What was your first gun?

My first "fire"arm was a Ruger 10/22 that I still have. My first "gun" was a Crossman BB gun, similar to their current 2100 model. No gun will ever match the number of pigeons, starlings and sparrows I killed with that thing.
 
Like others, my first guns were BB and pellet rifles from Daisy and Crossman.

My first real firearm was a Marlin Model 70, magazine fed .22LR carbine. I think dad paid the local Coast-Coast store around $50 for it when I passed my hunter's safety class, around age 10 I think.

I still have the old gun in my safe and shoot it once in awhile. I don't think the thing is worth more than the $50 Dad paid for it back in 1980!

It looks pretty beat up, but still shoots fairly well.

This brings back memories of summer weekends spent crawling the hills and valleys with some buddies, shooting bricks of .22 LR. Remember shooting 1000 rounds, then riding my bike to the store for more! Never had to worry if there were any .22LR on the shelf, just had to worry if I had saved enough allowance money to buy some!
 
First firearm: Revelation 22lr (sold by Western Auto). I think the model was 110 or something close to it. It was a tube fed bolt action in a wood stock. I could shoot ink bottles out of the air with it when I was a teenager. Would love to find another like it or maybe a Remington in the same platform. Back in those days I could make a box of 50 shells last a cople of weeks when hunting rabbits daily. That was before I discovered the semiauto 22.
 
My first firearm is a 12ga 870 express I bought after I turned 18 for bird hunting. I am planning my first handgun purchase later this month.
 
My first firearm was actually a total of 15 firearms that my grandfather left me. Including an M1 Garand, Type 99 Arisaka, Winchester Model 64, and Remington 870 Wingmaster. It's quite a variety and every one is older than I am.
 
I'm ashamed to say that on my 18th birthday I walked into the LGS and plunked down $109 plus tax for a Universal M1 Carbine...

Had it for years, it never failed to go BANG, and traded it off for something I no longer even remember.


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15 firearms!!?? Was your grandfather in WW2?
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Vietnam and Korea. Five of them are .22s and there are a few shotguns around 100 years old. Also a Voere Titan II in 30-06. Quite a few of them have been passed down, one .22 was my dad's and the Winchester was my great grandfather's hunting rifle.
 
When I was 13 I bought a second hand bolt action 20 guage, Mossberg I think.
When I was 14 I bought a second hand 30-30 lever, Western Auto of all names, not sure who the actual manufacturer was.
 
I grew up in a home where my dad would buy guns and let me use them but would never buy a gun and give it to me, I had to earn the money myself. When I was about 12 I had mowed lawns all summer and did odd jobs until I had enough money for the gun I wanted. Once I had the money my dad bought the gun for me, a Ruger GP100 6" Stainless and 15 years later I've still got it!
 
First was a bb gun, then an air rifle.

First rimfire rifle was a Henry .22 lever action, H001 model. Got it around the age of 10. Still have it more than a decade later. Still gets used regularly shooting chipmunks and squirrels in the yard.

First rifle I bought myself was a Savage 93r17. After that I bought a Marlin 917v and it was so much more accurate than the Savage that traded the Savage for credit towards a Taurus Tracker .17 HMR.
 
My first gun was an H&R .410 single shot shotgun with the breakdown lever on the right hand side of the receiver. I let my uncle have it when he was having troubles with dogs chasing horses at his stables. My first handgun is a 6" Colt Python that I still have.
 
Marlin Model 795, just like 2 or 3 years ago. Still have to shoot the thing like crazy when I get to go to the range, it never gets old!
 
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