Your first firearm

[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.

[Wild Skies]

This Weatherby Mark XXII was my 1st, it was under the tree when we got home from church services on Christmas Eve in 1965.

[Leighton Stallones]

Mine was a 16 ga Mossberg bolt action. In 1955 I Saw it,in the window of the local furniture store that also sold shotgun shells individually. I thought it was a wonder gun wit a clip that hels two shells and tha miraculous poly choke. None of my friends had anything so advanced. Still have it and use it for my first Dove hunt every year.

[Tim Howsman]

Mine was a Sears single shot 20 gauge (from around 1970). Kicked like a mule!