What was your first firearm?

Smith and Wesson Model 586, 4” barrel. Bought it used for myself on my 21st birthday back in 1993 for $350. Reloaded ammo at a friend’s house and shot it almost every other week.

 

10/22 TD and a G19 -- and they're probably still my two favorites.

 

10/22

 

Remington 710 in 30-06. Great rifle and it was dead on. Had a blast with it out in the so cal desert!

Sold in when got out of the military and moved from Cali to Pa many years ago and found it hard to find a long range shooting range that didn’t suck.

 

Bought myself at CZ-75 SP-01 at 25.

 

Springfield XD45

 

Remington 121 Fieldmaster ...22 S/L/LR. Passed down from my dad. Pump action .22s are a hoot!

 

Smith & Wesson Model 59 9mm
Got it back in 1983. Still have it.

 

Ithaca Mod 66 super single 20ga. ~1980. A high school buddy of mine would argue with me that there was no such thing as a lever action shotgun. I did insist that it wasn't lever action and was lever break action. At that time I had no easy way of taking pictures and it took ~6mths until he saw it and STHU. I never knew until later that there actually was a lever action shotgun produced in the 1800s.

 

Winchester model 37 single shot 410... Still got it and it is absolutely spotless mint. Pops was a collector and a hunter so I was raised to keep it nice.

 

Remington 870

 

Springfield XD40

 

Browning HiPower

 

M16A1 in Basic Training... got myself a Ruger 10/22 when I got home, though.

 

I was given a 12ga 870 for christmas when I was 12 or 13.

First gun I purchased myself was a 1933 hex reciever mosin shortly after I turned 18.

 

Still have it? If so, hold on to it. I bought a hex tula 91/30 that I later sold. They are nice.

 

Yup still have it. Don't shoot it too much, but I'll take it to the range every once in a while.

 

Nice. Mosins are fun to shoot. Worst part is cleaning after shooting with the corrosive surplus ammo. Also, not too crazy about the large bolt looking back at me in the face when aiming, but the design has held up over a long time.

 

Ithaca Model 37 Featherweight in 20 gauge (used) for Christmas before my 12th birthday - 1968.

Wish I still had it......loaned to my old fire chief's nephew years ago. He used it, never cleaned it and put it away WET. When he gave it back to me, it was a rusted hunk, I said NO WAY and made him buy it from me.

 

First gun was a Remington Target Master .22 bolt action rifle. A friend of my Dad's gave it to me when I was 11 years old, along with a well-used, but still nice, USMC Kabar knife. At that age, I didn't realize what I had. I kept the rifle and knife until I was in my 40's. The knife had been beat to hell over the years, tip broken, cap on the grip broken off, blade corroded. I paid the rifle forward to my nephew, who was ring-bearer at my wedding, he still has it.

Not until I was an adult, and after I'd ruined the Kabar, that I learned my Dad's friend had been at Guadalcanal with that knife. He'd never talked about his war service.