Your first firearm

[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!

[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...

[Austin J Hawthorne Jr.]

I was given two guns by my grandfather. The first was a .22 cal. Stevens Favorite with a half round/half octagonal barrel. I believe I was around 10 at the time. The second was a Mossberg bolt action 20 ga. I was twelve then and my dad and grandfather let me hunt with them that year. Sadly, both of those guns were lost in a fire.

[Researcher]

My first gun was a Winchester Model 67 .22 LR. My Father's Uncle, my Great Uncle Art, was a gunsmith in North Seattle. Art oil finished the stock, fitting it with an ebony forearm tip and a grip cap, and checkered the grip and forend. He also fitted a Mossberg scope. My Model 67, along with my Mother's early "finger groove" Model 67, my Father's Remington 16-gauge AE-Grade double (P136036) and a .44 calber H & R Model 1905 were stolen from my Father's house in 1978.

[wayne goerres]

Winchester model 70 bull barrel in 243 Winchester. First double only marked US armory steel.

[C.O.B.]

Wayne that m70 is a hell of a first gun I know where there's a nice one in 220 Swift that's for sale. What to do, what to do????

[fred]

Iver Johnson Champion 410 single barrel in 1947.

[charlie cleveland]

stevens model 311 double barrel 410 given to me by my father in 1957 i was 10... charlie