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Tikka 695 SS in 30-06

Nice!!!! My first was a Mini-14, stainless....was always impressed with the A-Team growing up, until you realize they fired 5,000 rounds and no one even got hurt. I remember at drill one weekend, we had "try the Guard on". We had a 16 year old kid, who had only fired a BB gun. We had Ma Deuces set up on tripods for weapons qual. He fired a 100 round belt for his first centerfire experience......everything for him has had to be a let down.......since then!!!!

Saved up my summer farm work money and bought a Remington 742 in 30/06 ,the guy at the hardware store tossed in a box of 150 corlocks . Shot em up before I got back home ,by the next season I had learned to reload to feed my habit.

My uncle had borrowed an unsporterized "Seven Millimeter Mauser" from a neighbor to hunt deer with one fall. One day when we were visiting my cousin and I grabbed the rifle and some cartridges and ran to the river to try it out. I remember well standing on a bluff overlooking the North Fork of the Red River and aiming at a point on the other side with fear in my heart at the thought of the coming recoil. Squeezed the trigger, dirt flew on the other side and I thought "Hey, that wasn't bad! Let's do it again." I couldn't have been more than 10, cousin was a year older.

I'd still rather hunt with a 7x57 than any other round.

Same day so unknown exactly which was first.

M1899 Savage in 30-30 with a Weaver 4x, post and cross hair or a pre-64 Win M94, iron sights.

Used the Savage to deer hunt that year because dad was nervous about the hammer on the Winchester.

1987, blued Mini-14 with the wood handguard.

That would be a 92 src in 38wcf, I was 12 or so and, believe it or don't, Reagan was in his first term. Dad still has the rifle. Its taken out and fired a couple times a year these days. For dumb fun it's hard to beat.

Dad's 03-A3. Purchased around 1960, mail ordered along with the M1 carbine that soon followed. Living in Manhattan, NYC at the time.

First fired it around 1965 at which point it had been "sporterized" (ruined). Later killed a few deer in ME with it. Still in the family.

My Dads 742 30-06. I was 7 or 8. He put a rusty can over a T post. I shot offhand, the can flew and it split the top of the T post. He had to catch the rifle it tipped me over backwards.

Winchester '92 in .25-20.

My Dad's 03A3 Springfield in 257 Roberts put together by P O Ackley.

An octagon barreled Winchester Model 94 lever action in the old (now obsolete) 32-40 caliber.

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I think it was a 700 BDL VS ,Varmint Special not Varmint Synthetic for you that don't understand 700 nomenclature, in 22-250.

The old style checker pattern with scrolling in the pattern. Still my favorite style BDL checker pattern to this day.

Trapdoor Springfield that belonged to an older cousin. I was all of 12 years old .

Dad's Rem '03A3 Springfield - sporter stock (no recoil pad) and receiver peep sight when I was 11-12. Shot my first two deer with it...

I wish that this question had not been posted, I have been trying to remember what the 1st centerfire rifle I shot was to no avail. It doesn't seem like something I wouldn't remember but it has been a lot of years since it ocurred - old timers disease I suppose.

drover

Remington 788 left handed 308

Had to be a Remington 760 30-06 at age 12 or 13. Thats all Dad had

Oh yes good memories !!

My first CF shot was Dad’s 760, 30-06. I was about
14 yo. I hunted it when he wasn’t.

Dad got me started hunting young with squirrel &
quail. We didn’t have many deer close to us.

Dad is responsible for my liking Pump guns.
760, 870, and I moved to a Pump 22 as well.

Jerry

.30-30 with a steel rifle butt. I weighed 88 pounds at the time and thought it was BRUTAL!