Not the first one I owned but the first one I bought with my own money was an 1858 Remington clone when I was 12. I got my mom to take me to the gun shop in the next town to get a new .22 SA to replace the one I wore out and saw it in the display case and fell in love with it. IIRC I got it, a pound of powder, a bullet mold and a tin of caps for the grand total of 60 bucks OTD. That was in 1969. Still have it.