load up my brother and me, pick up two boxes of .22 shorts at the hardware store, and we'd head for the hills.
 
moosedog said:
That would have been a Winchester semi auto in 22 short at the Michigan State Fair grounds when I was 9 or 10 back around 1962.
Can you imagine a shooting gallery with real guns in todays world?
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When I was growing up in Virginia in the 50's and 60's the county fair had the same thing. Dad belonged to the Lions Club and they put on the fair, so on Sunday after the carnival had packed up and left town he would go help clean up the fairgrounds. The shooting gallery would always toss out the plywood target backstop, and I'd find it and see how many bullets I could dig out with my pocket knife.
 
I've enjoyed reading everybody's posts. Unfortunately my dad never allowed me to fire a gun growing up. He used to hunt and had many guns. I "found" the gun cabinet key when I was only 2 yrs old, got in it and managed to lock it back. My finger prints were all over the barrels. It freaked him out cause the key was gone never to be found - he sold all his guns.

I pestered him to death to go hunting when I was 16 with a friend. He wouldn't let me. But the first gun I shot was my friend's 50 cal Hawken when I was 16. For my 18th birthday I bought my own Mossberg 500 and took a hunter ed course. Got my license and haven't looked back.

Dad bought me a Marlin 30-30 when I turned 21. A memory I'll always cherish was the only time he went with me to a local range and it was just me and him plinking with a .22. I'm 45 now and he's been gone now for 7 years. I wish we could have some more trips to the range.
 
My Fathers MD 14 duty weapon in the early 60's. Presented this gun to a family friend upon my Dads death. He was of great help to my mother as his health declined. I have days that I regret giving away this part of my family history. Given his service to my parents, it was the right thing to do.
 
:/ my mom taught me to shoot.

With an old Remington 410/22 single shot.

As I recall, I shot the 22 first.

When it got to what the male parental let me shoot, I don't recall shooting with him. He'd be there, we all would be shooting, but I stayed away from him and his business.

As we got older, my sister and I took this same gun for rabbits and squirrels.

I wish I still had it or could track down the paternal relatives my mom sent this gun after he died. My oldest would like to have it a lot.
 
It wasn't my father but my uncle, When I was a kid I used to spend weekends at their hunting cabin.We used to go down to the mountain side dump and shoot dump rats,,, first handgun ever fired a .32 H&R revolver.
We used to have a lot of fun shooting those dump rats!
Thus started my gun infactuation!:D
 
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.
 
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.
 
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
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
hd28cw said:
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.:)
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A WWII surplus M1 Carbine. Got to shoot a full 10 round mag, at ~ 6 years old. Still have it and love it.
Guy22
 
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.
 
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.
 
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!
 
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.
 
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