Whats the first gun your dad let you shoot?

[ogilvyspecial]

First firearm, this one;

1903 Winchester

Pretty close for me.

The first was a Winchester Model 63, which I took my first
squirrel with a couple of months before my sixth birthday.

 

[KentB]

I was 10 when my dad let me shoot his Cold Woodsman Match Target 22.
I still have it today.

 

[Cyrano]

In 1946 my father gave me a Marlin Model 81DL, tube magazine, bolt action, with adjustable peep sight. It came out right after the war and has a lot rougher stock than the later 81DLs. He taught me to shoot with it. I still have it; the headspace is a little long due to many bricks of hi velocity ammo.

My first shots, actually, were about three years previously when I was at summer camp and we had several sessions with 22s at 50 feet.

 

[G-Mac]

My dad was a WWII vet. RAF. Came to America (New York City) in the 50's. Not exactly sure why, but we never had guns in the house until I was 18 and old enough to buy my own. The first gun I let him shoot was a Ruger Mini-14.

 

[silentflyer]

A Winchester Model 41 .410 sigle shot shotgun, folllowed by a Wichester Model 67 .22 the same day. Still have both in my gunsafe NOT for sale at any price.

 

[oldnavynukespook]

My dad worked for the War Dept. in R&D during WWII. Dad bought a Colt Police Positive .22 target pistol from a friend, Carl Nix (very well-known shooter and gunsmith at the time) who had a range and cabin in Falls Church, VA and they would go shooting on the week-ends. They let me squeeze off my first shot at the ripe old age of 3! (Supposedly hit what I was aiming at, too). Still have that sweet little pistol...a prized possession!

 

[Mike6735]

My grandfather's Colt Police Positive in .32 S&W Long, 4-inch barrel; he bought it new in 1915. My dad was not a gun person, but my grandfather certainly was! Fired this, his bedside revolver, in 1953 for the first time and inherited the gun in 1970; one of my most prized possessions. Think of him every time I hold this tangible connection between the two of us.
It is in semi-retirement now but still as accurate as ever. The durability of Smith & Wessons/Colts never ceases to amaze me!

 

[all357mag]

I was 7yrs old, 6" barrel Colt Python. He stood behind me, helping me hold it. I still have the pictures and the gun.

 

[moe l.]

A Remington 22; not even sure where it is these days...but my Dad had a Luger, never let me shoot it, I have no idea where he got it or where it is today.....all this happened well over 50 years ago.

 

[OLDSTER]

old 16 gauge Model 12. In 1957. I still remember it kicking the hell out of me.

 

[Tenn2]

Stevens model 22-410 and H&R 622. They belonged to my Grandfather who raised me. I still have both and my dads Sears 22.

 

[bgrafsr]

A P-38, CYQ manufacture, that my dad took off a dead German during the Battle of the Bulge. He gave the gun to me, and being the unwashed, ignorant soul that I was (am?), I had the gun re-finished in a high polished blue, and several years later sold it. I did ask my dad if he would be upset if I sold the gun and he said it wouldn't bother him at all. Well, to this day I regret doing what I did, especially since my father has passed on. I did buy another one years later to replace it, but it wasn't the same and I sold it last year.

 

[Kavinsky]

Smith and wesson model 39 steel frame when I was 13, thought the thing recoiled like a handcannon lol!

 

[99savage308]

At the very young age of 5. Winchester mod 06 pump 22. First handgun was a Walther p-38 at the young age of 5.

added note: I have the winchester. Dad traded that Walther for a car my Mom's brother had. It was an old Hot Rod 34 Ford. My Uncle and Dad had a time of it explaining the deal. My Dad sold the car to my other Uncle,Mom's sister's hubby. He, the other Uncle, raced it at the old dirt track. My Mom's sister had a fit. She was that way. No since of humor. He did win some races with it though.

 

[Vegetaman]

If I can recall... It was a black powder civil war style Dragoon model pistol.

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

P-38 .

 

[CW Spook]

Most likely it was the little .22 Marlin pump gun that my brother has, but it might have been my grandad's IJ .410 single-shot that I have. That was probably a couple of years before I got my own first rifle, the 1898 Krag that still rests in my gun rack.

 

[amazingflapjack]

Winchester 1890 22 short gallery pump; still have it.

 

[beemerrider]

My "first" at age 6 was a Winchester 'Gallery Special" in .22 short only. I think it held 22 shorts in it's tube that I loaded through a slot in the stock and compressed with a spring loaded tube inserted into the butt of the rifle. Open sights, but it shot quite accurately. "Killed" lots of tin cans with this rifle.

 

[mg357]

My dad who is technically my stepdad is not a gun guy and he does not own any guns so the first gun I got to shoot was my grandpa's 16 gauge and his 12 gauge shotguns. Unfortunately I only got to shoot it with dummy rounds but the experience was very memorable.