What was the first firearm you ever shot?

[Alan]

I am curious to hear everyone’s stories, what was the very first firearm you ever shot and how did it go?

 

[bronko22000]

7 yrs old a Win model 70 30-06. As I recall it hurt like heck but I was excited. That was 65 years ago and I still remember.

 

[AveragEd]

Mine was my father's .38 Special Colt Official Police that the Pennsylvania State Police armorer built from parts for him, changing the four-inch barrel for a six-inch in the process. I was about seven years old and thought it kicked like a mule. I remember holding it about a foot under the 25-yard target, thinking the bullet might strike the target as the gun recoiled upward.

Ed

 

[Alan]

7 yrs old a Win model 70 30-06. As I recall it hurt like heck but I was excited. That was 65 years ago and I still remember.

That’s a heck of a first gun for a 7-year-old!

 

[Alan]

Mine was my father's .38 Special Colt Official Police that the Pennsylvania State Police armorer built from parts for him, changing the four-inch barrel for a six-inch in the process. I was about seven years old and thought it kicked like a mule. I remember holding it about a foot under the 25-yard target, thinking the bullet might strike the target as the gun recoiled upward.

Ed

Shooting a customized Colt at seven must’ve been wild. I can just picture you aiming low, anticipating that big recoil jump

 

[Brick]

Mine was a Winchester Model 67, single shot cal. .22 LR, that was already old when my Dad started me with it when I was 5. We used to go to the State Hospital dump and shoot rats and of course cans and bottles. BTW I am now 79 and still have the rifle and both my kids and my wife learned how to shoot with it!

 

[VisionX]

My first was a .22 rifle and honestly what hooked me into shooting.

 

[CoalCrackerAl]

My dads 22.

 

[swampfox]

Grandfathers .22 rimfire that my uncle kept in the old barn. Was rusty and you could slip an unfired round into the muzzle up to the rim. His old Model 12 12 ga and Rem 141 .30 Rem were in similar condition.

 

[Mad Irish Jack]

I was an 11 yo Tenderfoot, Boy Scout at our local Council summer camp. I shot .22 cal. shorts on a 25 foot range. Also hit 3 for 3 on .22 cal clay birds. I feel in love with it, but my mother fought my Dad and she won. No guns in the house. My next was at a college friends on the family farm in NE. Targets with rifles, shotgun clays and hunted birds all season.

 

[KevininPa]

Remington 77

 

[tdoyka]

My dad's RIP Mossberg m500 in 12 GA when I was 11 yo. A few weeks later, he bought me a Savage m67 in 20 ga. He bought it new in 1983 and it was a piece of junk. At the time (we didn't know), Savage was in doldrums. It would be like a early Remington/Marlin lever action. I hunted with it for a couple of years and I bought a Mossberg m500 in 12ga that my oldest son now has.

My dad RIP bought a ticket of a gun show and he got a Savage m110 in 30-06 (1989). He traded it for a TC Contender with a 14" muzzle brake in 7-30 Waters about 4 or 5 years later.

I had a Savage m116 in '06 and another m112 in 223 Remington. I liked them both, but I sold them. I then bought my uncles m110 in 270, but I sold it too. I bought another Savage Axis in 243 for my son's graduation. He still has it.

 

[jeffrefrig]

My dad's .22Rifle. I'm not sure to this day what brand it was/is, but I think a Remington, scoped single shot. When ya load a cartridge and close the action, there was a plunger thing that ya pulled out that released when you pull the trigger, like a revo. hammer. That and the Marlin .22 rifle I have were mine to use up at our cottage in Crawford Co. Dad could pluck a ground hog at 75 yards (scope was sighted in for that distance) right in the head. I was around 10 when he taught me shotgun shooting. We found a bunch of 78 records and made good use of them.

 

[FritzHlzr]

Red Rider is first trigger I pulled, the first real gun was my grandfathers Sheridan pellet rifle, that rifle was used by him and then 2 uncles before me, I couldn't estimate the number of starlings and pigeons taken with that rifle and it still hangs in my garage and fired regularly and accurately. If fire is required I had an uncle that trained me on his 22 rifle, can't remember the model or make, and a browning target pistol, I was probably about 8.