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Your first firearm?

HPCR59

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If there's a similar thread, delete this one. What was your first firearm? Either bought or given to? My father built me a custom 38 caliber flintlock at around age 8.
 
Re: Your first firearm?

My first real gun was a Savage 101 .22 single shot and a cowboy holster to go with it.

My first long gun was a Savage 24-DL, .22mag over 20ga. I killed my first deer, duck, goose, grouse and pheasant with it.

My first centerfire rifle was a P-17 Enfield in .308 Norma Mag. I bought the action and paid a gunsmith to mill of the rear sight, screw on the barrel and D&T it for a scope mount. I made the stock in high school wood shop class. I killed my first elk, bear and Buick with it.
 
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My first firearm was an Iver Johnson Sidewinder .22 revolver given to me by a friend.
 
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Mine was a Winchester 37A single shot 20 gauge. Got it for Christmas when i was 12 or so.
 
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Remington Nylon 22 when I was around 11-12. Still have it break it out every once in a while.
 
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My first was a Marlin model 60 22lr for christmas when I was 10 or 11. Still have it and the $15 Tasco 4x scope that I put on it a little later. Many squirrels, rabbits, and empty "pop" cans have fallen to it over the years.
 
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Savage-Fox double barrel 20guage, given to me on Christmas 1975. I was 10 yrs. old and it was the first gun Dad ever bought me.
 
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A little revelation single shot 22. Still got it and keep it hid out in the back of the safe. Couldn't never get a bb gun, mom n dad said they were to dangerous.
 
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I got my BB gun when i was 4, then at age 7 i was handed down an old Winchester #68, single shot .22 with half bent iron sights.
The great thing was that the #68 sights are so similar to the Red Rider BB gun sights that It was only an afternoon before I was popping pecans out of the tree.
Man, those were the good times. Now we just stick the .22 conversion in the Rock River & pop pecans. After 30 years of pecans it never gets old.
 
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Ruger Mk II Govt model, my second was a Wildey in 45 Win Mag
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I had many BB/pellet guns growing up, but my first real firearm was a 870 Remington Express, 12 ga.
Grandfather bought it for me on my 16th birthday.
 
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Marlin 25MN, bought it the day I turned 18. I wasn't allowed to have guns as a kid. Still have it.
 
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Remington model 24 that my great grandfather bought in early 1920's
 
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Marlin model 37 take-down 22lr. The slides for the pump where replaced several times. Back when bricks of 22 where under 5-7$
 
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Marlin 25N, I got it on my 10th Birthday (mostly) with money from cutting grass, shoveling snow, and other odd jobs around the neighborhood. It took me the better part of a year to save the $94 for the rifle. My dad took me to buy it, he picked up a couple bricks of ammo, spare mag, and the taxes/transfer fees on everything.

I still have it and regularly shoot it. It's on the second Trigger pack at this point, I wore out the first one after about 30,000rd.
 
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First gun I saved up the $$ for and went to the shop with my dad to purchase was a Ruger Single Six .22.

That was quite a number of aluminum cans I picked up from the side of the road for that gun.
 
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Ruger m77 mk2 in .270, shot it when I was 9 and was the first gun that got me into shooting (a hobby that I now spend too much money on
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h&r 410 from coon dog trials in kenton when i was 9. a ruger 10/22 for christmas when i was 12. both presents from my dad and i still have them. i started shooting my dads guns when i was 6 and i still cant get over how cool it is to hit something accurately... way over there.
 
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Grandpa bought me a browning 12 gauge shotgun when i was probably 12-13
 
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Ruger P85 in 9mm purchased at Keflavik Naval Air Station Rod and Gun Club in 1990. Sold it 1.5 years ago.
 
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Nothing was ever handed down to me. But my first firearm was an HK USP 40, with stainless slide.