Tell us about your first gun? (poll added)

[bearpaw]

poll added...

[TheSkyBuster]

Voted,  22 Rimfire rifle....



Marlin model 60 

[Angus]

When I was 10 my dad told me he would buy me a .22 as soon as I passed a hunter safety class, I got into a class and it finished up on a Friday night, we planned on gun shopping the following morning, I don't think I slept at all that night. I got a Marlin model 25, I love that gun and couldn't tell you how many thousand rounds have gone down the tube. Gave it to my daughter last year.

[Widgeondeke]

For Christmas wben I was 10y/o.
It is a Western Auto pump .410 full choke.
I still have it and my 10y/o son just used it when he did the shooting part of hunter ed.
I used it for 8yrs. Killed many squirrels,  quail, waterfowl and pheasants.

[bowhunterforever]

semi automatic marlin 22 when I was 10 years old

[Lunchbox1981]

First was a Daisy Red Ryder for my fourth birthday.  It's still around for when the nephews and neice's come to visit.

Then for 7th Birthday Springfield 1924 single shot 12ga shotgun.  Bought from a pawnshop in Gillete Wyoming.  Still kicks like a mule.  For chirtmas that year I got a brand new bolt action .22lr can't remember the model number for the life of me though.

[TripleB]

 Winchester model 70 xtr featherweight 257 roberts, passed down from my dad

[jyerxa]

I see a pole was added.

I was 5 and got a bb gun from my great granddad for Christmas. I still have that here in my house today. It is a daisy but not the Red Rider kind. It is smaller than that one.

[pianoman9701]

no .30-06 on the poll?

[GoldTip]

First gun was a Daisy air rifle for Christmas at age 4 1/2.  Spent many days sitting in the basement shooting BB's at a paper target with a bullseye drawn on it.  Dad/Mom hung up an old comforter in our basement and I would sit on the basement stair and shoot bb's at it.  Was allowed to only pump it twice, that way it wouldn't penetrate the comforter and would just drop on the ground.  Spent many days sweeping up bb's and shooting them again after pulling them out of the dust pan and putting a hand full of the in my mouth to hold them.  Next was an old Stevens single shot 22lr at age 6 for my birthday.

[Curly]

My first gun was a bb gun.  The first real gun I used for hunting was a Savage in 22 over 410; it wasn't really my gun though.......it was my dad's and I just got to use it a lot for grouse and share it with my brother.

Then for Christmas (I think I was 11) I got a Remington youth LT 20 ga model 1100.  Still one of my favorite guns (some 34 years later).

[tsimp1211]

First gun was a Daisy .177 BB gun that killed a many soda cans.  I got pretty good with that thing.  Later when I was 12 or so dad bought a 10/22.  Lots of memories with that gun as well.  My grandfather gave me my first hunting rifle, a Weatherby mark V in 300 Weatherby Mag.  As you can imagine it took some getting used to.  I shot my first deer with that rifle.  When I was 22 I sold it to a buddy of mine who took it to Alaska with him.  After my son was born, I realized the mistake that I had made.  Being the good guy he is, he sold it back to me.  Right now it is sitting in the closet, not being used.  I think its time to fire it up again.   

[tazman2800]

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. 

[Emptyhanded]

First was my Red Ryder at age 4. Then at 6 my grandpa bought my brother and I matching Chipmunk .22's. First centerfire I saved up for and bought a Remington Model 7 in .243 win at age 10.

[jamesjett]

Remington .22 Nylon 66...still have it!