What was the first firearm you shot?

[SafariA4]

If I remember right I think it was an M1 Garand.

 

[DeanMk]

Same. That was, let's see....25 years ago?

I WISH!

 

[Groundzero872]

It was crazy hearing about getting expelled from school as my junior high had an indoor gun range and during high school it was normal to see shotguns or hunting rifles in the window gun racks of trucks. My first was a lever action marlin 22.

 

[nwshooter3540]

Browning 22lr lever action. Started everything for me. I hope to have the gun passed down some day. I now own a Henry 45/70 and a 1963 Winchester 30/30. All thanks to the first gun I shot. Man those 30/30s kick like a mule. 45/70 is a dream with 550 subs and a can.

 

[fjackson95]

Did it scare you? What kind of firearm was it? Was it dad that made you do it?

Winchester model 67a boys rifle 25 years ago I still have it!

 

[albin25]

Wwwaaayyyy back in 1965 my Dad bought me my first gun, a CIL 22lr single shot bolt action with manual pull-knob cocking. We practiced/plinked at our cottage in Nortwestern Ontario.
The next year I passed the required Hunter's Safety Course at a range in Winnipeg (and yup, I still have the card that's going to be 60 years old next year)

Years later I found out that Canadian industries Limited's 22lr bolt action was made by Anschutz and my Dad paid $19.88 for it on sale at S.I.R. Sporting Goods.

I wish I still had it but I gave it to a nephew before I immigrated in 1988.

 

[outwest]

My Grandpa taught me to shoot his 22 Colt Woodsman. I was 8 years old.
That was back in 1960. I still have that pistol.

 

[tospol]

BB guns in cub scouts, then .22lr rifles. Neither was all that memorable.

 

[WestcoastWes]

It was either my dad's Browning Challenger or the Browning SA-22. Can't remember exactly but these were the two plinkers we had back in 1975 when I started shooting. I don't remember any story behind the Challenger but the SA22 came from a Vietnam vet. Said he had shot it only two or three times from new. He said he bought it a few months after he got back, then shot it and decided because of his experiences in Vietnam, he "could live the rest of his life without hearing another gun" if it was up to him.

 

[fordor40]

My father bought me a Montgomery Wards Hawthorn 22 single shot Short, Long and Long Rifle for Christmas about 1960. Still in my safe and take it on sage rat hunts for the close ones!! A couple years later he gave me a Marlin 336RC 30-30 for my birthday. Still have it too...

 

[No_Regerts]

Ruger 10/22. Went with dad out to the woods to zero his rifle. Once it was zeroed, he stapled up a clean piece of paper and drew a 2" circle on it with a marker. We went back to the truck and I got to shoot a few rounds into the circle from what was probably about 20 yards. I was hooked!

 

[waveride59]

Some kind of single shot 22 at scout camp. Camp Baldwin
As a gun owner, a Springfield Saint Victor AR10. Still have it and it is a favorite. Super accurate.

 

[noyolk]

A soldier in the German Army, who fought on the Eastern front in ww2, invited me for my first outing firing a weapon. He was a elderly friend of my parents, who also immigrated to the US after the war. He started on the safety side and progressed with detailed instruction. We spent a day shooting the Sears .22 autoloader, and when we were finshed and cleaned up he presented it to me. This was in Southern Commifornia in about 1977 or 1978. I would ride my bike thru my town to get out to the rock pit to shoot on a Saturday morning, with that rifle uncovered, slung across my back.
TAKE A KID SHOOTING WHO'S PARENTS ARE NOT INTERESTED IN GUNS AND GET SOME YOUNG INTERST GOING. It worked for me....
And FJB and cali.

 

[aljames]

If I remember right I think it was an M1 Garand.

What an epic first gun to shoot! Skipped right over all the weak sauce typical first guns like 22's, 410, etc and went right to the greatest battle implement ever devised.

I'm leaning towards my first time being Dad's then new BL-22 lever action 22LR. Thing I remember the most was the smell of the gun powder.

 

[nwslopoke]

M-16 in basic training.

 

[uberguy]

Bought and shot, a Lama 1911 45 ACP, late comer - early 20s. My friends and I used to try hitting the side of a barn, with limited success. Me and the 1911 (other brands) are much better now.

 

[NICKBRUM]

My Dad was certainly teaching me marksmanship with a 10/22 around four or five. 1st center fire was a winchester lever in 30-30. It was either new year eve or 4th of July, I dont fully recall. I'm guessing I was probably 8, that 30 cal gave me a wallop. I loved it.