My all-time favorites in the handgun, rifle, and shotgun to date are:
My sister-in-law's a SW .22 SS 'Kit Gun' j-frame w/ a 4" bbl, got me back to shooting again. Now back at her fathers, an ex-FFL. I had borrowed it while operating a carbon dioxide liquefaction plant in the middle of nowhere. Shot thousands of rounds through it (SA and DA). In daylight and dark until cows were put out to pasture there, and my shooting was limited to daylight hours (a nice sized little mesa was by back stop). My next intended purchase will be a .22lr wheel gun.
An old Winchester M94 30-30 that survived a fall on to the highway at 45mph. A gun from my youth, first shot a 9yrs old (shouldered on my bicep, left a cool bruise
). Last shot when 17, dad traded it and an Arminus .38sp (it once proved that the Master Lock & rifle commercial is a joke 
) for bows for my younger siblings. Never killed anything but a jack rabbit (what's the statute of limitations on game laws ), but it was fun.
A home-made pistol-gripped sawed off single shot 12ga (complete w/ added brass tacks). H&R. A guy had 'hawked' it to a man for gas money to Boise City, OK of all places. Never came back for it. He was nice enough to lend it out, but wouldn't sell it. Couldn't hit a damn thing with it
. But it was FUN for a high school kid. I'd shoot it one handed and then let some else try (not many wanted to). The ones that did always bloodied their knuckles; I didn't (a stout kid). Still want one (maybe I ought to cut down my NEF ).
Until I broke it, my current favorite (most shot/most fun) was a Daisy Powerline 880 air rifle that was bought at a garage sale. A fun sparrow shooter. Cheap to feed. No recoil. Also fun to shoot 'strike-anywhere' matches at cinder block fences at night.
[This message has been edited by Prichard (edited October 05, 1999).]
My sister-in-law's a SW .22 SS 'Kit Gun' j-frame w/ a 4" bbl, got me back to shooting again. Now back at her fathers, an ex-FFL. I had borrowed it while operating a carbon dioxide liquefaction plant in the middle of nowhere. Shot thousands of rounds through it (SA and DA). In daylight and dark until cows were put out to pasture there, and my shooting was limited to daylight hours (a nice sized little mesa was by back stop). My next intended purchase will be a .22lr wheel gun.
An old Winchester M94 30-30 that survived a fall on to the highway at 45mph. A gun from my youth, first shot a 9yrs old (shouldered on my bicep, left a cool bruise
). Last shot when 17, dad traded it and an Arminus .38sp (it once proved that the Master Lock & rifle commercial is a joke ) for bows for my younger siblings. Never killed anything but a jack rabbit (what's the statute of limitations on game laws ), but it was fun.A home-made pistol-gripped sawed off single shot 12ga (complete w/ added brass tacks). H&R. A guy had 'hawked' it to a man for gas money to Boise City, OK of all places. Never came back for it. He was nice enough to lend it out, but wouldn't sell it. Couldn't hit a damn thing with it
. But it was FUN for a high school kid. I'd shoot it one handed and then let some else try (not many wanted to). The ones that did always bloodied their knuckles; I didn't (a stout kid). Still want one (maybe I ought to cut down my NEF ).Until I broke it, my current favorite (most shot/most fun) was a Daisy Powerline 880 air rifle that was bought at a garage sale. A fun sparrow shooter. Cheap to feed. No recoil. Also fun to shoot 'strike-anywhere' matches at cinder block fences at night.
[This message has been edited by Prichard (edited October 05, 1999).]