Tell us about your first gun? (poll added)

[bearpaw]

My first gun was a model 69, clip fed bolt action.22 rifle, spent many days shooting squirrels with that gun, my best year I got over 4000 squirrels with that gun, eventually thought I needed a new gun and sold it, but now wished I still had it.



(poll added)

[Jingles]

Mt first real gun was a J.C. Stevens 410/22 over under. No serial number and patent pending stamped on the barrel. Still have it and still use it on occasion.

[YellowDog]

First gun was an H&R single shot with 2 interchangeable barrels. I bought the 22 Hornet barrel and a 20 ga barrel. I was 10 years old and had taken over my older brother's paper route to earn the money to buy it. I think it was $119 (for some reason I think the extra barrel was 30 but I am pretty sure I didn't pay $149). Pretty sure it was purchased at Griggs sporting goods in Tri-Cities ...would have been 1982...still have it today.

[Sagehawker]

Single shot 12 gauge that I paid $35 for in 1974.  Still have that gun.  Put the hurt on a number of chukar and quail growing up in East Wenatchee playing on the breaks above the Columbia.  Good memories!

[Simcoe hunter]

My first was a Winchester Model 9422.  The smoothest, best fitting one I ever did see or handle.  I traded it for a deer rifle because I didn't have a deer gun or the money for one at the time.  Regretted it ever since.  Unless it burns up in a house fire or gets stolen an individual should do all they can to keep their first gun.  Man I could just kick myself...

[RadSav]

Mt first real gun was a J.C. Stevens 410/22 over under. No serial number and patent pending stamped on the barrel. Still have it and still use it on occasion.

Me too! 

Mine was handed down from my father.  Have killed literally hundreds of ducks, quail, grouse and pheasant with it.

First bow was a 50# Ben Pearson Mach 1.  $50.00 brand new from the local True Value.

[Fl0und3rz]

H&R single shot .410.  Still have it.   

[bearpaw]

My first was a Winchester Model 9422.  The smoothest, best fitting one I ever did see or handle.  I traded it for a deer rifle because I didn't have a deer gun or the money for one at the time.  Regretted it ever since.  Unless it burns up in a house fire or gets stolen an individual should do all they can to keep their first gun.  Man I could just kick myself...

  wished I still had my first gun too.... 

[Sliverslinger]

Winchester model 88 .308 passed down to me when I was 12 from my grandpa for deer and elk. It burned in our housefire when I was away in the army in 2001. Man, what I'd give to have it back. Eventually I will find one just like it to serve as a memory of Pa.

[b23]

My first gun that was bought with my own hard earned money, I say hard earned because I earned it cutting asparagus and anyone who has ever cut asparagus knows what a *censored*ty job that is, was a Marlin lever action 22.  I wasn't old enough to buy it myself so I had to give my dad the money and have him purchase it for me.  I was 12 so it must have been in 1980.  It's funny someone mentioned a 9422 because when I bought that Marlin 39A, what I really wanted was the Winchester 9422 but I didn't have enough money at the time to buy the Winchester and that's how I ended up with the Marlin.  I shot that Marlin until I had enough saved up to pay the difference when I traded the Marlin in on a new Win. 9422.  I liked that Marlin but when I had that new 9422 in my hands I thought I was the king of the world because I now had a "Winchester".  Not sure why but I had it in my head owning my very own Winchester was really something special.  It was only special for about 2 months because my dad, and to this day I don't know why, loaned it to a friend of his that promptly got it stolen.  I was not a very happy camper but I was 12 so there wasn't a lot I could do.  Fast forward 32 years and among the guns in my safe, way back in the corner, sits a Marlin 39A and a Winchester 9422.  They may not be my originals but they're exact replicas of guns from my youth.  Time goes by way to damn fast!  I can remember getting both those 22's like it was 32minutes ago certainly not 32 years ago.

[paytonma]

my first modern gun is a 1929 break action .410 that was my great grandfathers and as for my first muzzleloader it is a traditions deer hunter that i won when i was 6 at a shooting competition.

[muledhunter]

Remington model 600 .243.

[CAM38]

Savage model 24, 20ga./.22mag over-under, it was my dads first gun that he bought new when he was 10 in 1967, gave it to me when I was 6, didn't shoot the 20ga. til I was 8.  Really fun grouse and rabbit gun, its in the safe now, ill never part with it.

[Wilderness Addict]

My first gun was a Marlin Model 60 .22LR. I isn't a glamour gun, but it does get the job done. It has a Nikon Monarch 3-9 on top. I have had many different scopes on it, but by far the Monarch is my favorite. It is still the gun I shoot more than any other. And yes, I do remember being at the store and buying it.

[SniperDanWA]

My first gun was my great grandfathers single shot breech action Stevens 12 ga.  I still have it and my son at 16 loves shooting it.  It will be his when he turns 18.