Tell us about your first gun? (poll added)

[Simcoe hunter]

I didn't even think of my Daisy.  It was prior to my 9422.  I shot many a water ousel, swallow and snake with that bad boy.

[HighlandLofts]

My first gun was an old Daisy type BB Gun, the next one was a Crossman 760 BB/Pellet Gun that you pump up to ten times. We use to go down to the railroad yard under the interstate highway and shoot pigeons that we sold to an old blackman for a quarter a piece. That was about 1968 back in Upstate New York.
I got my first REAL GUN about a year after the Crossman 760, I traded a few things for an old Stevens semi-auto 22 rilfe, I sold that gun when I got a new Mossberg 340 - 22 caliber rifle for christmas in 1970, I still have that old 22. It's at my sons place back in New York. I've killed thousands of gray squirels and hundreds of grouse with that 22.
I have been buying old 22s for awhile now and have about 25 of them. I bought two old Winchesters off of this forum, A Winchester 67A single shot Boys Model and a Winchester 62A pump. The most acurate 22 rifle I have was probably the cheapest one that I bought. I stoped by JC's Pawn Shop up in Mount Vernon earlier this year and bought a Western Auto model 110, a tube-fed bolt action 22 s-l-lr. I've never shot a 22 rifle as acurate as this one is.
 My first shot isan old Ithaca 37 pump 16 gauge that I used for rabbits & grouse. When I was old enough to hut deer I had it drilled & tapped for ascope to use for deer hunting. The area I lived in was shotgun - slugs only. I killed a pile of deer with that old shotgun and still have the shotgun/scope set up.
 My first centerfire rifle was a Remington 700 in 222rem. I bought a scope for it and shot hundreds & hundreds of woodchucks with that gun, I did shoot a few whitetail deer with it when I started going to rifle use deer units. I still have that rifle still.
 My first handgun wasa Ruger Single-Six 22LR-22mag, blued gun & blue 22lr cylinder with a stainless 22mag cylinder. I just sold that old gun last year and bought a new Ruger stainless Single-Six 22lr/22mag from Norpoint Shooting Range up here in Arlington.
 My first large caliber handgun was a Ruger Blackhawk I bought from my oldest brother, It wasa 357mag with the 9mm cylinder. I then bought his Ruger Blackhawk in 44mag a couple of years later. I gave the 44mag to my oldest son and the 357mag/9mm to my second son last year.
 Being brought up around guns and starting the hunting early in life it will always have a place in my life. My oldest son started waterfowl hunting about six years ago back in Upstate New York, I try to save a month of time to get back there from mid November to mid December so we can go Duck, Goose & deer Hunting together. My second son only goes out hunting a couple of times a month, on the other hand my oldest son gets out about every available day he can. I bought a Browning A% 12 gauge three inch chamber with a c-lect choke and sent back there to hunt with acouple of years ago, Sincev then I bought a new Winchester SX# 12 gauge with the Waterfowl Package and I picked up an old vintage Marlin "Original Goose Gun" twelve gauge with the thirty-six inch barrel to take back there to use occasionally out goose hunting. I have to by some bismuth or other suitable goose loads & patern the old shotgun.

I won't mind hooking up with someone local to get out duck & goose hunting in the Snohomish, Skagit county area and get out & do some Crow Hunting when the season opens up.

This is a great thread, A lot of fond memories for a lot of people who reads these post and go back to their own point in time when they got their first gun, and then their first bird, squirrel, rabbit, rat, rockchuck or other target.

[HighlandLofts]

My first gun was a Remington Model 12A pump action 22 long rifle. It was given to me by neighbor that homesteaded the street that I grew up on. He gave the gun to me when he was in his late nineties and I was 4 years old, this was 45 years old. He said the gun was built between 1890 and 1910 but he could not remember for sure when he bought it.

The only thing wrong was the pump stock bolts had been stripped out and were missing. I was still able to shoot it by using the metal slide to pump rounds into it. This gun shoots great.

This summer I had a gunsmith repair the pump stock and he really wanted me to sell it to him. He said the gun was valuable.

My question does anyone know what this gun might be worth. I am not interested in selling it. The sentimental value exceeds the monetary value to me.

Any thoughts on what it might be worth.

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On Gun Broker they are priced from $300 up to $700. I'm sure condition has a lot to play in the value of these old guns. And the valuse goes up & down as interest in these old guns come & go. An item is only worth what someone is willing to pay for the item. I've seen guns worth a couple of hundred bucks sell for close to a thousand dollars and I've seen high end guns that are worth ove a thousand dollars sell for considerablely less.

I had two guns I paid $289 apiece for and sold them for $550 apiece, and I bought a gun recently for $120 and could sell it right now for over $400. I generally don't resell guns that I buy unless I have not used them over the past ten years or so, or if I buy something better them what I have.

[DBHAWTHORNE]

Remington 870 20 gauge LW Magnum

[bearpaw]

no .30-06 on the poll?

That is .308 caliber....

[savage.270]

I got my first gun when i was 14. Savage Edge .270. Now its the Axis. But i had a lil cash in my pocket but needed more. My grandparents were kind enough to loan me the cash and put it in my grandmas name. My grandpa thought we went up to Walmart to buy a .22 but i explain to him how you cant hunt deer with a .22. Lol.

[Machias]

Winchester Mod 88, .308.  Left it with my Dad when I was stationed in the UK.  His house burned down and I lost several guns.  Shed a tear over that gun.   

[DOUBLELUNG]

Asked for a .22 every Christmas from 12 on, no joy in my anti-gun family.  Turned 18 in 1985, bought a 10/22 - my first gun.  After hunter safety fall 1986, I traded it for a Spiegel catalog 12 gauge bolt-action with a polychoke and 2-round magazine.  My one hunting relative, an uncle, took pity on this dirt-poor college student and gave me my grandfather's 1945 Winchester M94 .30/30 and Remington 541 bolt-action .22.  Along with a Jennings J22 POS pocket pistol, that was my arsenal for several years.  (I did call in and kill my first coyote with that J22, at about 6 feet - I was working in the woods and flushed a brood of turkeys, sat back against a tree and started to kee-kee to see if I could call the turkeys back to me.  He ran right in, stopped broadside looking away.)

[dewandgin]

My first gun was a Marlin 22 (don't remember the model) that got stolen the first year I had it out of my dads truck so he bought me a Ruger 10/22. Still have that gun and it is about 35-38 years old and still holds a awesome bullseye. First big game rifle was a Ruger Model 77 270. Still have that one also got it in 1977.

[270Flat]

My first gun was my moms bolt action Sears and Roebuck single shot 4-10. The stock had been cut down for her little frame, so it worked out for me to start out with. It had been handed down through my brothers and one of their sons.
After wondering through this thread i had been thinking about my first gun. So while visiting my ailing father, this past weekend my brother gave it to my 5 yr old son as his first gun. Will be perfect for him and my youngest son to start out with. Funny how the circle completes itself. 

[Broken Arrow]

My first gun was a Daisy. Then as a pre-teen i mowed yards, pulled weeds, chopped and stacked wood, etc. till i could save enough money to buy a real gun. I bought a rem .308 ( with parental help) when i was 13 and a steal head rod and bait caster.  lol....still took me many year after that to harvest both a deer and a chromer.....but i thought i was the sh*t!

[trophyhunt]

no .30-06 on the poll?

My first was a bb gun, but my first real gun was a montgomery ward .30-06, with a break away mounted scope. Missed more animals with that damn break away mounted rifle than I'd want to mention.