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Equipment & Gear => Guns and Ammo => Topic started by: bearpaw on July 20, 2013, 10:46:16 PM
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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...
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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.
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H&R single shot .410. Still have it.
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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...
:yeah: wished I still had my first gun too.... :(
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Remington model 600 .243.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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First one was an Iver Johnson 16ga single shot. Plastic stock and fore end. Plug in the stock to let you add weight. Next one was a huge set up in quality. 16ga Mossberg bolt action with a c-lect choke. Ah the good ole days of quality firearms!
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My 1st gun was a model 37 Ithaca...20ga .. I could go on forever telling stories about that gun ..When I 1st got that gun I was 9 and it was a Christmas present ...the gun was about a foot and a half taller than me :chuckle: it was my squirrel gun up to about 11 then I switched over to my .22 for squirrel hunting and used my 20 ga for rabbit -pheasant and grouse ...Man I seriously had one hell of a childhood ..when I think back to those days I get all choked up ..never had all these stupid laws to worry about ...did not need to put in for permits to hunt something ..just buy your license and hunt like a wild man ...I think we all would love to live those days just one more time and we better take every minute we can while we are still here to enjoy it ...
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My first "fake" gun was a .177 cal crossman bb gun I got for Christmas. Had no idea when I opened it that it was anything other than a toy till I got the safety talk from dad. It slowly sank in that it could actually shoot stuff! Birds were in real trouble at our place for several years after that. I shot that thing till it disintegrated.
shortly after that I got a shotgun. Break action single shot 410 with a barrel stamped "K-Mart". I took that on many a duck trip until my dad forced me to move to a 20gauge.
I still have that little tiny 410 and she gets out at least once a year whenever I have a small framed lady or child shooter that I am taking out who might be recoil shy.
great stories everyone by the way!
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Semi automatic .22 marlin bought at the Colfax Coast to Coast in 1980, still have it. I couldn't begging to count how many ground squirrels, or rock chucks that things has exterminated! :chuckle:
Earned by pulling rouge rye from wheat, and barley fields, looking back on it it seemed harder to do as kid, but know it I think of all the long hikes I do and those fields seem small. :chuckle:
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Winchester Model 94, 25-35. My dad bought it right after he was discharged from the navy, after WW2. He gave it to me when I passed hunter ed in 1963, I was 9 years old. I killed the biggest blacktail of my life with that rifle that year!! Its still in my gun safe.
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Mine was an old Mossberg 22 LR, model 25A, single shot, bolt action that had a old match book folded up under the rear sights for elevation adjustment. I killed a ton of squirrels with that gun. I graduated up to a Winchester Model 94 30-30 that I killed my first deer with. I sold them years ago to a friend of mine because I desperately needed money. I regretted it for the longest time and tried to buy them back but he didn't want to part with them. A few years ago he just gave them back at no charge (although I ended up giving him a few things he needed in trade). They haven't been shot again yet but I'm going to hang onto them this time no matter what. A lot of memories go along with those guns.
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This is a great thread. It's funny, I can relate to nearly everything that has been mentioned and it's taking me back to some GREAT memories that I can only hope my daughter will some day have.
All these anti-gun nuts think we are the ones who are crazy but they don't and can't understand the passion we posses for our guns and that it started when we were all just kids. Those people have no clue as to what they missed out on. Ok, I'll get off my soap box now. :)
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My dad gave me my 1st gun for Christmas when I was 12. It was the 1st Christmas that my parents were divorced. He got me a Ruger 10/22. I still have it of course. It was a huge deal for him at the time due to all the other hardships and at 40 years old, I remember it like it was yesterday.
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Double barrel clicker gun on Xmas four days before my 2nd birthday 1960.???
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My first gun was given to me by my older brother i had just got out of the the navy in 1978 he had just bought a new 7 MM so he give me his mauser action 30-06 i still have this gun put a new stock on it a few years back replaced the 2 stage trigger at the same time trigger broke so its sitting in the gun cabinet till i get it fixed will never get rid of this gun because my brother who started me hunting gave it to me it kicks like a mule but when you hit something its going down.
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After the Daisy thing,and that gun killed 1000s of birds, then I turned 8 or 9 I got a marlin bolt action, don't remember the model # Had that gun for 40 something years and then lost it to our house fire..I couldn't even find any metal parts to that poor gun, and boy did I dig around.
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410's seem to be winning,
Mine was a Sears & Roebuck 410 single center break. Still have it today, my 11Yr. old is using it now. I believe my dad ordered it right out of the catalogue in 1975.
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My first was a JC Higgins 22 semi auto. It had been my granddads. I remember my dad and granddad taking me out to shoot it. Sure don’t remember how old I was. It was the first real rifle I ever shot. I still remember my grandpa trying to adjust the windage on it with a center punch and a rock that day. :yike: The forward site was dove tail set and the rear sight only set the elevation. Well that gun always shot to the left after that. :chuckle: They didn’t get it right. :DOH: So I ended up with it. I learned to shoot that with Kentucky windage and I could nail a muskrat at 150 yards. I gave it to my brother who still has it and probably never shot it. The Turkey. >:( He was supposed to give it to my son about 16, 17 years ago. He is a little late now. My son teaches me about the current and up and coming rifles and pistols on the market nowadays.
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My first gun was a 1960's winchester single shot 22 that has no serial number. My mom bought it for me at a pawn shop one year. This was when I lived in wyoming and I would spend my summer days plinking praire dogs and any other cirtter that was dumb enough to come on our property :IBCOOL: I still have that gun and one day it will be handed down to my son:tup:
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My first gun was a 1960's winchester single shot 22 that has no serial number. My mom bought it for me at a pawn shop one year. This was when I lived in wyoming and I would spend my summer days plinking praire dogs and any other cirtter that was dumb enough to come on our property :IBCOOL: I still have that gun and one day it will be handed down to my son:tup:
I never had one of these single shot 22s due to a mostly suburban upbringing - we shot the barrel out of our BB guns though. However, before our son was born, I picked up a pawnshop Remington 510 Targetmaster single shot for him (no SN also). I can't wait for the day to present it to him.
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Never really owned any of the .22s or single shot shot guns we shot as kids, and the first rifle I hunted with was a 99C .300 Savage. First gun I bought for hunting was a 600 Remington in .308. It was stolen years ago.
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My first gun was an H&R break open single shot 12 gauge. Would blow your shoulder off, but fun to shoot! The first gun I used to hunt deer when I was 11 was a winchester .32 special, octagon barrel, lever action with a peep. Grampa still has it! I am going to do my best to keep that one in the family.
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My first gun was a JC Higgins bolt action 20 gauge with a two round clip. My dad picked it up at dumb Dicks pawn shop for $60.00 when I was 11 years old. I shot the hell out of that gun. It was stolen along with 12 other rifle's three years later out of my dads house. A kid from school that I brought into our house found a jackpot and ripped us off. Never did get any of the guns back nor was the kid convicted of any crime. Lesson learned be damned sure you know who you let into your house and never let them know how to get into your guns.
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Winchester Model 12 12 gauge 3" bought in 1959 with money I made vending in the stands at the local baseball field. Heavy gun for a kid at that age (12) but it was the gun I wanted. I don't think the ducks, geese, pheasants etc. I shot with that gun would fit in a semi. Still own it, but it's been in "semi retirement" for quite a while now. Lot of memories when I get it out now.
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..Man I seriously had one hell of a childhood ..when I think back to those days I get all choked up ..never had all these stupid laws to worry about ...did not need to put in for permits to hunt something ..just buy your license and hunt like a wild man ...I think we all would love to live those days just one more time and we better take every minute we can while we are still here to enjoy it ...
Your not a kidden!!! I walked right through the Sears and Roebuck at North Town in Spokane with my 22 in my hands. Went to the part counter and ordered the lever for that 22 I had. I was around 15 or 16.
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First was a Red Ryder BB gun, then I bought an Ithica Model 37 20ga shotgun at 12 years old. Lots of ducks and pheasants and a snow goose or two. My first Rifle was a Winchester Model 70 30-06 which I killed my first buck with, a mule deer 4x4 w/eye guards. This set me on a lifelong love of firearms. I still have my first guns.....
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My first gun was a Marlin 336 .30-30 got it 12 years ago hunted twice with it and never failed to fill my tag. It remains my only deer rifle not sure if I'll ever change that.
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I bought my first gun in 1974. It's a Model 700 Remington Classic in .30-06. A neighbor gave me a Redfield widefield scope to mount on it and it's still on it today. I killed my first deer, a doe weighing 135 lbs dressed, and many other deer since. It's a sweet gun.
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My first real gun was a Model 1903 Eddystone in 30-06 when I was 11 years old (long time ago). It still has the flip up peep site on it. The guy who had it before me shortened the stock's fore end. Otherwise, it was straight out of WWII. As a Christmas present, my Mom bought it for $40 bucks from an old neighbor friend of ours. Shot my first deer w/that one. Snuck up on a little two point and shot him behind the ear. Still have the rifle.
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It was a Remington 700 BDL 7mm Remington Magnum, busted my hump when I was 14 to make the cash. Had my father take me to the gun shop and pointed out that brand new shiny BDL. Of course my father had been brain washed by that clown Jack O'Conner and just shook his head in disapproval as he ponied up my loot to purchase the rifle. We walked out the door of the shop, he handed me my rifle and several boxes of cartridges and I've been killing the crap out of stuff ever since.
Several Elk and Mulies later, it was shelved for a Rem700 in .338 Win Mag.
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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.
Winchester model 88 in .308 here too, given to me by grandpa. Took my first ten or so deer with it and then it was stolen. Still looking to replace it, I've owned many guns since then but it was my favorite
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22 single shot rifle.. I still own it today.
The firearm is 45 years old..
Rare.Indeed
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Reading along as J.O.C. Hunted around N. America with his custom 270's as a young boy in the early 70's, I bucked bales, mowed yards, and changes hand lines to buy a 270 adl Remington. Bought a K-4, and used it for many years on everything from chucks to elk! Became a familiar friend to me..traded it for a 600 Mohawk in .243, but always have a soft spot when an ADL .270 comes thru my shop....alway dreamed of a Biesen built .270 for the memories, but recently settled on a Biesen built 25/06 Ackley...might have to bust my bear this year with that one!
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Centurion Sporter in .270 I bought when i was 15. Dad put a Leupold 3x9 on it for my birthday which is worth more than the gun. Still have it, even though it isn't my primary big game rifle any more. It still shoots pretty good with hand loads and it blows up a considerable amount of varmints every year. If I am ever blessed to go on a goat or sheep hunt, it would be the gun that i take.
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I started with a Diana air rifle .177 when I was 7 or 8, on my 10th birthday I got a Remington Ryder No.3 in 24 ga. I loved that shotgun, deadly on rabbits, geese and ducks. I was sorry to hear my dad had sold it, ammo was almost impossible to get but I enjoyed reloading sells with the old man.
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poll added...
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Voted, 22 Rimfire rifle....
Marlin model 60 :)
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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.
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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.
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semi automatic marlin 22 when I was 10 years old
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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.
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Winchester model 70 xtr featherweight 257 roberts, passed down from my dad
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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.
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no .30-06 on the poll?
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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.
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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).
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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. :)
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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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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.
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Remington .22 Nylon 66...still have it!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Remington 870 20 gauge LW Magnum
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no .30-06 on the poll?
That is .308 caliber....
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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.
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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. :'(
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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.)
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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.
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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. :)
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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!
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no .30-06 on the poll?
:yeah: 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.
