Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire How much did you pay for your first gun?

First one as a gift.. Sears lever action .22 LR $15 in mid 60's. First ones I ever bought were in the mid 70's.. Rem 870 Wingmaster $125 and at the same time a Rem 742 in .308 for $150.

I think my Marlin 25 bolt action .22 cost ~$79 from Montgomery Wards. Nov. 1984. It was given to me as a gift by my parents.

The first gun I ever purchased was a 10/22 w/ a Eaton 50-round drum. $120 from a small sporting goods store in downtown Mesa, AZ. 1985.

Bought a Sheridan 5mm or a Winchester model 270 22 pump. I don't rememberer which was first, about 63 or 4. Sold the prone to jam POS Winchester couple or so years later. Still have the Sheridan, killed a squirrel with it today.
Don't remember what I paid for the 270, gave $27 and change for the Sheridan.

Next was a used Single-six for $30. I guess in todays world it would be illegal for me to own one as young as I was then.

WHOoooo,....1957 ?

All chipped in with my brothers ( older )

a "trapdoor" Springfield,....from "Ye Olde Hunter", ....the funny lookin' cartoon with the hillbilly holding a droopy barreled pidstola.

There was balloon head cases,.....original BP / lead included in that order,...it came by mail.

We coulda' "put our eyes out" or "hurt somebody".

....never happened.

BTW,.....you can reload old .45-70 cases with Match-head primers, and home brewed BP,..........with slugs formulated outta' sinkers ( that's before you learn to recover your spent bullets)

I'm REAL confident that a new generation of kids will glom right onto these monkeyshines,....directly the power goes off.

GTC

August 1969 Win 94 3030. &79.95 at the Base Exchange on Mather AFB. Bear

Model 121 Winchester in 1970 for $21...still have it.

First gun of my own I think dad probably paid $190 for in 1992, remington 870 express youth 20.

First gun with my money was the next year, 1993. Remington 700 adl, 270 winchester, $330 on sale �t Kmart. BDLs were $360, I didn't have the extra $30 and I thought the BDL stock was as ugly then as I do now.

It is a remington pump, I believe it is a 760 field master 22. Dad gave me a deal, "you come up with half, and I will help with the other half." So he let me use his lawnmower and paid for gas the entire summer. Do you think I may have come out ahead on the deal? It did teach me that I need to work extra for the things in life that I want, I had no idea about bills or anything else at that time but it was a good lesson. That christmas I go a tasco 4X scope, and it is still one of the straightest shooting guns I own.

I have to just smile remembering all this good thread.

Spent my first ten years coming up like my Dad wanted me to, Christmas gift, Glenfield .22 bolt.

Stupidly traded it 8 years later for $40 worth of gas money to get home.....didn't have anything else with me I could part with that was worth anything.

My first gun was a M37 Ithaca 20 gauge that my mother paid 94.95 at Sears. This was my Christmas present at 12 years old. The first one I bought was the following summer, using all my grass cutting money. It was an Ithaca X5 Lightning .22 semi. for 49.95. Still have them both in good working order.
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I bought a bolt action 22 from someone for $15.Seems like it was a mossberg.

A bolt action Kessler Westchester 12ga. $35.00 then a Ithaca mdl 49 22lr for $10.00 both are still in the family.

1958 I bought a Winchester 1890 pump rifle in 22 WRF for $5.00. Shells were frightfully expensive and it wasn't long before I had more than the purchase price invested in shells.

Being the astute horse-trader I was I soon sold it to someone for $4.00, and if I remember correctly he shot it about twenty times, all my ammo, before he agreed to buy it.

A 22 Long Rifle, a Remington 550 for $29.00, looked awful good from that day forward.

$219.00 at Mills Fleet and Farm in MN..

444 Marlin.. 1981..

still have it..

It was the early sixties and I had several yards that I mowed. The biggest one paid 4.00$ and the others less and it was hot and I had to push it to wherever I had to mow. I fell in love with a Winchester model 100 in 308 at the local (Fred Robertson's)gun shop and he let me put it in the layaway. Every Saturday, I would take him money I made cutting yards. The price was $120.00 and I think the most I took him at one time was $12.
Finally the day came when I had the last of the money and when I took it to him, he said "What about the tax?". WELL, I didn't know much about that but after some power begging he forgave the sales tax. Then he said "Boy, you got any bullets?". WELL I hadn't thought about that either. Fred was a gruff kinda typical gunshop guy but I guess he felt sorry for me and gave me a box of that 7.62 ball match ammo that the 'Nam snipers used that cost $1.50 a box. I went to a neighbors pond and shot turtles with it. Man would it blow them out of the water! Like a dumbazz, I sold it or traded it years later.

most of my 'first guns' were free, but I remember paying about $75 for a new flat top Ruger .357, $90 for a .44 Mag, and about $150 for my first SP1 AR15.

First 4 were gifts: A Winchester 62 A when I was six, a Winchester M37 .410 AND a Stevens tip-up .22 pistol when I was 8, finally a Winchester '94 in .32 Win Spl at 12 when I shot my first deer with it. Still have the Winnies and my oldest grandson has the Stevens.

Bought my first service revolver, a S&W M&P for 58.00 bucks in 1966.

Not my first but the one that sticks out in my mind was a Ruger Bearcat that I bought new for $37.50.

The first gun I bought for myself was a Ruger Single Six convertible for around 50 bucks in 1971. I took it out to the dump and shot most anything that moved and lots of stuff that didn't for the price of a buck to the old smelly guy who lived in the shack out there. Every 17 year old should have that opportunity.

$125 for a Beretta AL2 20 gauge, mid 80s I think.