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.

[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

[6pt-Sika]

Originally Posted by George Lang

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

My first was also a Winchester 67 I bought used when I was 7 years old I saved up $15 for the gun . My father refinished the stock and my grandfather cold blued the metal . I had it up until about 8 months ago when I donated it to a friends 6 year old !

My first shotgun was an H&R Topper 12 gauge 32" full choke gun I was given for my eighth Christmas . Parents bought it from a company called "Best" for the ungodly sum of $32 brand new .

My first real shotgun was my WW Greener BL 12 gauge with tang safety I paid $425 for that one when I was 14 years old and still have it to this day .

[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.

[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!

[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.