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An '03 Springfield sometime around '62. Think I paid $12.00 for it. That was a fair amount of lawn-mowing money at the time.

Ninety dollars. Bought in 1969.

A Remington 721 .30-06, Redfield mount & rings, Weaver KV,
and an old leather case.

Mine was the same rifle at about the same time. If I recall it was $39 and I think I paid for half and the other half was a birthday present. Mine was tube fed and my brother got the identical clip fed model. Still have it although I haven't shot it in about 15 years.

Jerry

First one I bought myself was a 10/22 in 1980. On sale at Kmart for $89.99

Prior to that it was hand me downs, in particular a tight choked plastic stocked Montgomery Wards labled 20 gauge single shot. It weighed about 3 lbs and made the recoil on everything else seem pretty tame.

About $150.00 for a new Remington Model 742 in 1967.

In 1956 my dad bought me a JCHiggins pump 12ga for $48.88 at Sears. I was 12yrs old. You could have filled a pickup bed with the all the quail that I shot with that gun until well after I was married.
Life is good.

paid $40 for a nearly new Stevens 311 in 16 gauge with 3 boxes of shells and a cleaning kit in the mid 90's at a garage sale......picked it up and asked how much and to this day i think the guy just thought a kid should have it cause every other gun he had was priced higher after i made the deal on the Stevens....

In the late summer of 1953 I purchased a Winchester Mdl 37 single shot shotgun for $21.55 at Henrikson's Hardware in Molalla, Oregon. I still have it. It accompanies me to deer and elk camp and harvests a fair amount of blue and ruffed grouse in the Blue Mountains.

Small world ... dad got me my first gun Christmas 1962 ... Winchester 37A in 20ga he picked up at the sporting goods store in LaGrande. I also still have that one.

Not counting BB guns and pellet guns ('cause they don't count) - my first "real" paycheck was spent, almost entirely, on my first real gun.

I wanted a Winchester Model 70 in 300 Winchester Magnum (because my Dad used a 30-06) and I found one in one of Vancouver's biggest chain-stores. They had the plain-jane cheapest model of the Model 70 on for $172 - so I bought it. The guy went to wrap the one everyone had handled - and I asked for one fresh-from-the-box, unopened.

When I got home and opened the box - there was a Deluxe Model 70 - in 300 Winchester magnum.

I was a bad boy in in 1972, because I never did say anything about that.

My first was also a Win. mod 37 20ga. Got from a friend of my dad, gave him a $20 dollar bill and $10 bucks in quarters, nickles, and dimes. Looking forward to teaching my daughters to shoot it.

$30 for a single shot 20 gauge, that broke down by pulling back the trigger guard.

The first gun I bought was a Remington 870 Wingmaster with slotted forend and uncheckered buttstock 12 ga modified choke. The year was 1963. I paid $89.95 new from Montgomery Ward. Wish I still had it. I sold it in 1964 when I came home on leave from the Navy. I needed money to buy my hunting license. I got enough money for my license and the dealer threw in a Lefever 12 double to sweeten the pot. Try that today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I bought my first firearm in 1962, for $22. It was a Marlin model 25, .22 L/R that I bought at Sears.

KC

That sounds like my wifes old .410, it is Brazilain made "Boito" shotgun if I recall correctly. It was her first gun.

My first gun was a single shot winchester 12 gauge model 37 given to me for my 12th birthday. The fist one I paid for was a enfield number 4 mark 1 that had ben semi sportarized. I paid $17 for it. tom

Paid $155 for a 12g Mossy 500 in 1985. Bought a box of slugs and promptly taught myself how to flinch. I still have it. (the gun, not the flinch ... well on good days anyway).

1966, I think. 13 years old. I bought a Rem 870 Wingmaster for $105 (all the money I earned that summer, washing cars for $1/day- yup, that's right, $1/day). I didn't even know 'til years later that dad had to go down to the gun shop to ok the sale. It wasn't until 1973 that I bought my first calculator for $120. I still use the Wingmaster. Who knows what happened to the calculator. I recently bought a calculator for $1 that has all the functions of that first one.

Ooops. Didn't read the title well. Didn't pay for my first one either. 30-30 Win carbine was a gift.

$89 for a Marlin 30-30 336, new from Gibsons in 1972(?). Dad had to do the paperwork, but I earned the money selling fish I caught that summer.

90 bucks for an SKS after I saw my Dadster had bought one. It started an addiction.