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I guess that means "no".

Bristoe, he mentioned two guns. Which one were you interested in?

Scratch that. I see the you've since specified. Missed it.

first one my folks gave me was a model 58 Remington in 16 gauge, promptly shot a hole in the refrigerator with it, scared the hell out of my sister and didn't and see it again for a year!

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I've become leery of listing guns that I no longer own due to a forest fire.

First; Daisy lever w/peep & globe, can't remember the model

First handgun; Walther P-38

1st 22; Winchester 290

Shotgun; Rem 870

Centerfire rile; sporterized Mauser in 30-06

My first true firearm was a Western Field .410 bolt-action that fired about 30% of the time.

Then, bought an H&R single-shot 20 gauge I could hardly pull the hammer on ($10 used).

Not too good for busting brush pile, fast-footing cottontails.

Paper route monies.

The following pump shotgun was like ascending to heaven.

At about 15 Dad bought an H&R Baystate 20 ga single shot. ($25 including a box of shells) My 12 year old brother and I shared it for a few weeks, and taught our stock dogs to point and flush (respectively) pheasant.

A pair of hunters from Boise who enjoyed hunting on our property brought along a Stevens bolt action 20 ga and gave it to my brother a couple weeks later. Then the H&R was all mine.

At age 22 I purchased my first game rifle. Everyone I knew shot 30-06, so that is what I got. But I broke from three generations of tradition and bought a Win 760 bolt gun instead of a Rem pump.

I followed that up the next year with the first varmint rifle between everyone I knew including my much extended family. I bought a MIJ Wea Mk V 26 inch in 22-250. I put a Redfield accu-trac range compensating 3-9 on it, with the TV screen lens.

Everyone I knew thought rifles were just for filling the freezer. So I took the 22-250 out and killed my first deer with it.

Ruger 10/22

Savage 99 .308

Mossberg 183-K .410 (C-lect choke)

Stevens single-shot 12 ga (forget the model - wood stocks, full choke, 30")

Ruger MK II

S&W 686

First gun was a .22, a Marlin model 60 for my 12th birthday. Got my Win 94 30-30 when I was 15.
Still have both. Lord did I run a ton of ammo thru that .22 when I was a teenager..

I remember selling a lot of Marlin Model 60s when I worked the gun counter at Hermann's Sporting Goods in the early 1980s.

My first gun was Daisy Red Rider that my dad bought for me. To this day I remember how excited I was and it was great until my best friend’s dad bought him a Crosman 760 pellet rifle and then I had to have one.

I used to stare behind the counter at K-Mart at the Remington 66 and thought that was what a rifle should look like. I day dreamed about hunting rabbits and squirrels with it. My Uncle bought a Ruger 10/22 for me but I was disappointed that it wasn’t the Remington 66. In hind sight it was the better rifle and I killed 100’s of chipmunks and a few crows with it... maybe a Turkey vulture or two🤫

My first deer rifle was a Remington 700 BDL 30/06 bought with a combination of paper route money saved and my Uncle contributing.

My first shotgun was a Remington 870

First “assault rifle” was a MAK90 that I bought with my own money for $290 when I turned 18

My first pistol was a Springfield 1911 that I bought when I turned 21

Win 67A boy's carbine - for my 7th birthday.
Parents wouldn't let me have a BB gun - too dangerous!
Moved to a farm later that year - I carried that little rifle every day, bringing in the milk cow.
Killed MANY jackrabbits with it! Later, had a Lyman peep installed, and shot competitively in the junior NRA.
(Ammo was ~ .38 cents a box IIRC)

As an aside - whatever happened to the (cent) sign? Us oldsters know - the "C" with the line through it?
Oh - obsolete - "sense" don't count, anymore!

It’s a keeper, sorry.

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First gun (Glenfield Model 20, Christmas 1969), first deer rifle (Model 94 bought myself before deer season 1970), and first shotgun (Model 1100 from my Dad, used during hunting season 1969 but not officially mine for another year or so) are all still in the safe.

Hey Slumlord,
Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.

1969 - thaca 66 Supersingle 20 Ga
1970 - Ruger 10/22 Deluxe Sporter Fingergroove Stock ***
1971- JC Higgins Pump 12 GA with a Dogdeeek Choke
1973 - Browning BLR 243 ***

*** Still have

Grew up hunting with 870 shotguns, 12 and 16. When I was 12 my father bought me a Sears Ted Williams 30-30 (Winchester). Next was H&R single shot 12 ga. shotgun. Next was a Ruger 10/22, all are sitting in my safe. Along with dad’s Model 81.

First gun I ever bought was a Ruger Security Six. Next was a Winchester Model 70 in .270. Had to sell both to make ends meet while in college. Somewhere along the line while co-oping in college was an H&R 300 mag.

First one given to me was a Model 72 Winchester .22, a year or so later, a Winchester 370 in .410 bore.

Those two guns accounted for a large amount of squirrels (and some songbirds).

First one I bought myself was a brand-new 1970 Model 94 Winchester .30-30. It's killed a bunch of deer and a couple pigs and black bears.

I still have them all.