Whats the first gun your dad let you shoot?

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?
 
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.
 
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.
 
carpriver said:
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.
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The manufacture was Winchester
 
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.
 
I think it was his S&W 22A - then the SR22 - then the Taurus 738 - then the FMK 9mm. Starting about a year ago.
 
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.
 
First gun dad let me shoot was a Sears 22 magnum bolt action ,I still have the gun .
 
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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Model 67 Winchester single shot .22. My first gun when I was 11.
 
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".
 
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
 
A Winchester model 68 single shot bolt action 22. I still own it at 75 years old.
 
My first was a Cooey Model 82 Training rifle. I still have it. It looks and feels like a full-sized Lee Enfield in .303, but is a single-shot .22LR. They made them for the Canadian Army and Air Force Cadets.

Great rifle for a kid. It's bolt-action, but you still have to cock the firing pin (like a Crickett) after you chamber a round.

Look at the advertisement. $9.95 for a new one, or $18.00 for two!
 
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I don't remember if it was the first, but I distinctly remember my dad finally letting my 10-year-old self (after considerable begging) shoot his single-shot 12-gauge Ithaca in the middle of a tobacco patch, where he suggested I draw a bead on the flower at the top of a nearby plant and squeeze the trigger. I was promptly knocked on my keister and dropped the shotgun too.

He made it up to me by giving me for Christmas a little .410 Sears & Roebuck bolt action that I still have, and that brought me back into a right relationship with shotguns.:)
 
Father passed before I was born sadly.

However my grandfather taught me how to shoot. At the ripe old age of 10 he handed me a large gun with a pump action. I shot it and flew across the yard. His buddies and he laughed hysterically. It was a 10guage :/
 
The first guns I ever shot were a .45 ACP Colt 1911 and a double barreled 12 gage shot gun. I was age 10 and those were the only two guns we owned. I did not yet have a bb gun.

The 1911 was one my father brought home with him from WWII and the shotgun had a hand carved stock on it that he made himself as a boy. My brother still has that 12 gage today. The 1911 got away from us.
 
12ga with rifled barrel and 3.5" deer slugs. Shot it from bench. Scope hit my safety glasses. He was sighing it in and I wouldn't leave him alone, because I wanted a turn.

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I probley was 5 or 6 years old and think for handguns it was probley some model of a high standard or colt auto 22. For a rifle it was no doubt his winchester model 61. I can remember once when I was about 5, dad comeing home with a bloody hand. I seem to think it was when a slide on a auto somehow sliced him.
 
A Remington Nylon 66 which I believe is still in my grandfather's old house where my uncle currently live. After that there were a couple of .22 revolvers, one top-break, I'm thinking it might have been a S&W, but could have been a Great Western, and one hand ejector, can't remember the manufacturer. Had a cool old western holster go carry it around with. Those were the days. When we'd go visit my grandfather in the country first thing I would do was run in the house, load up the guns (I used to save up the $2 for a box of 50 rounds), put on the belt and holster and take off for the fields and forest to see what I could shoot.
 
First gun I ever fired was a M102 howitzer. First rifle I ever fired was a Winchester 67 and I was probably 5 years old at the time. The rifle was bought new by my G-Grandfather the first year they came out and my daughter has custody of it now. So 5 generations have been shooting it.
 
My mother wouldn't allow any guns in the house.

I learned how to shoot in college and in the Army.

I did however know how to field strip an MP40 by the time I was in 8th grade, having gotten my first copy of "Smallarms of the World" between 7th and 8th grades.
 
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