Your first firearm

[C.O.B.]

I remember my first real gun like it was yesterday. There was a sporting goods store a short bike ride away called Beech & Heuman's in Jackson, MI. It was a place where in the mid 60's a kid could look at guns and big game mounts on the wall. I wanted one of those new plastic stocked Remington Nylon 66 .22's. A friend of my fathers who was a shooter and a hunter went with me on several occasions and he suggested a real gun with a wood stock, preferably a pump as I knew when it had a live round as I had put it in the chamber. I bought a Remington Field master 22 pump. I still have that gun. When it was time for my little brother Joe to get his first gun he got one also and now I have that as well. Today the Nylon 66 might be worth more than the pump gun but I wouldn't trade it for one.

[Greg Phillips]

Stevens 16 ga single shot, then soon after a Savage 22/410 with lyman peep sight, then Nylon 66, later Rem 1100 12 ga and Marlin 30-30. Still have all except the 22/410 wish I had that one too.

First Parker VH 16 30" poor condition bought in pawn shop, don't miss that one.

[King Cobb]

Mine was a no name brand youth model break action 20 gauge. Killed more then a few dove with it. I thought it was cool because it had camo on the action--didn't realize at the tender age of 10 that it was CCH.

[George Lang]

Winchester model 67, .22, single shot. Still have it and use it regularly.

[Bill Murphy]

Model 24 Winchester 20 gauge serial number 26,497. It is 26" and bored cylinder and modified. I would like to have it back if someone knows where it is. I think the fellow who bought it back in the late fifties was from Texas, but it was sold in MD.

[10 bore]

.22 marlin bolt action I got in 1972 and still have it and still shoot, it I just shot my 3 rd porcupine of this year with it last week . They have been killing my acorn tree out back

[Jawjadawg]

Field Grade LC Smith 20ga. My mom was PISSED that Xmas morning, but my dad cared not a lick. The barrels seperated on me at the muzzle before I knew about shooting low pressure, etc. That resulted in barrels being reblued, and the fellow who did that used a torch to redo the colors on the locks. I didn't know any better for over 20 years, but now it makes me sick to look at it. I have tossed around the idea of having it properly redone. If so, then it might one day become my nephew's first.

[Roundsworth]

Mine was a Monkey Wards Model 100SB. It was a single shot 20 gauge made by Savage(Stevens?). It was the summer of 1972. I vividly recall how little fragments of primers would find their way into the skin on my trigger finger!

[Patrick Butler]

If do not count my Daisy BB gun, it was a Winchester Mod. 69A bolt action target model with a heavy barrel and a sling. I was about ten years old. It was later fitted with peep sights so I could shoot Jr. small bore, then a Weaver scope for small game.
I recently gave it to one of my nephew's sons. I shot thousands of rounds (50 cents per box via some NRA deal) and never had a malfunction.

My first shotgun was a pump Remington 870 16 G, it had a second shorter barrel that was choked Mod. I quickly moved to my grandfather's Mod. 12, nickel steel, with a 12,000 serial number. I still have that gun, but it is on it's going to my nephew when we meet up in a few months. My grandfather bought it when he lived in North Dakota and that 12 really saw some action. Sadly, no SXS in my family. We drove Fords and shot Winchesters...

[Smoothebore]

I was a late bloomer. First was a Rem 1100 12ga in 1992. That was followed shortly with my first double gun, a Stevens 310 .410 ga.