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What was your 1st gun?

texshootertexshooter Member Posts: 1,002 ✭✭✭✭
edited July 2002 in General Discussion
I was doing a little cleaning in my shop today, and got to thinking about all the nice guns that I have owned in my life. There in the middle of this group sits my 1st gun. A little Savage 410-22 over and under, the model with the button on the side. Got it for my 12th birthday in 1965. ( now y'all know I am getting old ). My parents later told me they paid $35.00 for it, and yes. it was used. Blueing is pretty thin, and stock finish aint very pretty either, but it is never leaving my hands. Too many memories of after school squirrel hunts.
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  • texshootertexshooter Member Posts: 1,002 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I was doing a little cleaning in my shop today, and got to thinking about all the nice guns that I have owned in my life. There in the middle of this group sits my 1st gun. A little Savage 410-22 over and under, the model with the button on the side. Got it for my 12th birthday in 1965. ( now y'all know I am getting old ). My parents later told me they paid $35.00 for it, and yes. it was used. Blueing is pretty thin, and stock finish aint very pretty either, but it is never leaving my hands. Too many memories of after school squirrel hunts.
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  • VarmintmistVarmintmist Member Posts: 1,074 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Win mod 67, father bought it approx ww2, he ran a trap line for extra money for the family, its still here

    Those people who see nothing but grey areas, no black and white, are lost in the fog.
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  • martzkj@msn.commartzkj@msn.com Member Posts: 582 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    A Baker 20 gauge double my grand father gave me.
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  • 96harley96harley Member Posts: 3,992 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    At the tender age of 7 my mom got me a Daisy from Western Auto. At the sweet age of 15, Dad got me a bold action 22 caliber Sears rifle.
    I went on lots of safaris with those guns.
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  • rscoleman88rscoleman88 Member Posts: 4,250
    edited November -1
    Savage 410 under a 22 button on side.

    Respect those who protect us now just as you would those who died for us in the past.
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  • 101AIRBORNE101AIRBORNE Member Posts: 1,252 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Exactly the same as 96Harley. Daisy and Sears/Marlin bolt
    .22. Still have them after 45 years. 101
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  • moenkopimoenkopi Member Posts: 49 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    winchester model 1906 .22 pump rifle. it was well used then and still shoots today. gave it to my son (his first gun) 10 years ago.
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  • RickstirRickstir Member Posts: 574 ✭
    edited November -1
    Mossberg 16 ga. bolt action shotgun. I got pretty good at working that bolt!

    Like in the NFL, defense is the key.
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  • 4GodandCountry4GodandCountry Member Posts: 3,968
    edited November -1
    First real gun was a single shot lever action 22 long rifle, cant remember the brand name but wish I still had it. It was a good beginners rifle and very accurate. I traded it for a ruger 10-22 when I was around ten or eleven. First gun was a daisy red rider bb gun just like the one in the movie A Chrismas Story.

    When Clinton left office they gave him a 21 gun salute. Its a damn shame they all missed....
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  • azzeaterazzeater Member Posts: 187 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    First gun was a 20 guage New England Firearms. It was a piece of junk so i traded when i was 18 or 19.

    hey all!
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  • anderskandersk Member Posts: 3,627 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    My first gun was a Daisy BB Gun and the next was a Whippet 20 Ga. single shot. Man do I ever wish I had that shotgun back.

    Ken
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  • IconoclastIconoclast Member Posts: 10,515 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Unmarked generic brand version of a Mossberg .22 bolt action. Still have it; will have it when I die, unless I have a grandchild some day who really deserves it at age 11 +/-. Still shoots better than I do. I had it totally refinished several years back as the bluing and stock finish were in terrible shape from years of use. I'm sure the work cost at least ten times what my Dad paid for it, but the memories are well worth it.
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  • bama55bama55 Member Posts: 6,389 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Daisy BB gun, but spent more time shooting my fathers' Win. 74 .22 short. First real gun, at age 10, was a Stevens 94C 12 ga./3 in. magnum. My brother bought it for me new, and of course only bought
    3 inch #1 buckshot with it. My grandfather lived near so we went to his house to try it out. I will never forget that first round. I ended up on the ground, but held on to the gun!!!!! I think my brother bought it for me just to see me shoot that first round. Took my first buck with it Thanksgiving Day that year, 1965. Still have it, and will until I leave this world.

    Don't send flowers when I die. Send money now, I can buy more ammo.

    Edited by - bama55 on 07/09/2002 19:34:39
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  • WyomingSwedeWyomingSwede Member Posts: 402 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My first gun was a brazilian made 12 gauge single barrel. My old man took me out, put a 3" magnum goose load in it, and told me to touch it off at a milk jug filled with water. I dont know what hurt worse...my shoulder or the jug. There was nothing left of the jug.

    Then he did something that I wont forget to my dying day. He looked at me and said " You see that jug...that could just as easy be your brother or sister or mother. Guns are not playthings" I have never forgot that moment. In fact I repeated it with all my kids. Seems to make an impression thats hard to forget. My kids are safe gun handlers though. Swede

    WyomingSwede
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  • Bushy ARBushy AR Member Posts: 564 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Not counting the M-16 that I was issued many years ago,my first purchase was a Ruger 10-22 in stainless.Been an addiction ever since.Can't help myself,I have an "addictive personality".By the way,is there such a thing as "Gun Owners Anonymous"?

    Little people talk about people,regular people talk about things,and big people talk about ideas.
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  • hobbisthobbist Member Posts: 176 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    First Ruger Mark II, and I still have it. This handgun never fail me.
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  • hdwrenchhdwrench Member Posts: 954 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    reminton 121 . dad broke the firing pin so i couldn't shoot my brother who was forever tormenting me .i was 8 then ,i'm 43 now .i shot that gun for the very first time this year .finally found a gunsmith (after 4 trys) who took it in and fixed it proper .he also replaced misc. parts and screws i had long ago lost while fixing it myself as a kid .it felt wonderful to shoot her at last .well worth the wait , thanks dad .wish you could of been there .

    wrench .
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  • YanquiYanqui Member Posts: 58 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Charter Arms AR-7. Picked it up at the PX in MCAS, Cherry Point, NC. I do not have it anymore. I gave it to my brother.

    I have been thinking about acquiring a couple for my kids to use. I like the Henry version. It comes with two magazines that both fit in the stock.

    Yanqui
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  • ATFATF Member Posts: 11,683 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Hey Texshooter,I bought one of those over & unders that you're talking about back in the late fortys .New they sold for about $26.00, paid a dollar down and a dollar a week until it was paid.This was my second gun the first was a single shot .22 Springfield .Wish I still had that Savage or was it Stevens ? It had the Tenite ( like plastic )stock I was about 12 years old at the time.

    ATF
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  • moparmopar Member Posts: 338 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    First gun I ever bought was a RUGER 10/22.Got it for about $80 or so back in 1980.
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  • simonbssimonbs Member Posts: 994 ✭
    edited November -1
    Western Auto "Revelation" (Mossberg??) pump-action .410 given to me by my Grandfather at age 10. Still have it.
    I'm not afraid of the dark...the dark is afraid of me!
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  • tin22tin22 Member Posts: 731 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My first gun that I shot was baby eagle. I didn't like it at first, because it was my first time shooting, but once you start doing it all the time at the shooting range it's fun. My favorite gun is my Remington 22 rifle, which I put a scope on it and shot it long range. I loved it.
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  • gars320gars320 Member Posts: 471 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My first gun I had to buy for myself, Remington 22-250. Bought it from a large chain store in Waterton in 1973. Took dozens of woodchuck with it in upstate NY on neighbors farms. It is still in my Gun Safe in 98% condition. A good rifle only needs to be taken good care of and it will last forever.

    Nil Illegitimus Carborundum
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  • offerorofferor Member Posts: 8,625 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Outside of toys, the first gun I ever shot was a BB lever-action carbine, probably a Daisy, maybe a Red Ryder. I promptly shot two of grandpa's glass rain gauges off the fence with it on the farm where mom's folks lived, and got a harsh talking-to. It helped that I had no idea what a rain gauge was at the time. Later on, it was .22s (a Marlin Glenfield and some sort of anonymous snub-nose) plinking cans at the dump.

    - Life NRA Member
    "If cowardly & dishonorable men shoot unarmed men with army guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary...and not by general deprivation of constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
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  • KonetKonet Member Posts: 72 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    MY first Gun was a .22 marlin bolt auction.
    Just like 101airborne and 96 Harley and still works great.
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  • Rob GreeneRob Greene Member Posts: 102 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Like most everyone else, I started with the Daisy BB gun and moved up to a Marlin bolt action .22. What a great firing .22 that was. Many a woodchuck met his demise with that little beauty.

    **It is your right to posess a firearm. In case of questions, please refer to ammendment 2, United States Constitution.**
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  • HAIRYHAIRY Member Posts: 23,606
    edited November -1
    At age 14, bought a 9mm Luger for $15.00 from a "friend" whose brother owned it. The brother was killed holding up a VFW meeting on a Saturday nite (he was blown away in the parking lot by the vets). He also threw in a Colt cap & ball that they were trying to make into a cartridge pistol!!! Parents never knew I had them.

    It's not what you know that gets you in trouble, it's what you know that just ain't so!
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  • kaliforniankalifornian Member Posts: 475 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Crossman pump .177 pellet gun (air) followed by HK 45 USP (much more fun


    So many guns, so little money . . .
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  • armyboyarmyboy Member Posts: 11 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    A.22lr SAVAGE Mark II was my first bought it with my own money.save my pennies for it.parents dont like the idea of firearms.but who cares i bought it anyway. still have it now. thay still dont like the idea.
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  • AlerionAlerion Member Posts: 61 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I had a Daisy Model 25 (the long-stroke pump model) back when I was 10.

    When I was 11, I went to boy scout camp and shot a .22 for the first time. (And my dad, the assistant scoutmaster, shot one for the first time since he was a kid!) My birthday was a couple of weeks after I got home from camp and, since I'd spent most of my free time at camp on the rifle range, it made choosing a birthday present for me pretty easy. I got a Marlin 100 G, the same gun used on the range. (If a scout wanted to bring his own gun from home it had to be a single shot bolt action.) With the four years I was a camper, the nine years I was camp staff, and the sixteen years we had our own range in a sand pit on our farm, I couldn't guess how many rounds I put through that gun. It's still in my safe and in surprisingly good condition. It's also survived my three sons and now I've got a grandson who's got his eye on it. BTW, I think it was a $20-25 gun brand new. (But by comparison, my father bought a brand new Ford Fairlane for $1300 that same year!)

    Tom

    So, just how does rendering me defenseless protect you from violent criminals?
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  • doomsknight62doomsknight62 Member Posts: 239 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My first gun was a Remington 870 Express Magnum. Not exactly a good beginner's weapon, but still fun to shoot and it scares the heck out of just about everybody- including burglars.
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  • snarlgardsnarlgard Member Posts: 1,310 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    m1 carbine was my first buy. but the first i used was a winchester 30-30 that belonged to my dad. my second gun was a high standard 22 cal.
    pistol ..... lots of fun in that gun ....hope whoever stole it choaks
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  • E.WilliamsE.Williams Member Posts: 1,101 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My first gun I could call my own was a Savage Springfield 67 12 gauge pump given to me on my 15th birthday by my parents you should have seen my face lightn up I thought it was another crappy bb gun my old man said youre not 14 anymore be careful with that thing and no shells in the house and I listened because I didnt want it taken away and to this day it is my main home defense gun and my only shotgun.I will have it till my sons 15th birthday.I remember the first Turkey I took with it like it was the last Turkey I took with it.Thanks mom and dad.

    Eric S. Williams

    Edited by - E.Williams on 07/20/2002 23:57:52

    Edited by - E.Williams on 07/20/2002 23:59:49
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  • sandman2234sandman2234 Member Posts: 894 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Bauer .25 auto. Needed a gun for protection when moving to the big city of Jax. Later sold it, and wished for 5 years that I hadn't. Finally tracked the person I sold it to down since they had moved to Chicago,Il. It was stashed under the seat of Her car, and still in the original box. Paid the same thing for it used as I did new, but glad to do it. :)

    Have Gun, will travel
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  • jastrjastr Member Posts: 463 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    An old single shot o/u 410... not sure of the make and model.

    lets all be responsible! shoot a criminal! Remember 0% of firearms pull there own trigger!
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  • idsman75idsman75 Member Posts: 13,398 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My first gun was a NEF 12 guage single-shot that I took on my first hunt at the ripe old age of 22. I had fired a few other firearms in the military but that was the first one I purchased. Now it's a fever.
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  • COONASSCOONASS Member Posts: 2,068 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    A westerern auto bolt action 410 with built in clip......

    coonass

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  • CustomrodzCustomrodz Member Posts: 4 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    My first gun was passed down to me from my father it was also his first gun which was a Topper jr. single shot 410 . Many memories are brought to life just looking at this little gun. Still have it to this day waiting for my daughter to come of age.
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  • NighthawkNighthawk Member Posts: 12,022 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I inherited two at the same time when I was about eight.My Father Died and I took possesion of a Win Model 37 .410 and a .22 semi auto rifle.I have them to this day both in Excellant condition.

    Rugster
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  • shiznut123shiznut123 Member Posts: 18 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    My first gun was a Remington Sportsman 58 12 gauge. =)
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