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about 1984... Savage 110 in 270...

Win 9422M. Saved up and bought it as soon as I turned 18, late ‘70’s, no one else in my family was into shooting.

Wish I still had it, it might be accurate with the Ammo available today.

Ruger 10/22

left hand browning A-Bolt medallion 7mm mag.

June of 1995. Shortly after my 18th birthday. A Ruger M77 MkII in 30-06. Topped that sucker with a sweet Redfield.

sounds cool did you keep it?

Savage 340 in .222.

In 1972, I gave my Dad some money from trapping muskrats and raccoon to buy a Savage 34M 22 Magnum for me. I have to apologize to the woodchuck hunters of northern New York for the now, low populations of chucks. I showed them no mercy for several years with that little rifle and don't think the population ever fully recovered from my efforts. I still have the rifle today.

My first was in about 1958. It was a pretty nice Mod 165 Harrington&Richardson Leatherneck. Wish I hadn't traded it for car parts that I didn't really need.

The FIRST rifle that I bought with my own money was a 07/1957 Model 760 in .244REM that I found hanging on the wall of an AR pawn shop in SEP66. = 60.oo OTD & it looked BRAND NEW. The pawnbroker asked me, "Why do you want that thing? - It's hard to buy shells for."
(Shortly thereafter, I mounted, from a garage sale, Redfield 2.75X scope/base/rings on it.)

Over 50 years later, it still shoots beautifully & has taken a LOT of WT & other smaller game, using a 90 grain JSP. - I finally told my niece (who was constantly coming to borrow it) to take it home with her & KEEP IT. = Tara says that it's, "just girl size".
(She shoots it well, too.)

yours, tex

My first was in 1958. I was 16 years old and paid $19.95 to Eatons. It was a war surplus long branch No4 MK1 in 303 British. It was very accurate as it had a new barrel. With my young eyes and the old dominion 180 gr round nose soft point I could shoot one inch groups at 100 yards repeatedly. I damaged that and got another long branch and it could do the same thing. I have now had half a dozen and those were the only two that I could shoot like that. Stupidly I sold it. Well not so stupidly I sold it in order to buy a pre 64 model 70 featherweight in 270 which I still have. Purchased new in a tire shop in 1966

The first time I bought a new rifle, 2 came home along with a scope and a decent knife.

It was in '87. The rifles were a Ruger 77 RL in .257 Roberts and a Ruger #1H in .375 H&H. The scope was a friction, not click, Leupold 2.5-8X. The knife was a Gerber LMF .. not saw-back.

I still have the knife.

Bought two at the same time/place. The 1895 Chilean Mauser 7x57 was first on the paperwork. A minute later, a 10/22.
So, I suppose the 7x57 was first.After some[much] sporterizing, it now resides in Idaho. Price for the two: $120, 1975.

Right around 1968, my brother and I were really excited about getting to hunt deer with my brother-in-law's family. We went to visit my aunt and uncle in Sacramento, and we were telling everyone we were saving up our money to buy rifles.

Then this nice old guy said, "I think I have a rifle I can sell."

He went home and brought back an 1894 Winchester with a 26" octagonal barrel in 32 Special. When we asked the price, he looked at two young, excited, piss-poor kids and said, "Oh, I think $25 should do it."

We RAN to mom, and promising all of our allowance for the next several years and all of our lawn-mowing and neighborhood bottle-scrounging money, she ponied up the dough. I don't think I was ever so excited!

Marlin 57 22 lr. Dad had given me guns before that. 410, 20 gauge, and a single shot 22.

Always infatuated with deer hunting as a youth......In 1982, I walked into Best Products and walked out with a Remington 700 BDL in 30-06. I picked the best wood out of the three they had at the time. It is still in my safe. Near flawless and I cannot bring myself to let it go...

First rifle with my money was a marlin .22 magnum.

First centerfire on my own was a Remington model 8 .35 remington.

If my first big game rifle was near flawless I'd be too embarrassed to mention it. I hunted Laurel, Greenbriar, and swamps in the rain and snow with that thing. I climbed trees, crossed deadfalls, and traversed boulder fields with it. It was a 760 Remington 30-06 and it showed the use. I sold it to my kid brother when he needed a rifle and he pissed it away. Now I wish I had it bad because every mark on that rifle told a story. And that's the way it should be.

Remington 700 bdl 7mag hunted with it for years gave it to my dad now back with me still does its job very well

Remington 700 Classic in 25-06 in 1990. It has seen some use but I rarely shoot it anymore. I have almost sold it a time or two during my horse swapping episodes but the fact that it was my first rifle keeps it around. This thread has me thinking about digging it out and shooting a few deer with it this fall.