Your first firearm

[Autumn Daze]

Mark, Not that unusual. Bunnell High School my old high school still has a small bore and air rifle team. Even here in Connecticut. Trouble is the results are never published in any of the local papers.....

[Andy Humphriss]

Mine was a glen field mod 25 22 or I got it for Xmas when I was 11. Still have it, I started my son and grandson on this rifle wouldn't sell it for anything.

[chris dawe]

My first was an old Hopkins and Allen single 12 ,rickety old thing I bought from lawn cuttin money ...20 bucks I think it put me back ,I was 13 or 14 at the time but legally up here you have to 16 to own a firearm ...I never put too much thought in it .

About a year later my mile a minute mind ,came up with a jackass plan ...I got the hacksaw out and cut a pistol grip tang from 1/4 plate ,cut off the original and welded the new one in place ,re set the guts and made a set of grips ...the barrel was cut to 14 inches and a new short forend made...the ammo was high brass Imperials ,cut and emptied and topped off with a 12 bore round ball cast from my great ,great granddads musket mold ...I have never shot anything more uncomfortable ...bloody thing would almost cartwheel me ,but every 14 year old kid in town thought that I was a genius ...looking back with a shaking head and a big smile ,I think ignorance is bliss,and obviously blind luck was on my side !!!

[ForrestArmstrong]

After Daisy & Benjamin air rifles, my first 22 was a Winchester 77, centerfire a Winchester 1894 25-35, shotgun an LC Smith 12 gauge. I have fond memories of time spent with those guns but all have been traded up for much nicer guns that I would rather own, something I continue to do.

[Mike Murphy]

Marlin Golden Model 39 .22. Traded it off eventually to help finance a Browning Auto-5. Traded that off for a Remington Model 1100. Regretted having to trade those two guns and have only traded a couple of others in the past 55 tears. As someone once asked, "What happens when you trade a gun?" Answer - "You don't have it any more!".

[todd allen]

My first real gun was an Eastern Arms .410 single shot, that I got from my grandfather atage 12. I still have it, btw.

[Robert Delk]

Colt 1911 with a 4 digit serial number that had been welded shut and painted red.Hit my brother on the head with it and it disappeared.

[Blind Dog]

"My" first gun was and is (see below) an H&R 20 Topper my Dad got for the family when I was 12. The first firearm that I bought with my own money was a Swedish Lahti military pistol in 9mm with Holster and two extra mags and cleaning rod. I was 14 at the time; and, saw the add in F&S from Klien's of Chicago (later, Oswald's supplier). I sent in the order form with my true age and a postal money order for about $25 as I recall and Klien's wrote back that I would have to have a parent sign for it but kept my money. So, I had to tell Dad what I had in mind. He did sign for it but took possession, keeping it with our other guns. He also bought a box of shells for it for $5, big money back then. We shot it in the basement into the coal bin, pretty loud. About 10 years later, I traded it for a Hi Standard target .22.

[Angel Cruz Ortiz]

I got my first gun from my Uncle Sam back in Sept. of 75 in a place call Paris Island. The cheap bastard took it back..

[Grantham Forester]

Originally Posted by Angel Cruz

I got my first gun from my Uncle Sam back in Sept. of 75 in a place call Paris Island. The cheap bastard took it back..

Creo que se escribe "Parris" Island, no es verdad, amigo??