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to get into this i think it was 2011 or so when i bought a TC Encore in 50 cal inline. my grandfather bought me a used Winchester m94 in 30-30 when i was around 13 or 14 yo. i don't know of the number of dead deer that i killed with the 30-30, but it ranks #1. i don't use the 30-30 anymore (i have 1926 Remington m14 in 30 Rem), so i sent the m94 to JES Reboring and now it has a 35/30-30.

the first rifle i bought was a Remington m700 Mountain rifle in '06, but i sold her serval years later. i only own two of early 1990s Rem m7 in 7-08, 2010s several MGM Encore barrels and a 2016 Ruger SBH in 44 mag.

i have had new Savages and Remington but i sold them. i have other rifles but they are used, like the 91, 93, 95 and 98 Mausers, 1898 Springfield Armory's, Carcano's, Arisaka, Ruger #1, Husqvarna's and others.

A $380 Walmart special synthetic 700ADL 270, 2004 I think. It got used heavily until I got other rifles, then it sat for years. Just put a new barrel and stock on and reamed it to 270Weatherby, because I always wanted one. Really happy with it, will use it more now.

1974 LH 700 Remington 270. Killed everything with it . 2 nd barrel and stock . Still have it and many more lh rifles I still use the 270 for deer .

1979 and I was a freshman in college, a LGS had 2 left handed Remington 788’s, one in 308, the other in 6mm. Each gun was $135 new and I could only afford one so I got the 308 just before deer season. That gun has taken quite a few deer.

Good for you

I was thinking the same thing.
I have a couple of rifles i bought new when i was 14 or 15 but i can't compete with the octogenarian crowd

Sako Finnbear in .270 Win. that I bought new in 1969. My first centerfire rifle. If I recall correctly it cost $160.00. But that was when a dollar was worth something.

I want to say I bought my 3006 7600 carbine in 1999 when I was 29 or 30. The wood stock has been heavily rasped, recoil pad installed, aftermarket trigger kit, speed safety, Williams peep, fiber optic front sight (going to make a square bead for it this year per the recent thread here), I've played with scout scopes. It's still my go-to. The bluing is non-existent where I carry it one-handed around the receiver/barrel junction and in other wear areas. I haven't used it exclusively since - took a moose with Dad's 06 BAR and a deer (or two?) with a push feed 70 in 06 but, mostly this gun has killed my deer. I ordered this rifle at a LGS right here in town which no longer exists. I've accumulated a lot of stuff over the years but, nothing I couldn't part with aside from this rifle. I'm currently having a custom rifle built which is another first for me and it will cost many times the $600 (?) I paid for the 7600. I'm sure this custom will be a prized possession. But, it will never have been the rifle that I carried for all those miles during the prime of life while I became a man and lived the life of a man. You can take whatever you like if you need it more than I do but, don't even think about the pump-gun!

Marlin 336A, 30-30, micro-groove rifling with 24" barrel. Purchase new in 1976 for $92 from Leslie Edelmann's in Farmingdale, NY.

Still have it. Shoots 5-shot 1" groups at 100 yards with 170 grain Speer flat points over 32 grains Win 748.

Since none of us could legally "buy" a firearm before we turned 18 years of age, the first new firearm that "I" bought and did the paperwork for after turning age 18 would have been a Remington 700V in 22-250 in 1973.

"I" paid for firearms prior to turning age 18, but either my Father or my Mother was the actual buyer for legal purposes. The earliest new firearm that I paid for was a Remington 660 in 308 in 1969 when I was 14.

I have bought multiple new in box firearms from previous owner that went back to the first decade of the 20th Century. Although they were still new in box, they had been previously owned, so new, but not new, if you know what I mean.

I have never bought a new rifle.

I still have my Glenfield Model 60 that I saved my money for & bought from a Western Auto as a young teenager around 1974. So 49 years old. The original 4x scope (Tasco?) is no longer on it but I can still plink with it. It has around 0% of its bluing left. I haven’t parted with it mainly because of all the effort it took me to convince my parents to let me buy it.

Speaking fir my wife……she (with help from her then husband) got her first rifle (a little Ruger Model 77 in 270 Win.) in 1975. She used borrowed rifle’s to kill a deer, antelope, and a moose prior to getting her own! It’s been retired since 1996…..but, has a pretty good legacy!

They bought their two sons shotguns and 270 Win.’s by their 12th birthdays! memtb

Nylon 66 bought in 1971. My first gun purchase.

Mossberg, .22 bolt action carbine with the fold down fore arm, bought new in 1953 still have it and it still shoots great, it's got more than few Thousand rounds down the tube. Rio7

First new rifle I had was an Anschutz 141M .22 mag as a Christmas gift in 1965. First I bought new was a 788 in .222 spring of 1967. In between those two there was a sporterized 03-A3, a .30 caliber carbine and a 20 gauge Beretta Companion.

I have the same first to me new gun (birthday present in 1949) Mossberg 142A. Mine was a first year production with the wood fold down fore arm, later ones were plastic. It came with the peep sight and also a genuine Mossberg scope, which has long since disppeared.

It is now in my sons care and someday will go to my grandson, but at this point my son is not ready to let go of it since he uses it to continue its mission of sending gophers to their demise.

Everytime I shoot it I am amazed at how well it shoots while defining every logical reason for it to do so.

drover

A Bicentennial Ruger M77 in 7mm Rem Mag with the stamping "Made In The 200th Year of American Liberty" on the barrel.
Bought by me in 1976 for $175 when I was 19 years old.
Since then it has taken 20+ elk, at least 50 deer, maybe a half dozen antelope, and a mountain goat.
It is well worn from many horseback hunts, and is now semi-retired in favor of SS composite stocked rifles.
I am planning on taking it to fill a cow elk tag this fall.
It's the last rifle I will ever part with.

Model 64 Winchester in 30/30.....in June of 1966, at the RAF Alconbury Rod & Gun Club, for less than $50.00

Inherited a 1958 or so made Remington 870 in 12 gauge, my dad bought new A Quantico PX

Oldest rifle that I bought new that I still have is a Sako L691 300 Wby I bought in 1994.

Oldest firearm is my Rem 1100 12 gauge I bought in 1975.