What caliber was your first handgun??

When I was 19 and had begun doing union ironwork I was making more than $100 per week for the first time in my life. I was at the gun shop looking at a Govt model 45 for $135.00 NIB or a S&W 357 magnum model 19 for $120.00 also NIB. I went for the model 19.
 
H&R 922

9 shot revolver 22 caliber because it was all I could afford for HD for wife in San Diego. Low ranking sailors didn't make much money back in 69. Upgraded to a 38 super later and now I have a whole bucket full of handguns including the 922. Wished I still had the 38 super but that's the way it goes.

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.30-40 Krag .... a carbine, Winchester model 1895 ....when I was 10.
I killed my first white tail deer the previous fall, when I was 9, with that rifle ....and he gave me the gun for my 10th birthday that winter.

My first handgun was a S&W model 10, .38 spl again passed down in the family when I was about 14.

I think the first gun I bought new - was a Browning BPS 12ga shotgun in the 70's.

( and I still have all three guns )....
 
The first handgun I ever shot was my father's Ruger Mk II .22. After that range trip, my Grandfather gave me a Bersa Thunder .380, which you could say was my first handgun. However, the first handgun I bought for myself was a Springfield G.I. 1911 in .45 ACP. It was love at first trigger pull.
 
.357 magnum. But that was only the first one I bought for myself. I grew up around guns, had shot many calibers and types long before I acquired my own.
 
.22 LR,Ruger Single-Six of course. 6.5 barrel,blued,later sent off to Mahovsky's in Pennsylvania to have their Metalife finish applied. Now looks like matte stainless,and comes with Chuck Taylor's approval too [the finish,not necessarily the gun].
 
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