First gun you ever shot

[Kevinr20]

The first gun I ever shot was an IMI Baby Eagle 9mm when I was 17.

First rifle was my Ruger 10/22 that i still have.

What gun did you shoot first?


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[aplcr0331]

M16A2; Marine Corps Boot Camp, Edson Range Camp Pendleton, CA.

[Mendoman]

Winchester model 77 mag fed .22. Its my fathers and he still uses it to kill squirrels at 78 years old. I will get it someday when he passes on or gives up on hunting.

[raven11]

M16A2 Air Force Basic Training

[robin303]

Remington Nylon 66 bought by greenstamps back in the 60's. I was about 12.

[frizz]

Shot-out police revolver, .38SP w/4-inch barrel.

[GlockinNJ]

There was another thread on this a while back. My dad took me plinking in the woods with his bolt action .22, not sure which make/model. I was probably 12 at the time.

I loved the smell of gun powder from that moment.

[Meanie5470]

single shot bolt action Springfield .22 when I was like 8. I recently got $200 for it at a gun buy back in Newark LOL. Def hurt to see it go but truth is I was never gonna shoot it again and Id DEF never get over 50 bucks for it in real life lol. Thanks liberal America!

[Bruce M]

A single shot bolt action .22 with my Dad. Not sure of the brand.

[Bill Powell]

I was about four, and the gun was an 12 ga side by side with open hammers. The right barrel had been shot so much that the end of the barrel was sharp enough to cut you.

[Tim151515]

an m16 on the zeroing range in basic training.

[Roering]

BB Gun in my friends backyard. Looked like an M-16.

[Bruce M]

Someone - Please turn on the BAC-Light? I wanna hear about someone's first gun being something like a Holland and Holland .22 Hornet...

[wrangler_dave9]

12g over/under shotgun, 30-06, .308, AR-15 (S&W, retired cop bought it from his department), Glock 27.

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[DeuceRooster]

Remington Apache .22 (Green nylon stock) when I was about 10. Next was an M1 Carbine when I was 12. The rest is history!

[Glock20 10mm]

Uncle Deeks Ruger .22LR

[Tango 1Zero]

I was about 7? Gun was a 22 Wards pump and I still have it.

[Jack_Pine]

1916 Savage octagon barrel 22 lR.... grandfathers which I now have.

[The Machinist]

Remington 870 when I was 18 or 19. :cool:

[series1811]

A Winchester .22 semi-auto, when I was six years old. I bet I shot 10,000 rounds of .22 out of that gun growing up. My brother still has it.

[Gun Shark]

Sig P226 9mm


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[PPinesRon]

Colt 1911 at 8 years old.

[8-Ball]

A .22 of some sort but I was too young to remember. I do remember the first time I shot a shotgun because I still have the scar from it. It was a break barrel .410 and I wasn't big enough to shoulder it so I stuck it under my armpit with my face too close to the hammer.

Ouch! Good memories.

[sheriff733]

Marlin .22 semi-auto rifle I believe.

[gigab1te]

Winchester model 69

[JDO]

A 9 shot .22 revolver when I was REALLY REALLY young, I forget the make of it I know there not in business anymore and I would probably know it if I heard it. The gun is still in the kitchen ill go look later if I remember.


Other then that I never shot anything besides a .22 rifle at my great grandmothers/aunts a few years back. Until January of this year at one of my uncles let me shoot his s&w 9mm, and then February I bought my Glock and I'm already up to 5 guns with a 6th one on the way. Plus my parents have never really been into guns they only own two the 9 shot .22 and a .357 sig my dad bought off a neighbor lol


Main reason I never got a gun sooner is I've really just got to an appropriate age where I fell responsible enough. I've always liked them can't wait to become 21 and get my ccw!!!!

[byf43]

Single shot .22 lr that was my Dad's, when he was a kid.

His brother stole it (literally) from my Dad, when I was a kid!
:steamed:

[Ironbar]

What gun did you shoot first?


A JC Higgins Model 20 pump action 12ga shotgun. It was my father's shotgun, and when he passed it came to me. :snoopy:

[PhotoFeller]

A Winchester model 67 single shot .22 at age 10 or 11. This was my first gun, and it was a Christmas gift from an uncle. Sure wish I had it back or could find one like it.

[KalashniKEV]

A single shot bolt action .22 with my Dad. Not sure of the brand.

Same here. I think mine was some kind of generic Sears catalog type gun, at Boy Scout Summer Camp in the Adirondacks.

I would LOVE to have that gun today. It had a yellowish stock with well worn checkering, and lots of "character" to the finish.

[ranger88]

M16A1 during Infantry Basic Training at Ft. Benning, GA. Sand Hilton!!!

[OctoberRust]

mossberg 88 maverick. I don't remember the .22s we were shooting that day. It was all in the same day though.

[jbailey8]

M16A1 during Infantry Basic Training at Ft. Benning, GA. Sand Hilton!!!


Been there, done that! That's the first gun I remember the type and caliber, but I did shoot a rifle as a kid. I just don't remember who made it or the caliber, I just remember my dad saying that it was gonna hurt my shoulder. Lol

[Steve0853]

Savage Model 87 .22 sometime around 1962. Also a single barrel 12 gauge on the same day.

[Magnus2131]

My dads 22 revolver back in the early 70's

[Lee Cabana]

A .22 rifle at Boy Scout camp in 1967.

[Glockdude1]

A 1964 vintage Ruger .22 Bearcat. My dad gave it to me just last year so my sons can learn to shoot with it as well.

:cool:

[Glockaround the Clock]

Winchester 22 rifle 11 years old.

[Bren]

The first gun I ever shot was an IMI Baby Eagle 9mm when I was 17.

First rifle was my Ruger 10/22 that i still have.

What gun did you shoot first?


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I don't really remember, but it would have been a .22 of some kind, probably when I was old enough to walk. The earliest I can specifically remember is shooting a lever-action Winchester .22 when I was 5 or 6. The first gun I ever owned was a stevens bolt action .22 when I was 8. Compared to my nephew, I was a late bloomer - he was hunting and had killed his first turkey when he was 4. By 10 or 11 he had a compound bow a couple of rifles and a shotgun and was saving for a new Bennelli.

[MtBaldy]

My father's 12 gauge Browining Automatic duck gun when I was 8 or so. It knocked me on my but but I got up and shot it again and destroyed the 5 gallon bucket of water about 15 feet away. The first gun I ever bought for myself was a S&W model 64 stainless steel .38 special revolver.

[Hicksville Kid]

I was about 7 or 8 in the late 1940s and a friend had a rolling block .22. I have no idea the make or model. We took it out in the woods and shot at playing cards.

[MikeNH]

Other than BB guns in scouts the first time I shot a gun was at a basic pistol class I took at Sig Academy. P229 in 9mm but I also stayed after the class and the instructor let me shoot his personal P220. This was probably 2006 or maybe early 2007.

[skinny99]

A Marlin tube fed Semi-Auto 22LR. It is my dads and he still has it. I have no idea how many rounds that gun has fired. I know the summer I turned 10 he let me shoot it a bunch. One day me and my buddy shot 2000 rounds through it. We would buy those tubs of a 1000 at the Walmart and burn through em.

First gun I ever owned was a Remington 11-48 12 gauge. My neighbor sold it to me for $50 and moving his new refrigerator into his house. I was 16. Still have that gun too.

[GreenDrake]

Walther PPK/S, still have the scar on the top of my thumb from the slide. Didn't know how to shoot it, draped my left thumb over the right and whammo, good times.

[janice6]

Winchester Model 74 in .22 short.

Got it from my father (it was used) when I was just starting grade school.

I gave it to my son a couple of years ago. He is going to teach his daughter to shoot with it. I love that gun.

Second was a Winchester Model 1886 in .33 caliber. Wonderful to shoot, a mechanical marvel to operate.

[VinnieD]

When I was 7 my Dad gave me a single barrel break action .410 shotgun. I loved that gun, went duck hunting with it a few times, slew many a water moccasin with it too. I miss that gun. I've been trying to fin one just for nostalgia's sake. These days I prefer 12 gauge, but I still have a soft spot for the .410 round.

[Z71bill]

Cap gun - photo dated 1960 which makes me about 2. I think I may have been raised in a pro gun enviornment. :whistling:

http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r128/z71bill/gun%20pics/GrandpaBillBillElaineXmas1958.jpg

First "machine" gun was a stick/ branch off a tree.

First BB gun I was 5

First real gun (promised my grandfather I wouldn't tell my mom) was a .22 bolt action rifle - was shooting my BB gun and gramps said try this one :supergrin:- I must have been 6.

[nam02G]

I think the first non-BB gun I shot was my Dad's Leatherneck .22 semi-auto. He still has it and it's still in great condition.

[Rotn1]

As a kid I had a .177 Gamo air rifle and a .177 BSA Air Pistol.
First real firearm was a .44 Mag through a Colt Anaconda.

[el_jewapo]

My dad's bolt action Mossberg 20 gauge. First time was when I was 4 or 5, he held it and let me pull the trigger. I shot it solo when I was 7 or 8, knocked me back a few steps. I haven't shot it in a while, but I think it kicks about like my 12 gauge.

This isn't his, just looks like it.
http://picturearchive.gunauction.com/5656153121/9427818/mossberg%20041.jpg_thumbnail1.jpg

[jtmac]

I don't remember the first gun I shot. It was mighty early in life, though. I occasionally wonder if the tinnitus I suffered from was due to my dad taking me shooting without hearing protection.

The first gun I remember shooting was an AK-47. My dad was showing it off to my grandfather and uncles when I wandered out and asked if I could try shooting it. I had to be over 5 years old but nowhere near 10, but I turned down my dad's offer to help and managed to shoulder it by myself.

I fired one shot, then looked downrange at the target. "Bullseye!"

"No, son, you missed the paper."

I ran out to pick the target up, carrying the rifle with me. They put on their patient looks as I walked back to show them the fresh new hole in the bullseye, right in between all the holes they'd shot.

"Give me that!" my dad said as he grabbed the rifle out of my hands.

I haven't held an AK since.

[fnfalman]

The first gun I ever shot was an M16 in Basic Training. Not A1, not A2 but plain jane M16.

[Annoyedgrunt]

A .22 semi-auto rifle, of some sort. I was 12, and don't remember what it was.

I still remember being nervous about the massive recoil that I thought this rifle would give (I was 12, remember) and when I finally dropped the hammer, I was like wow, that's it? Hey, this is fun, now! :supergrin:

[costanza187]

I don't have any idea what brand it was...but the first for me was some type of .22 rifle.

[deputy tom]

My first experience with a real gun was a .22 bolt action rifle owned by a camping friend of our family. He took all of the kids to the sawmill behind our camp-grounds and we all had a great time. Thank you Mr.Thornton for introducing me to a lifetime of shooting sports. tom.:cool:

[Heckler&Koch]

Ruger .44 magnum felt like fouling off a baseball with an aluminum bat.

[Huaco Kid]

While tramping through the woods with my best friend, with our .22's, when we were in elementary school, we came across his big brother and his drunken buddies. The big kids had a 10 gauge shotgun.

They yelled at us. They called us names. They challenged my friend to shoot the shotgun at a bucket about 30 feet away. He did. It blew him on his ass, ten foot back. They called him gay names.

Then they looked at me. They yelled at me. They called me names.

I had no choice.

BLAMMM!!

I landed ten foot back. They called me gay names.

Curses on those older, big, drunken kids in the woods!

(I grew up right. Every kid in America should have to do that, as a right of passage.)

((After reading this post again, I realized if we HAD .22's, then the shotgun wasn't my first gun. Therefore, it must be my Daisy spring-cock BB gun. It never knocked anyone anywhere. If you ran out of BB's, you could jam the muzzle in the dirt and shoot your friend with a wad of mud.))

[KeithS]

.410 Mossberg shotgun, rabbit hunting when I was about 9 years old (1950s). I still have it.

[Caver 60]

My father had a semiautomatic 22 short, Remington rifle. It was commonly called a 'gallery rifle' since it was used extensively in shooting galleries.

I was very young, probably 5 or so. My father would kneel behind me and help support the rifle while I was pulling the trigger.

My younger brother now has the rifle. And (of course) he also learned to shoot while using that rifle.

My father was a deadly shot with that rifle.

Of course I later graduated to larger firearms and at age 12 I kept a loaded 12 gage shotgun sitting at the foot of my bed, and I knew how to use it.

[crazycooter91]

red rider bb gun...I didn't shoot my eye out lol

[RGbiker]

First handgun I shot was a blank pistol that I drilled out in HS machine shop to use .22short ammo. Shop instructor thought I did a good job. (this was 1956)

First rifle I shot was a M1 Garand Uncle Sam loaned to me a year later at Ft. Knox basic training.

Imagine a 17 year old with an M1 Garand and cases and cases and cases of 30.06 ammo. No ear protection at that time.

I was a happy boy.....going deaf but happy.

[M&P Shooter]

In real life it was a Marlin 22lr but on the internet it was when I was a 6' 2" S.E.A.L. and that was a bolt action 50BMG as I was the team sniper nick named Zombie eyes:whistling:

[bigmac85]

I first shot this old western auto supply model 120 when i was 6 years old. The darn thing just doesn't quit.

[Grabbrass]

Sears & Roebuck bolt-action 12-gauge.

[Batesmotel]

Browning .22 semi auto High Grade. It was my scoutmasters.

[maximus1079]

A Winchester 30/30 lever action. LOVED it! :) Got me hooked!

[M24C]

Some single shot bolt action 22 rifle at Boy Scout camp, around 13 to 14 years old. I remember trying spend all my extra time and money shooting at camp. My parents didn't have any guns. Not much has changed I still spend allot of my spare time and money shooting. :D

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[nosuchagency]

savage single-shot 20 gauge @ an empty bleach bottle when i was about 11 or so.

[racer11]

Winchester Mod 63 semi auto at the age of around 5yrs.

58 years later (today) the gun sits in my safe and I still shoot it.

[jeager]

Bolt action .22 at Scout Camp when I was 11.

[njl]

I can't remember if it was a single shot .22lr rifle or a .22lr handgun. Regardless, I'm fortunate enough to now own all three of what might have been the first firearms I shot.

[Jbar4Ranch]

I'm not really sure... either a Savage M24 .22 WMR over .410 or a Remington model 12 .22 pump, and it would have been sometime in the early 60's. They were both passed on to me, and I still have them.

[Trew2Life]

M16A1 U.S. Army Basic Training, Ft. Jackson, S.C.

[tous]

High Standard Model HD that my father ( :angel: ) bought just after he returned from the war. I was about 8 years old.

http://i715.photobucket.com/albums/ww151/touslab/HDMilitaryleft.jpg

Like others here, I am blessed to own that pistol today.
It's going to my nephew when I pass on.

[filthy infidel]

Replied to this kind of post last time. First was a Colt 1911, marked property of the United States of America with my dad. I was eight ish, and we never ****ed with the guns in the house growing up. We knew where they were, right next to the ammunition. Having used them, we respected them.

[Mrs.Cicero]

My uncle's Beretta 92, I think. The same uncle that took me for my first motorcycle ride. I was maybe 12 or 13. My mother was not happy with my dad or his brother. LOL. Miss you, Uncle Bob. RIP.

Mrs.Cicero

[randrew379]

.22 rifle. I was five or six and Dad comes home from squirrel hunting. I was in the bedroom which I shared with my brother; my dad stored his guns and ammo in our closet. He set the gun on its butt and said, "Hold this."Is it loaded" I asked.
"No."


BOOM!

This is the same man who decided to take his new .44mag Redhawk to the toilet with him, after "unloading",of course. So, he was admiring his new revolver while doing what he does best: BOOM! Through two walls and out the front door frame.

I'm really lucky to be alive.

[stevemc]

.22 with my father in Michigan. Shot the caps off water jugs. Some of the best memories.

[Ace90]

Savage single shot .410 that I got for Christmas when I was 12 then a savage mkll that I received the following year.

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[BEANCOUNTER]

Winchester .22 (pump action, probably a model 1906).

I was ~8 years old. The rifle was one of about 8 chained to the shooting gallery at Ocean View Amusement Park. The gallery had both stationary and moving targets (ducks). I'm not too proud of this, but no targets were harmed from the discharge of my weapon.

[IndyGunFreak]

Ruger P90. I have no idea why I chose that gun as my first one to shoot.. The guy who was teaching me had a myriad of options in front of me, but for some reason it just called to me.

IGF

[tous]

Ruger P90. I have no idea why I chose that gun as my first one to shoot.. The guy who was teaching me had a myriad of options in front of me, but for some reason it just called to me.

IGF

Good choice, but the grip is a handful for a young'un, no?

:wavey:

<--- loves my P90

[Tx-SIG229]

M16A1 during Infantry Basic Training at Ft. Benning, GA. Sand Hilton!!!
1st time ppk. 2nd time this :supergrin:

[Hamilton Burger]

Shot several guns that day. Can't remember for sure which was the first... Either a S&W 19, 29, or a FA .44 but I liked them all.

[deadmanglocking]

Savage .22 rifle when I was around 7. It was my great grandfather's and we still have it.

Edit. Sorry, it was a mossberg


The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles.

[Dubble-Tapper]

first pistol, a Ruger Blackhawk shooting .38 loads... i was about 14

first rifle, a winchester lever action 30-30 at 14 yrs

shotgun, a benelli m1s90 at 13 yrs

i vividly remember all of these first encounters with real guns.

[Lee-online]

Rifle, M16A2
Pistol, M9
Belt fed, M60

All at basic in Ft Knox.

[gruntmedik]

Marlin Glenfield Model 60.

[countrygun]

I have it right here. A Remington bolt .22 that has been in the family for 3 generations. It was the "ranch" .22 when my Dad was a kid. It has a long history and I could probably write a pretty good short story about it.

[Kamo]

Glock 19, gen 3 while visiting my brother in the free state of Virginia. Too bad I had to leave and then apply for a license to do the same thing when I got home :(

[powderhead]

Remington 512