Whats the first gun your dad let you shoot?

[cussedemgun]

Oh Yah, my first rifle -

On or about 8 years old, a neighbor gave me (with my parents permission) a generic 22 single shot rifle so I could help keep the varmints from our hen house. I don't remember if it was 'monkey ward', 'sears & sawbuck', or 'western auto' but it served me well for a number of years 'till I got a better one.

Some where in my teen years, a young family member needed a varmint gun as I had earlier & the 22 went on to serve a younger man as it had done for me.

So goes it with my 22 collecting. I have had a box car full of almost all makes & sizes but there has always been a young'en to come along with a need greater than mine.

I have several 22 pistols, both auto & revolver. They are fun for plinking but don't seem to hold my interest like they did a few years ago. I used to have a S&W 63 4" till my daughter saw it a few years back. Did I mention that 22's are for the young'uns & training?

 

[EXECUTIONER-408]

lever action .22 rifle still remember as if it were yesterday

 

[Coaltminer]

Winchester Model 69, 22, the only gun he owned. I still have it, he and removed the bluing and had it professionally reblued, had it drilled and tapped and it now wears a Weaver 4x scope. My mom helped me refinish the stock with 5 coats of high luster varnish and it's a beautiful little gun, but, in retrospect, I wish I hadn't put the scope on it. It's an accurate gun, 1/2" groups at 50 yds. with good ammo, it's treasured. My dad left the farm to join the Navy in WW2, leaving it in a closet, when he came back the thing was a mess, hence the reblue.

 

[jimmyj]

Hi:
Double Barrel 12 gauge shotgun, long barrel with exposed hammers.
(I was six years old)

 

[laskt9]

A bb gun. Even to this day. He's one of those "antis"

 

[carpriver]

That would have been the 22 rifle that my grand father had it was a single shot bolt action with a thumb trigger. unknown brand name and indeterminate age. I was about 7 years old so it was 1954. Dad use to let me carry it when he took us rabbit hunting. It was a short rifle that fit me just right back then.

 

[jimmyj]

That would have been the 22 rifle that my grand father had it was a single shot bolt action with a thumb trigger. unknown brand name and indeterminate age. I was about 7 years old so it was 1954. Dad use to let me carry it when he took us rabbit hunting. It was a short rifle that fit me just right back then.

The manufacture was Winchester

 

[MT99]

My first was a Marlin lever action .410. Still my favorite grouse gun.

My kids have shot .22 rifles in the past. We were at the gun club 2 weeks ago for youth league. Afterwards I did a little comparison between a Pre-14 and a Python. The kids (9 and 11 years old) were bugging me to try the revolvers. I had 4 rounds left so I gave them each 2. They promptly put all 4 in the black at 50 feet with the Smith.

 

[Mcwsky09]

I think it was his S&W 22A - then the SR22 - then the Taurus 738 - then the FMK 9mm. Starting about a year ago.

 

[okav8tor]

Single shot bolt action .22 and a .410 shotgun

 

[IndianaDave]

Savage 22/410 over/under. I think it was a Model 24 ? Good memories of a better time in the world.

 

[ack369]

My uncle Ted's Smith & Wesson Model 18-2. I was ten years old. Ted is gone now, but I have the gun - 33 years later.

 

[Mike 44]

First gun dad let me shoot was a Sears 22 magnum bolt action ,I still have the gun .

 

[Sprefix]

Colt SAA .22 with a 7 1/2" barrel........

 

[longhorn too]

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.

Model 67 Winchester single shot .22. My first gun when I was 11.

 

[hd28cw]

Good ol' dad!!!

 

[dcxplant]

An M16!!

My dad signed the papers to let me join at 17.

 

[Autococker07]

A 1957 Ruger Single Six Lightweight. Still got it in the safe just barely a turn line on her.... She will fire twice more, once for each of my son's, but thats the only new gun my father ever owned.... he loved it and could shoot it like it was a part of him. There is a backup just like it for us to shoot to death, but Dad's is my only "safe queen".

 

[Diamondtreo]

Stevens "Springfield" single shot bolt action .22 rifle sometime around 1956 or so. I taught both our girls to shoot with it & now am waiting for the day our granddaughters are old enough to learn to shoot it. John

 

[deanodog]

A Winchester model 68 single shot bolt action 22. I still own it at 75 years old.