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My very first gun/ pictures

Oakie

This is my very first gun, that my dad bought me when I was five. Sears and Roebuck 22 rifle, youth model. I cannot wait to pass this down to my first grandchild someday. Do you still have your first firearm??? Oakie


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  • William81

    I have the first one I bought myself..... Ithaca 37 Featherweight 12 ga. Circa 1974

    And the first gun I ever fired...

    Ruger Standard Model MK I....I was 7 years old when my Dad started teaching me gun safety and let me fire it. I inherited it when Dad passed...


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  • swamp_thing

    I can't even remember my first firearm but I do have a marlin 22 that looks just like that. I believe the marlin is an 85dl if I remember right. Of course, I've already established my poor memory🙂

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  • RossoRacer

    My first ever firearm is a Mossberg 185K-A 20 gauge bolt action that I was presented on my 16th birthday.

    The first one I bought myself, if you don't count the Pietta 1851 Confederate Navy 44 caliber black powder revolver, is a Remington 700 ADL stainless synthetic chambered in 30-06.

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  • dreher

    Oh yeah!! My great aunt gave me a Winchester 1890, 22 WRF that her cheap husband had rebarreled with a model 61 22 LR barrel because he didn't want to pay the price of the WRFs.

    Since I learned to shoot with a pump gun, since muscle memory is a real thing, I can work a pump gun, 22 or 12 gauge in my sleep!!!

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  • austin20

    I still have my first ever. Winchester 190, Santa brought one for me and one for my brother. I was 8 or 9 years old

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  • Farmall ihc

    yup , savage 20 gauge single shot

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  • Ditch-Runner

    my first gun is a ithica single 66 in 410 ga my dad bought it off a coworker for eight dollars said he needed gas money

    remember 8 dollars back then was two or three hours of pay . ..

    I think he bought it to resell as he would buy single shot shotguns for about 8 to 10 dollars and sell them for about 12 to $ 20 for a real nice one at that time not often but I remember him doing it a few and bragging to his buddies about making couple dollars. at the time it was a huge win for him.

    any way I laid clams on the shotgun , I was about 7 yrs old and I think he felt bad about selling it and let me keep it 😍

    I still have it of course, looks like this one


    I will say it been shot about 4 or 5 times in the almost 60 yrs I have had it .

    1st gun I bought my self was a chep 22 lr dressed to resemble a AR rifle really not even close other that the general shape came from wester auto some odd ball brand looked like this

    I think it was 59 or 69 dollars


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  • KL

    I still shoot my first gun on a regular basis. Remington 550, baybee!

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  • He Dog

    Nope, I sold the first I was given and still have the first I bought. Rem 700 7mm Rem Mag.

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  • forgemonkey

    Clothespin pistol with the fire department on standby ,,,,,,,, 😁



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  • Grasshopper

    That's like asking if I still have my first girlfriend in my world. 😜

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  • susie

    Remington 16 gauge. Yep.

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  • Lady Rae

    Remington 1100 12g and yes I have it. I bought it on layaway for 400.00

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  • Gunnut358

    Marlin Little Buckaroo. Got it on my 3rd or 4th birthday. Still wears an old Tasco 4x15mm scope.

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  • NeoBlackdog

    A Savage 220L-E 12 gauge single shot. Got it for Christmas in 1972. It's in the safe but needs a lot of work to get it back in working order.

    First gun I ever shot is a Winchester Model 72. It too, is down in the safe and gets exercised regularly when the ground squirrels are out.

    Thanks, Dad!

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  • KenK/84Bravo

    1st gun I ever bought myself, was a Savage 24 .22mag over a 20ga. My favorite hunting at the time was ground hog hunting. (As well as squirrel and rabbit.) After a few years (while working the night shift at a tobacco warehouse unloading trucks w/hand tied filled baskets.) I needed/wanted a Deer Rifle. Pug needed/wanted a squirrel/rabbit gun.

    He traded his Grandfathers model 94 (1952) in .30.30 for my Savage. Although I miss the Savage 24, I still have the model 94 w/beautiful furniture. Pretty sure it's worth more than the Savage right now. Although I have seen a few Savage 24's approach the $1K range. (Nice ones do not go inexpensive any more.)

    I scratched that 24 itch and bought a very nice Savage 24V (deluxe) w/a .30.30 over 20 ga. From Select-Fire. (AQH) Gets a Head's Up, if I ever decide to sell it. (Unlikely) Mounted a Simmons Pro, Diamond reticle Shotgun scope to it. It's Purty. 👍😁

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  • wolfpack

    An Ithaca Super Single 66 in 410 that my father bought me when I was six. Yes I still have it and it will be passed down to my son and grandson.

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  • Oakie

    I actually have my first daisy BB gun and first single shot pistol that my dad gave me too. Will post pictures later.

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  • Frogdog

    Stevens 24 22/410. Granddaddy gave it to me when I was 12. Not sure all the history on it, but I know at one point it was stolen, and a murder committed with it. Police returned it, and the markings are still on it from Charlotte Courthouse, VA.

    Not a looker, but a great shooter! And, to me, the multi layers of “Blue” paint really make the finish on that plastic stock pop! Haha!

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  • kannoneer
    Ditch-Runner: 30054646399515/comments/30054648395419

    my first gun is a ithica single 66 in 410 ga my dad bought it off a coworker for eight dollars said he needed gas money

    remember 8 dollars back then was two or three hours of pay . ..

    I think he bought it to resell as he would buy single shot shotguns for about 8 to 10 dollars and sell them for about 12 to $ 20 for a real nice one at that time not often but I remember him doing it a few and bragging to his buddies about making couple dollars. at the time it was a huge win for him.

    any way I laid clams on the shotgun , I was about 7 yrs old and I think he felt bad about selling it and let me keep it 😍

    I still have it of course, looks like this one

    https://images.gunsinternational.com/listings_sub/acc_106916/gi_101645945/Ithaca-Model-66-Super-Single-410_101645945_106916_B0114D37074383E9.JPG

    I will say it been shot about 4 or 5 times in the almost 60 yrs I have had it .

    1st gun I bought my self was a chep 22 lr dressed to resemble a AR rifle really not even close other that the general shape came from wester auto some odd ball brand looked like this

    I think it was 59 or 69 dollars

    https://www.gunlistings.org/uploads/16823_20100223200646_3.jpg

    I have a magazine for that gun. I got it in with a bunch of others and I didn't know what it went to. Just by the look I figured an AR type gun.

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  • waltermoe

    My first gun. Age 4 years old in 1954

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  • Hwallbanger
    @...: https://forums.gunbroker.com/discussion/1913143/my-very-first-gun-pictures

    This is my very first gun, that my dad bought me when I was five. Sears and Roebuck 22 rifle, youth model. I cannot wait to pass this down to my first grandchild someday. Do you still have your first firearm??? Oakie

    https://us.v-cdn.net/6031683/uploads/E6JEZU7APXGL/first1.jpg

    https://us.v-cdn.net/6031683/uploads/HW8L0H54IPMT/first.jpg

    The first gun I ever shot 70 tears belonged to my Grandpa ,after he died an uncle pawned it for $11,he let me get it out of Pawn I still have it .


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  • Oakie
    waltermoe: 30054646399515/comments/30054673303707

    https://us.v-cdn.net/6031683/uploads/F2WRCDR4UW17/img-1374.jpeg

    My first gun. Age 4 years old in 1954

    Now that is a cool picture!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  • Ditch-Runner
    kannoneer: 30054646399515/comments/30054658387099

    https://forums.gunbroker.com/discussion/comment/11414989#Comment_11414989

    I have a magazine for that gun. I got it in with a bunch of others and I didn't know what it went to. Just by the look I figured an AR type gun.

    they also made a 22 semi auto with out the dress up kit , I found out some years later the magazine is the same it just does not have the "box " fake magazine body pinned to it.

    I was 16 yrs old when I bought it with my first job and within the first few months. of working .

    I knew the Family who had the western auto franchise? ( great people and a lot of stories but later on ) they let me pay I think it was $10..00 a week then my dad signed for it when I picked it up . they always had about 4 to 8 guns in a small gun glass front cabinet like was common in most house's back then to show off your guns

    it just caught my eye as being different and only seeing a AR on Tv I had nothing to compare it too

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  • Frogdog

    I forgot these. Guess they pre-dated my Stevens. Sure felt “real” to me!

    Circa 1980 or so….


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  • William81

    5th Birthday 1963...... My first Colts 😜


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  • grdad45

    Marlin Golden 39A "Mountie" I got when I was 15. Still have it, and keep it loaded with 22 Shorts for yard varmints. Dang! That was 63 years ago!

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  • roenm38

    Model 41 Sears single shot bolt 22. Christmas gift when I was 12. Added two more bolts to the Sears collection.


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  • elubsme

    The radio antennas from a 50's automobile and a cap gun made a fairly easy to make first pistol.

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