what was your FIRST handgun?

Mine was a Stoeger Luger .22 with a 4" barrel, late 60's or early 70's.
A birthday present when I was about 12.
Jammed a lot but I still had a hoot taking potshots at turtleheads in the water tanks.

I don't recall what became of it but a couple of years ago I saw a 6" in the box, as familiar as my belly button in the gunstore cabinet. Not at all expensive, so I had to buy it just for old time sake.

Shoots very good, hates Remington but loves Federal.
 
Iver Johnson .25ACP. Given to my by a friend when I was 13. I gave it back to him less than a year later when I left that part of my life.

First gun I bought with my own money was at age 16: A High Standard Citation which I kept until I was just shy of 40 years of age at which time it was taken in a burglary.

Finally found a replacement for it about a month ago.

Will
 
This is awesome this thread is still going, I love hearing all the stories from a long time ago til just recently.
 
first pistol i ever shot and owned was my H&K P2000 in 40 S&W. since then ive shot various different pistols and calibers but i still shoot the 40 best :eek:
 
Yep, I sure do.

Actually, I still have every gun I've ever bought (CheapShooter's rules).

Seriously though, although some day, some guns may get sold or given away, the 22A and the 92FS will both be with me till the end (will be part of the guns to be disbursed in my will, or maybe just before). The 22a is my perennial range work horse and the 92FS is hands down my favorite and I'm sure it always will be.

I suppose the 22A may wear out someday but I would certainly by a replacement in an instant.
 
Just purchased my first handgun this past week. It's a Ruger P95. Love the way it feels in my hand. Can't wait to get it to the range!
 
My first was a Ruger GP100 with a 6" barrel in stainless steel. I like the looks of stainless, just not cleaning it.
 
Interarms 9mm. too old to be able to make out the model. If anyone can identify it for me I would appreciate it..
 

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The same interarms that makes safari grade rifles? I'm getting a 375h&h from made bro my by inter arms.

Edit: I did some Googling and yours looks like a star-interarms model bm. Not 100% though. Google that and you'll find some that look like yours.
 
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I am having trouble remembering my FIRST handgun.
During my Junior High years (middle school to many of you) I build three different black powder pistol kits, and I got my first real modern pistol.

I built:
* Colt 1851 brass frame .36 caliber black powder revolver kit
* .44 caliber Kentucky pistol black powder kit
* .45 caliber derringer black powder kit

Then for Christmas one year I got a High Standard "Plinker" .22 semi-auto pistol.

The High Standard is a great story. If you don't want "sappy" stop reading.

My dad wanted to get me a .22 pistol for Christmas so my folks went to a gun shop. The shop had two slightly-used High Standard "Plinker" models. Both were in great shape.
My dad looked them over and decided they would get me one. While looking them over he commented how he'd love to have the other for himself.

When Christmas morning came, we were opening our presents. My dad and I "just happened" to be opening two similarly-sized presents. Yup -- they were the two High Standards. My mom had gone back another day to purchase the other one for my dad.

This would have been around 1978 or so. Since then, my dad and I have fired thousands of rounds through those two "plinker" pistols and we both still have them. It's a great shooter! Very accurate and fun to shoot.

I also still have the three black powder guns, too. But they are wall-hangers. Black powder is such a complete mess to shoot and clean up that it's just sucks the fun out of shooting them.
 
Taurus .380. Had it to the range 1 time...couldn't get it to feed anything up the ramp...neat gun...just didn't work right.


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