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My first gun was a Winchester Model 69A that I received for Christmas 1957. The first rifle I paid for was either a Model 1903A3 Springfield that I got from the DCM in 1958 for $15.00 or a Remington Rolling Block in 7mm Mauser that I purchased mail order from Golden State Arms for $8.99 plus shipping.
I still have both. Unfortunately, I "sporterized" the 1903A3.
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$37.95.. Winch. M37 in .410.. And yeah, that tells you I'm old..
Ex- USN (SS) '66-'69 Pro-Constitution. LET'S GO BRANDON!!!
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First "gun" $5.54 for a Red Ryder via Sears and Roebuck in 1948. First shotgun was a Christmas gift. Winchester M24 in 16ga 1950 still have it. First rifle. Win M70 fwt 270 that I paid $94.50 wholesale through the local general store. 1954 still have that one too.
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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. You are indeed an "astute horse-trader". You managed to lose $1 plus an investment in ammunition. Being the lousy horse-trader I am, I probably would have lost even more!
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Since my folks wouldn't even let me have a BB gun growing up, I didn't get my first until the week I moved out to go to college. I bought a Remington 700 ADL (wood stock) in .270 and put a Redfield Partner scope on it. Paid $325 for the rifle and $40 or so for the scope.
Seems like I had 5 guns or so by the end of that first year. Boy was my mother pissed. Don't have the .270 anymore as I gave it to my best friend who was needing a hunting rifle.
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same." - Ronald Reagan
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H&S imports .22 revolver for $80. 1989
If you love someone set them free If they come back no one else liked them Set them free again
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Winchester 9422XTR, NIB, $215 in 1981, still have it. Back then that took a good chunk of the paper route money I was earning and my dad had to make the actual purchase since I was still a youngster at the time.
"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence". John Adams
"A dishonest man can always be trusted to be dishonest". Captain Jack Sparrow
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Remington model 700 in .270 for $99 (new). I'd been reading a lot of JOC articles. Got a scope and mounts and rings at a Herter's store for $30.
He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
- Albert Einstein
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1976- Remington 870 Wingmaster w/ vent rib- 3" magnum = $180.00 NIB
Gonna take it hunting today!!
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This will be my last post! Flave 1/3/21
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the first one I bought myself, a Winchester 37a in 16ga. $65 in 1975. My first centerfire rifle was a Remington 788 in 308.
When I was in the navy my brother borrowed that shotgun for a freind of his. He left it leaning against the truck as he backed out of te driveway. He ran over the muzzle making it an oval. I had it ciu off and rifle sights installed, killed a few deer with that shotgun.
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The older I become the more I am convinced that the voice of honor in a man's heart is the voice of GOD.
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$40 for a Davis 16ga "certified" shotgun.
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My first ones were gifts too. A Marlin 12 gauge pump from my Uncle, a Remington model 12, 22 rf from my Grandma, a model 270 Winchester .22 pump from Mom and Dad and a Browning 2000 12 gauge from Mom and Dad as well. Still have the first two. The first gun I bought was a model 788 Remington in 308. It was under $200 with tax at TG&Y. Came with a 4x Tasco already mounted and iron sights packed in the box. I took my first Whitetail with it. My first handgun was a 949 H&R .22 from a local hardware store, now long gone. I think it cost less than $150, all-told.
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paid 175 for an ithaca 37 corn cob 16 ga
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I LOVE MY COUNTRY IT'S THE GOV'T I FEAR
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Parker-Hale Super..243 $150 in 1968
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$O,Grandfather handed over a model 99 .300 Savage,for deer hunting the swamps just south of Houghton lake in north central Michigan.
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Mine was a Cooey, can't remember the model # though it's still in the safe. It is a tube feed, bolt action, I seem to recal is was around 12 or 14 dollars in 1969. Bought it with money saved up off my paper route.
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1971, i was 13 years old and working at a deep rock service station. there were a couple other guys from school working there. they had drivers licenses and were all about buying cars.
i put a 700 bdl .17 rem on layaway at the woolworth store in town... when it was all paid off for ~$175 i brought it home with a hardcase, 2 boxes of ammo and a weaver k4 mounted up on it...
i was still working there when i was 16 and bought my 67 fairlane the week before i took my drivers test...
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Not my first gun, but the first I paid for ... Remington 700 BDL in .308 new $33 in 1973. I worked at a West Coast chain in college and we got stuff at cost +10%. This one had been in the store's inventory since 1962 with an original cost of $30.
Dave Sticks and stones may break my bones ... but hollow-points expand on impact.
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Same as most, my first guns were gifts. But the first gun I bought on my own was after watching Dirty Harry. I tried to find a SW29, yeah right! So I settled for a SBH 7 1/2" barrel. Don't remember what I paid for it; in '72 I think.
"How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
Sherlock Holmes
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Bought a pre-mil Savage 99-F .308 in 1975 for $165 and killed my first buck with it that fall.Gun's gone,but I still have the receipt.
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