Whats the first gun your dad let you shoot?

A Firearms International Corporation Single-shot 22lr

Became the Garcia Bronco after Garcia bought the company in 1970. Still have it.
 

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My dad had anything for me to shoot. First gun I let him him shoot was my High Point 995.
 
The first gun I let ...my Dad shoot...was a single barrel Stevens 20 ga. that we bought with $ from my paper route. I was the gun person in our family. Guess the gene skipped a generation.
 
I was about 5, maybe 6. Pop and my older brothers were dove hunting. He let me shoot the single-shot 410 that he was hunting with. Pretty sure everybody got a good ol' laugh at the "felt recoil" I experienced.
 
A S&W K22.................in the basement of our home in Cleveland. Dad traded it in for my first shotgun, a 20ga Lefever side by side (which I still have)
Wish I still had the K22.
Dave
 
I guess I was late to the party. Dad gave me a brand new Remington single shot bolt action .22 with a 4x Busnell scope for my 11th birthday. Since we only got to go "out" on weekends, well, really Saturdays since he was a preacher, Mom consented to a shooting range in the basement, where I spent hours shooting BB and CB loads. That gun could hit empty 30/30 shells at 25 yards. Wish it was in my safe and Dad was in his chair.
 
A Colt Woodman, when I was eight years old. He bought when he got out of the Army in 1945. I still have it,and still shoot it. My son will get it when I gone and hope it will be past on down the line.
 
Marlin 39A w/Weaver 4X on it. Dad bought this new in about 1955 or so for $50 with the scope. He still has it (he's 86) although it hasn't been fired for years. Looks like new, but I did put a dent in the stock for him. ;)
 
First rifle was Dad's Remington 514 .22 single shot, still have it. I was about 7 yrs old then. We shot Winn Dixie Check soft drink cans and some PBR cans off a pine tree stump.

A year later we shot his P-38 WW2 bring back pistol. Could not hit the broad side of a barn with it. Still being a semi-auto I thought it was so cool. Still have that one too.

I was hooked on guns and shooting, never to look back. When I was 17, he helped me buy a S&W 19-2, 6", nickel. I saw it in the case at Montgomery Wards and knew I had to have it. Still have that one too along with the receipt for $195.00 plus tax.
 
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.:)

The first real gun that my father allowed me to fire was a top-break .32 revolver. I was so little that I doubt I noticed what name of the manufacturer. Sadly it went away when one of my brother's decided to trade it off to get my father a better handgun. What's really sad is the 4" nickle plated 19-3 that I'd given my father (TT, TH, TS, WO, RR) also got traded. The fine handgun that replaced the two revolvers... Beretta 92F. My father hated it. So, he ended up with a COLT Detective Special.
 
My Dad let me shoot his 12 gauge pump shotgun when I was 10 years old and it knocked me on my butt. He laughed and said he would wait a couple of years before he let me shoot it again. I said to him that now that I know how much it kicks I would be ready for so he let me fire it again. I stayed upright on the second shot but I had enough for day 1 of my shooting career.
 
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