Your first firearm

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My first gun is a Winchester Model 06 22. We owned a hardware store 13 miles south of Yosemite. Our store sold sporting goods along with normal hardware items so I had a nearly unlimited supply of .22 ammo. Another plus was that my brothers and I had a shooting range set-up just outside the rear door of the store. This explains why the rifling of the barrel is basically non-existent today although the gun is still very accurate. The Winchester was made in 1935. We owned the store from the late 1950s through the middle of the 1960s. It was a great place and time to be a kid. California was a very different place than it is today.