I was thinking about when I was a kid and it got me thinking about the first gun I ever shot. Mine was a 22 from Browning. I think it was a T-bolt but it might have been a CZ as well, not sure. I just remember it being a brown 22lr rifle that was really quiet and we didn't wear ear or eye protection.

22lr Browning Buckmark. Followed by a Beretta 92fs.

M16A2-- yep, never even saw a firearm up-close and in person until I had signed away my good years.

Browning A5 12 gauge

 

Handguns: Zastava M70 (32 ACP)

 

 

 

 

 

Rifles: M-48 in 8mm

 

 

Also was issued an M-70AB2 during my 6month stint in the Yugo Army

 

S&W model 10

It was either an 8mm Mauser or my wife's (gf at the time) S&W .357 K frame. They were both present at my first shoot; don't remember which one i pulled the trigger on first. It may have been the Mauser.

When I was 7/8 my dumb drunk ass father thought it would be funy to watch me shoot his 12ga on the 4th of July.

i belive it was a 38 with a 2" barrel . i shot it and it almost fell out of my hands . boy did they think that was funny. i was mabe 10 at the time.

Forgot age, but my grandpas remington pump action .22, followed by a 12ga shotgun shortly after (1100?). My first handgun was a beretta cougar m8045 at South Philadelphia Archery & gun club

I learned on my dad's Remington Targetmaster .22 single shot. Still have it, still shoot it.

.22 rifle. I was way too young (4 years old) to remember anything about it other than it kicked a**. As somebody else said, no hearing or eye protection.

S&W model 10

 

Model 15 was my first handgun, mom still has it.

I shot a .38 special out of a smith and wesson stubby.

 

 

ruger 10/22 star 22 pistol and my dads 38 service revolver.. he still has them all..about 8 years old at the time..

 

At the stafford police range, all you had to do back then was sighn up at the police dept to use the range.. :thsmiley_deadhorse:

i was about 10-11 and my father let us shoot clay pigeons with a 12 mossberg gauge shotgun in my uncles backyard they kept laughing at me and my little brother cause we kept saying it hurt our shoulders.. then we took off our shirts and we had the biggest strawberrys ever cause the recoil was kickin our a**

.410 crack barrel... Dont remember what kind.. I remember it being close to a Rossi style that we see today...I could not pull back the hammer...After shooting my first duck with it my dad said I was hooked.. always begging to go hunting...either duck or dove is what he did so I was there with him..."cock it daddy"."cock it daddy" he said is all I used to say in the hunting blind. Of course he wouldnt until I was ready to shoot...my first lesson in safety....

 

I have a 10 yr old little brother and now that my dad has passed I am stepping in as big brother and doing that same with him..I only get to see him every so often but he loves to shoot and I think he has the bug already too. My guns will be his guns one day.

 

Thanks Ray for the trip down memory lane on this "finally looks like Spring" morning.

First rifle I shot was my uncles M1Carbine while up in Maine to visit them. Needless to say they have a special place in my heart, and I would most likely own three by now...thanks NJ.

First Rifle and a young age (single digit age range) a Marlin Golden 39A built in 1958 and a Marlin 336 30-30, and I own both of them and my father had the originals.

 

First Hand gun I can't remember but after close to 30 years away from firearms, I bought my first handgun a Block 19 in January and have added a bunch of other's, as many as time has allowed with this OGAM crap.

 

By the way, when you spell check, don't use the recommended change for OGAM.

 

Harry

1st) A CO2 powered BB gun in the basement of my parents house, my dad borrowed it from a friend for a few weeks... Yup, totally illegal...

2nd) A 22LR pistol - either a Woodsman or a 22 revolver as my cousin took me to an indoor range, I progress from that to a 9mm then a 38 and then a 1911 by the end of the day.

.22LR Bolt action in boy scouts. No clue what model it was.

20 gauge shot gun I was about 16 then hadn't touched another firearm (besides bb guns) until last summer when we took a trip to North Carolina and tried a bunch of different pistols. Since then I have been hooked and own a 92fs g23gen4 and a m&p 15-22.

Daisy BB gun, then .22 Rem. Model 4 rolling block. First handgun was a Red Jacket .32 cal. rimfire revolver.

Block 19, Gen 2 rental at a range in Charleston, SC. Bought a Gen3 when I turned 22 (a decade later).

 

G-lock... not Block... hmmm

Outside of 22s on the boardwalk the first gun I shot was an M14 in basic training at Ft Dox.

Outside of 22s on the boardwalk the first gun I shot was an M14 in basic training at Ft Dox.

 

I also shot a 22 on the boardwalk as a kid. It was a remington semiauto with black synthetic stock. Do they have them anymore?

wow wish I knew.... all I can tell you is that it was in central PA.. I was pretty young.. 7ish? and it was a semi automatic tube fed .22, and that is all it took...

I used to shoot the boardwalk shooting gallery when I was a kid. In Coney Island. The shooting gallery is a lot different there now.

Don't remember what the first gun other then it was a 12 gauge pump action that hurt like hell and was very heavy to hold at the time. I was 10 or 11 years at the time and it was with the boy scouts. I was then switched to a 20 gauge H&R Topper (or something extremely similar) still hurt like hell though.

My first was a pellet gun at around 6 or 7. Then I used to shoot my dad's .22 bolt all the time, then I started using the side by side 20ga. By the time I was in my teens I was regularly shooting a Ruger Mark II, a Ruger 22 magnum revolver, a .44 magnum and a 22-250 and very rarely the 1911s came out. Once my step dad became a gun dealer, I shot everything that came through the shop that needed shooting.