Whats the first gun your dad let you shoot?

[gm272gs]

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!

 

[vigil617]

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.

 

[Smithsrevenge]

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 :/

 

[finesse_r]

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.

 

[packeagle]

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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[feralmerril]

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.

 

[JPriest]

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.

 

[mafuta54]

Winchester 1907 .22 pump.

 

[walnutred]

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.

 

[cmort666]

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.

 

[hanken]

The first gun my dad let me shoot was his High Standard double nine .22
We would shoot walnuts off the tree in the front yard and those were the days. I have the gun now that he is gone. It is one of five hand guns that he left me and one of those was a S&W. All of my other hand guns are Smith& Wessons.

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[bovw]

After my Crossman, first real shot was Dads Marlin 39. It was roughly 35 years ago, and he still won't let me have it. I do have the second one though, it was his Marlin 336RC, which I do have now.

 

[625smith]

JC Higgins 9 shot .22 snubby. I think I was five. I remember I held the revolver and Dad's hands were over mine. He cocked it and said "Squeeze the trigger".

 

[LTC]

Our house was a gun free zone when I was a kid in the 50's. I had all manner of cap guns, but nothing that would be considered a real firearm.

I would think my first exposure to a real firearm was about 1958 at Boy Scout Camp. Some sort of bolt action singe shot .22 rifles.

LTC

 

[Taurus627]

Dad was not a gun guy, so I didn't shoot my first until he passed away and I was able to buy a Ruger 10/22 myself. Been hooked ever since.

 

[Bello]

.410 mossberg pump shotgun was about 9-10

 

[S&WIowegan]

My first was my Daisy Red Ryder lever action BB gun which I used mercilessly on sparrows that infested the barnyard. Never really knew if the BB would fly true so I developed a very fast lever.

Next was Dad's Winchester Model 62 which Mom gave him in 1939. That rifle eliminated the pigeons infesting our barns. I still have the rifle which Dad gave me before he passed.

Next was a bolt action box-fed .410 shotgun from Sears or Wards....that gun was stolen by a former BIL while I was in the Army.

 

[Model 19 6"]

That would be his Mod 63 Winchester. I now have it in the safe.

 

[Bkreutz]

The first one my Dad let me shoot was a .22 bolt action that you had to stick every round into the chamber. Don't recall what brand it was. After closing the bolt you had to pull back the knob on the back to cock the rifle. I was around 8 when this happened. Now for the first one I shot (if he knew I probably wouldn't have gotten the .22) was about 6 months before I got the .22. I was at my cousins house (on the farm) and everyone went to town except the kids. He knew where his Dad's shotgun and shells were. (are you getting the picture). This was a double barreled one that you had to cock the hammers on the side. I, being the brave one, (actually the dumbest) shot it first. I put 2 shells into it, cocked both hammers, and pulled the front trigger. Little did I know that the gun would fire both barrels at the same time. After I picked myself out of the dirt, we quickly cleaned the gun and put it back. I figured we were pretty smart. Still remember that like it was yesterday.

 

[rwsmith]

Nada

Zilch, none..... My dad had a shotgun and a pistol but I never fired either. He just wasn't a gun person and was too busy working to raise 5 kids. I got into it on my own in my early 20's. I did have a BB gun though.