Anybody have the first gun you fired, the gun you learned on
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Anybody have the first gun you fired, the gun you learned on
My father started me shooting when i was 2 1/2 years old; i once asked him about this---why that early age---and he looked at me and said that was the same age he started; on further questioning he gave me an amused and slightly bewildered look and said well that was the same age all his family started at----brothers and father,etc, and he guessed that had always been the age they learned at! Bear in mind that my gggggrandfather was a Hessian mercenary soldier [captured on december 26 1776 when Washington crossed the deleware and attacked the Hessian garrison, number 37 on the prisoner list: Kaspar Goebel, anglicized later to Cable]; i wonder if 2 1/2 was the age mercernaries started their training...it was a profession of sorts. well anyway, i learned on a Stevens Junior rolling block [ or falling block] 22, a youth gun.
It was purchased from a sears catalog for about $1.35 sometime before my father was born in 1916, as his older brother first used it.
I had to stick the short stock under my armpit to aim, and i still remember it. Like I suspect most of you, i shot well from the beginning. My father passed on in 1991, and of course I still miss him, especially as I post this.
It is one of my most precious possessions, and I know it will be the same for my son.
Anybody else got their first gun?
It was purchased from a sears catalog for about $1.35 sometime before my father was born in 1916, as his older brother first used it.
I had to stick the short stock under my armpit to aim, and i still remember it. Like I suspect most of you, i shot well from the beginning. My father passed on in 1991, and of course I still miss him, especially as I post this.
It is one of my most precious possessions, and I know it will be the same for my son.
Anybody else got their first gun?
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Yes, if you count BB guns and yes it is a lever gun!! an old Daisy, looks like a Win 1886. Still works, can see the rainbow tragectory of the BB as it flies. What a hoot.
Also still have my Win 97 12 gauge. Was passed to me from my Great Grand Father. Unfortunately it met with an accident. I'm finishing up a rebuild that has taken better than 20 years searching out parts. It will hunt again this year.
Must be why I like older guns, fun to shoot, fun to repair and the stories.
Also still have my Win 97 12 gauge. Was passed to me from my Great Grand Father. Unfortunately it met with an accident. I'm finishing up a rebuild that has taken better than 20 years searching out parts. It will hunt again this year.
Must be why I like older guns, fun to shoot, fun to repair and the stories.
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Yes...I have it and am trying to restore it: A Ward's Western Field(Mossberg) 47A made in 1937. I was 5 when I started using it..but it was big for me, went to the Ithaca Mod. 49 single shot until I got bigger and back to the Western Field before she finally broke. It has not worked since the 70's but I hope to get some parts to fix it soon. I believe it belonged to my Grandfather before my Dad, then me.
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Winchester bolt action single shot .22. I'm sure it has a model number, but I'll be darned if I can find it on the rifle. Basically, what was called a "Boys Rifle". Always did shoot better than I could. Much fun on jacks and such. Made one very careful when that shot was taken, there being only one.
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"Go low, go slow and preferably in the dark" The old Sarge (he was maybe 24.
"Freedom is never more that a generation from extinction" Ronald Reagan
"Every man should have at least one good rifle and know how to use it" Dad
Yeah - my Dad let me buy it (I saved up my allowance) and paid $36 for a H&R 9-shot .22LR nickle-plated revolver. When I became legal age, he turned it over to me and I still take it out shooting from time to time. It's my favorite gun for teaching girls how to shoot.
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Remington 16 gauge, Remington 22, Winchester 30-30. All came out in my youth when we'd go shooting. All passed down from my great-grandfather. All still in the family. All never to be sold. First for me was the 22 at four, then the 30-30 and 16 gauge around 10, they don't seem to kick so hard now!
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I actually started much later than most of you. Other than the .22LR I shot at summer camp with the BSA in my teens; my first gun I ever bought was/is my 870 12 ga. I have since restocked it in Max-4 and gussied it up a might for duck hunting. But, it still serves very well!
First levergun I ever shot was my first project gun. My 336T/A that srted life as a JCPenny 3040 in p/g configuration. I hadn't even been thinking about leverguns, or even rifles as a matter of fact until I walked into Ramsey Outdoor Store in Ramsey, NJ and my buddy Ron in hunting told me about USRAC's impending demise. With that he showed me the last Ranger they had for $279. I hadn't been planning to buy a rifle so I told him I hadda go home and sell the idea to my "little cure for happiness". When I came back the next day it was sold. A quick check with every other shop in the area turned up a similar response. It was like all Winchester 94's had been stricken from the face of every pylon and obelisk in Eqypt like Mose's name! A few days later my spice salesman came by with this gun in his van. Said he had taken it off of some crackhead dishwasher's hands for $100. I offered him $125 for it and have been hooked ever since!
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First levergun I ever shot was my first project gun. My 336T/A that srted life as a JCPenny 3040 in p/g configuration. I hadn't even been thinking about leverguns, or even rifles as a matter of fact until I walked into Ramsey Outdoor Store in Ramsey, NJ and my buddy Ron in hunting told me about USRAC's impending demise. With that he showed me the last Ranger they had for $279. I hadn't been planning to buy a rifle so I told him I hadda go home and sell the idea to my "little cure for happiness". When I came back the next day it was sold. A quick check with every other shop in the area turned up a similar response. It was like all Winchester 94's had been stricken from the face of every pylon and obelisk in Eqypt like Mose's name! A few days later my spice salesman came by with this gun in his van. Said he had taken it off of some crackhead dishwasher's hands for $100. I offered him $125 for it and have been hooked ever since!
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I don't know. I have Dad's old Daisy 1894 that he gave me, but as for real guns, I don't know if I still have it or not. It was an old J.C. Higgins .22 auto that I inherited from my grandmother. I had been shooting it, and not being the good gun owner I am now, I didn't clean it right away; I stuck it in the corner to "clean it later." Later never came. My young cousins were coming over, so Mom hid the gun somewhere they couldn't get at it, and she forgot where. Haven't been able to find it since. There's also the possibility that one of my sister's old boyfriends swiped it, but I don't like to think about that.
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Yep.
I have my High School JROTC Remington 513-T. I was able to "liberate" it once Small Bore Rifle became too un-PC for High School any more.
And to think we once shot in the Gym...
I have my High School JROTC Remington 513-T. I was able to "liberate" it once Small Bore Rifle became too un-PC for High School any more.
And to think we once shot in the Gym...
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My father's Remington 511 is what I learned on. It was the rifle my father learned with and was his first gun. I still have it today and taught my son to shoot with it. My son has moved to autos by adopting an HK300 that was in my safe. The 511 still has some good case colors on it but the barrel bluing is getting thin.
To this day, I am probably a better shot with that rifle than I am with any of the others I own. This is likely due to having run many 1000's of rounds through it when I was a kid. All of the places I used to go shooting with it in the woods are now large gated communities in Apopka, FL.
To this day, I am probably a better shot with that rifle than I am with any of the others I own. This is likely due to having run many 1000's of rounds through it when I was a kid. All of the places I used to go shooting with it in the woods are now large gated communities in Apopka, FL.
My first gun I ever fired was my Dads Remington 552 Speedmaster .22, He still has it
My second gun was my Dads Marlin 336A 30-30 1949 vintage. Shot my first Mulie with it at age 12. Dad gave it to me after that. It has killed a mess of deer and it has been through a fire when our house was hit by lightning.
Wouldn't change a thing about it!
My second gun was my Dads Marlin 336A 30-30 1949 vintage. Shot my first Mulie with it at age 12. Dad gave it to me after that. It has killed a mess of deer and it has been through a fire when our house was hit by lightning.
Wouldn't change a thing about it!
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First BB gun was the daisy styled like the winchester 94 at age 7. It broke internally and my father couldn't fix it so I saved my pennies, got a target daisy lever with the peep sights and still have that. Used the 94 as a toy for a long time after but it's long gone. First 22 was my father's Stevens Whippit, it's at my brother's house. First high powered rifle was a 30/30 1893 with a 26 octagon barrel that also belonged to my father, my brother has that. I got it's (fraternal )twin in 38-55 a few years back. Had a 30/30 short rifle 1893 for about 12 years before that(still have). First shotgun was a Stevens Topper Jr. 20 ga. that I still have, after it went through my brothers and their children, it wound up back with me. There's a grand nephew toddling around that will probably be getting it in a few year though.
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I learned to shoot with a Montgomery Ward bolt action single shot .22 rifle. My Dad still has it.
My first rifle was a Model 64 in 25-35 my Uncle gave me on my 14th birthday that I not only still have, but still shoot the daylights out of! Just worked up a really nice cast bullet load for it that I've been experimenting with using an RCBS 100 gr that is casting at about 108grs that I'm just substituting for the 117gr Hornady I've always used. Getting 1" groups at 50 yards, the farthest I've shot it so far
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My first rifle was a Model 64 in 25-35 my Uncle gave me on my 14th birthday that I not only still have, but still shoot the daylights out of! Just worked up a really nice cast bullet load for it that I've been experimenting with using an RCBS 100 gr that is casting at about 108grs that I'm just substituting for the 117gr Hornady I've always used. Getting 1" groups at 50 yards, the farthest I've shot it so far
Jeff
First firearm I fired was my Dad's Win model 67 with peep sights, single shot. I still have it. Before that a 22 cal pellet rifle, Daisy mod 94 look alike before that a Daisy colt 45 SA look alike. The small birds, squirrels and groundhogs around our home sure were nervous.
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Yes I do. My dad bought this winchester octogon barrel model 61 .22 LR in the late 1930s. I learned to shoot with it. Dad was 6ft 5"s and added the block of wood to the stock. I have seen him hit a flying blackbird with it! Dad won a turkey shoot once with it. I remember seeing his competion with bolts and scopes and told him he wasnt going to do well. He just said, "they still got to hold those rifles", and he won! We would go to the dump and he taught me aerial shooting where I could shoot pill bottels in the air etc. He was good! Here is a picture of the gun and one of him in those days. He died at almost 90 in 2003. I had to take a 1917 .45 acp S&W from under his mattress when he went to the rest home. I am showing it also.
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Yep, still have it! Winchester model 1890 22 pump action. Granddad taught my brother and I to shoot with it. When we went to visit during the summers, he would let us take it rabbit hunting. Catch was, he would only give us one round each. If we missed, we had to walk back to the house for another round, and explain why we missed!
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First Gun Ever Fired
It was a Winchester model 69A .22 bolt action rifle that I bought for $10 from a family friend when I was a teenager. Still have that little beauty and many other hand and long guns acquired over the years.