I will never forget the day my father packed up us three boys and our meager allowances and savings and headed into Seattle's Skid Road (the only place "hock shops" were allowed at that time) to buy us kids a "22 Rifle".
The year was 1954 and I was so excited I had to pee all the way to the shop.
We deliberated over a used $17.00 Winchester Model 69 and a much cheaper used Remington Model 510 Targetmaster ($13.00).
Due to money issues we bought the Remington 510 and I haven't been the same since.
I have told this part of the story on this forum in the past but the owner of that pawn shop was a Jew and had the Nazis inflicted tattoo on his forearm. I made the mistake of asking him what those numbers on his arm were for - my father backhanded me but the owner came to my defense and took no offense at my naivete.
I was 7 years old at the time and 15 years later as a rookie police officer walking that skid road beat I befriended Mr. Freidman and his son and bought several more firearms from his shop over the years.
Still have that nifty old family 22 and it has shot a "ton" of Starlings and Crows over the ensuing 70 years.
Haven't shot it lately - but I just might get it out and shoot some of these nest robbing Magpies that surround my place to celebrate this new forum.
Bought a LOT of Remingtons since then but this was my (our) first.
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VarmintGuy
That's a great story! Get out there and celebrate. Mine was a 870.
Wasn’t mine, but cut my teeth shooting a dear friends (now deceased) Model 512 Sportsmaster in the early 1960’s. Not a lot of money as 10 or 11 year olds and we shot shorts, longs or long rifles depending upon how many pennies, nickels and dimes we could scrape up together.
First Remington I owned was a 243 700 ADL that I bought at Walmart sometime in the mid 70’s.
In 1980 purchased a 270 700 Classic that I’m still chasing PA and NY bucks with 43 years later. Joe had four of them in the back room, brought them out, put them on the counter and told me to pick out a piece of wood. Bought a Leupold M8 4X the same day that is still on the gun. Never wanted or needed anything else. The 270 has lots of Mojo.
First Remington that was actually mine was a 700 mountain rifle in 30-06 . I've replaced the stock with a Grayboe, Timney trigger, Leupold 3.5-10 . Shot a pile of deer , a dozen or so bear , Bobcats, turkey and a few others over the years.
X-mas morning 1971.
581 .22
I couldn't even try to guess how many bricks have been through it.
Blazers were $5.60 a brick. I could mow lawns for ammo.
Amazingly accurate. .22 tip-off scope on it.
It was followed 2 years later by a Wingmaster as I got bird hunting fever.
I ordered a 760 BDL 30.06 a couple years later & put a Redfield widefield 3x9 on it.
My first one was a 511 Scoremaster, for Christmas when I was 12. I was expecting a single shot, so I was surprised when I got it. I still have it, have killed a gazillion assorted critters with it, and it is still the most accurate 22 rifle I have ever owned or shot.
First .22 M24., first shotgun 31TC, first big game rifle 721 30-06..
Poconojack: That Remington 700 Classic in 270 Winchester is one of the few "Classic calibers" I have never owned.
Several friends of mine do own them in that caliber and like you they love them and they won't let them go.
Over the years I slowly became aware of how universally accurate these slender barreled Remington 700 Classics are - I am talking in all the calibers I have owned and seen shooting (from 17 Remington on up through 35 Whelen!).
Keep enjoying that Remington Classic.
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VarmintGuy
MikeS: I had to look up that Model 24 Remington 22 to remind myself about it.
I have never owned one myself.
That was a John M. Browning design.
If you still own it enjoy it they were discontinued in 1935!
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VarmintGuy
A 580 around 1965. My first firearm and still have it!
MikeS: I had to look up that Model 24 Remington 22 to remind myself about it.
I have never owned one myself.
That was a John M. Browning design.
If you still own it enjoy it they were discontinued in 1935!
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VarmintGuy
I no longer have it unfortunately. One thing that I will always remember about it as the barrel was marked .22LR Lesmoke or Smokeless. Apparently Lesmoke was an interim powder between black and smokeless.
First one I owned was a 870 12 gauge (modified choke) Christmas present from my parents, a long time ago. Still got it and use it if/when I am looking for a couple grouse for the camp.
First remington I bought was a 700 mtn rifle in 280, IIRC. Maybe a dozen or so other remingtons (all centrefires) since then but only the 870 is here currently. Model 70s have pretty much taken over the centrefire lineup!
LH 788 308 Win and wish I still had it............
A 878 12ga that I got at 15 years old
First was my dad's 514 single shot 22. It was originally bought by his father. This is one of the few guns my grandfather's brother did not steal upon grandpa's death.
The first I bought was a 20 ga 870 Mag. It was built on a 12 ga frame so is heavy but doesn't recoil much. I still have both though the 870 isn't used much. The 22 is used now and then for pests.
A used 742 in .308 Win, bought it instead of a .30-06 because it was $15 cheaper. No telling how much saving the initial $15 cost me over the years with the extra cost of .308 ammo vs .30-06?
A 514 when I was 8 years old. I still have and still take it out on occasion.
When I came of elk hunting age my dad handed me a 1962 M700 ADL “carbine” chambered in 270W with a steel tube Weaver that had a distinct yellowish tint when looking through it. Killed a raghorn bull that fall. The following year I had enough money to put a Bushnell Banner 1.5-4 on it.
It definitely improved the view….
I guess from what I read I was a late bloomer, when I was about 20 I walked into Sears and bought a nylon 66. When I was about 45 I bought a model 81 in 300. I have great respect for the old rems, the quality is right there.
Mine was a rifle/scope combo……a 788 .308W with a 4X scope of unknown origin.
Bought it new in 1970 and if my memory serves me correctly it was $109.99.
Bought a case xx fixed blade with sheath at the same time and killed my first buck a couple weeks later.
Nylon 66 MB received as a Christmas gift, which I still have.
Next came Remington 660s in 6MM and 222, a 788 in 22-250, a 700V in 22-250, and a couple of hundreds more over the past 57 years.
Today there are 81 on the books; 64 centerfire, 11 rimfire, 5 shotguns, and 1 muzzle loader.
788 in 222. Buddy shot the head off a magpie at 150 yards with it and had to have it. He still has it 40 years later. Maybe I'll call him.
Model 12 C that was my grandfathers. I have it in my safe. I gave it to my son.
Was in my 20s before I could afford a new rifle, and I wanted a left handed 700 really bad. Went into a local shop with a tax refund in my pocket looking for a 30-06 BDL. They had one lefty in stock, but it was in 270Win. Guy behind the counter thought I was just a tire kicker and kept trying to put my rifle back on the rack. I went to gathering up bullets, brass, primers, and powder, and he changed his tune when I pulled out the envelope of money. Can't recall exactly but I think the rifle was priced just north of $300. A lot of money to me back then.
Only thing left of that rifle now is the action, and it's been worked, bolt machined out for magnum bolt face, M16 extractor installed. Heavy Kreiger barrel, oversized lug, Schuler brake, surgeon DBM bottom metal, etc. I made the synthetic stock. 300WM.
First one I bought was a 700 BDL in 243 Win. Early 80s model.
Great story VG.
When I would come to Seattle for my annual 'blowout' from AK, in those days, late 60's early '70's, I think pier 48 was the terminal. I would make it a point to visit Warshal's Sporting Goods a couple blocks up from the waterfront...buy a rifle a trip, and a year's clothing and boots.
One year I found a Remington model 30 Express, .30-06 of course, well used, in their rack...it was such an old sweetheart, I still have it and hunt with it at least a couple days a year, 50 plus years later. Funny thing though, it has gotten heavier in the last 50 years.
Remington 572 Fieldmaster. Bought it with summer job money when I was 14.
my first new was a Rem m700 Mountain Rifle in '06 in 1990. it wasn't the best or the most accurate rifle (God knows i went thro so many manufactures bullets and powder!!!), but it was ok. then i bought Rem m700 A,B and CDL in 243 Winchester and '06. i got my ex wife a Rem m7 in 243 Win. then i got a Rem m760 in 308. all of these rifles were sold. back in the early to mid '90s i bought a Rem m7 in 7-08 (i have another one that was my dad's (RIP)). i also got from my dad the Rem m870 in 12ga, 16ga and 410, Rem m572 100 year anniversary in 22LR, Rem m760 in '06 and i forget what else. i have a Rem m14 in 30 Rem that i just adore.
My first was a model 700 adl in 30-06 I bought used when I was 11. My grandpa worked at one of the sawmills in town and a coworker was getting rid of it. I had money saved up from mowing yards, shoveling roofs in the winter and any else I could do to make a dollar. It’s accounted for a lot of critters over the years. It’s actually at the gunsmith getting another barrel put on it now.
My first was a 760 30-06 & strangely my last was a 760 carbine that is much older than the one I bought around 1980.
A Remington 870 Upland Special in 20 gauge with a fixed IC choked barrel back in '89.
I was murder on grouse and bunnies in the thickets we hunted - should have never let it go. But I lusted after 20 gauge O/U and was still young and foolish.
Now a minty Model 7 FS from the same era chambered in 7mm-08 consoles me.
A 552 Speedmaster, 22 rimfire. Multiple Model 700s and 1100s to follow. 😁
THinking my 870 was first, followed by an ADL in 22-250, then a Nylon 66.
The Nylon is still here, & about the most dependable item I think I've experienced in my life time.
An 870 20ga Christmas morning 1982. It was almost just like the scene in the movie Christmas Story.
a mod. 39 rem. pump 12 ga with a full choke cutts comp. on it . my uncle gave it to me in 1973, killed every thing with it for years . I gave it back to his grandson a good wile ago ,that young man is still on cloud 9 . he was to young to know him .so it is special to him
Mine was a ‘03 or a 03-A3, not sure which was first. As far as civilian Remington, I had three 600 Mohawks/660’s about the same time. 22-250 (rebarreled) 308 and 350. I a 700 264 BDL shortly thereafter.
Mine was a Nylon 11, of all things.
541-T in the early eighties. And a 673 guide gun in 350 mag about the same time. The pile of grouse the 541 has piled up would be very impressive.
My first Remington was a 4 digit Model 8 35 Remington gifted to me by my Grandfather in 1979. I killed a buck with it shortly thereafter. The gun was bought new by his uncle in 1908. I intend to kill a buck with it in 2024.
My first was a Remington 1100, 12ga, 28” full. My father got it for me, and I learned to shot trap with it.
My first was a 600 in 223 circa 1966. I told the fellow at the Embassy Gun Shop in Taipei Taiwan I wanted the first 223 they could get their hands on, as I could get all the ammo I could shoot from the AF armorer. Well the 600 arived and was the ugliest rifle I'd ever seen. It went straight to the armorer and the the rib and shark fin sight were removed, the rib studs milled off and the squared stock given some nice rounding off. Untold cans of 55gr ball ammo went through it and it killed stuff for me for 40 year before the barrel gave up the ghost and now it is continuing on as a 6x45. A few months after that I bought a 742 BDL Deluxe in 308 (again free ammo), fitted it with a receiver sight and sling and shot competitively with the ROC army guys.
Mine was a 700 ADL .270 in 1978 quickly followed by two Wingmaster 870’s, a 12 and a 20.
Mod 514 single shot 22. Bought with money earned moving lawns . I must have been 14 bought it at the local hardware, I don't remember even asking my folks about it before hand. Better days then now. --- Mel
Flintlocke: I used to work "off-duty" there at Warshals om Seattles "skid road" and did so for many years.
I worked in uniform and protected the Jewish folks from the marauding ghetto spawn (that would ride on the "free" transit buses from their ghettos to downtown and once there they would caper and steal shidt).
Anyway many (all?) of the employees there in the Warshals store (a combination sporting goods shop, gunsmith shop, camera shop and athletic shoes sales emporium) were Jewish and the owners were two Jewish brothers and the managers and supervisors were Jewish. I did NOT know til I started working there that there was an animosity/fear of negro's by Jewish folks!
Anyway all the hourly wages I earned there were turned into guns and ammo (at a discount!).
That was a excellent gunstore/gunsmith shop at one time - sad to see it gone.
As an aside - one day I was there working in uniform and the owner who had dropped in to see how things were going calls me aside and says "come outside I want to show you something".
I go outside with him and once outside he says "what do you think of that new Federal Building" (which encompassed the whole adjacent city block!)?
I said it sure is beautiful and I'll bet lots of new rich government customers for your store.
He gives me a grin and says - I am already charging them rent! He and his brother owned that city block and built that high rise building on it specifically to rent to government agencies (V.A., H.U.D. etc etc etc).
I will never forget the gleam in his eye and the pride he displayed to me about his property/success. I was shocked as I had NO idea he owned that amazing Puget Sound view property.
Yeah I miss that Warshals store and working there for "mad money". If I recall correctly the Warshal family owned and operated that store for 80+ years.
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VarmintGuy
Christmas morning 1977, 870 Wingmaster 26" IC. Still have it. One of my most treasured possessions. Pop has been gone since 1993, love you dad.
The first I fired was a Model 788 in 6mm Rem.
The first I owned was a Model 700 in .25-06 Rem, I still have it.
870 Wingmaster and 788 in 6mm.
Bought them both when I was in HS.
870 Wingmaster LH 20 gauge. I was 12. I used it for everything including deer
Was in my 20s before I could afford a new rifle, and I wanted a left handed 700 really bad. Went into a local shop with a tax refund in my pocket looking for a 30-06 BDL. They had one lefty in stock, but it was in 270Win. Guy behind the counter thought I was just a tire kicker and kept trying to put my rifle back on the rack. I went to gathering up bullets, brass, primers, and powder, and he changed his tune when I pulled out the envelope of money. Can't recall exactly but I think the rifle was priced just north of $300. A lot of money to me back then.
Only thing left of that rifle now is the action, and it's been worked, bolt machined out for magnum bolt face, M16 extractor installed. Heavy Kreiger barrel, oversized lug, Schuler brake, surgeon DBM bottom metal, etc. I made the synthetic stock. 300WM.
A guy behind the counter did that to me once. The second time he put it back I decided to walk out with my money
My first Remington was a 521T 22LR bolt action. My Dad had bought it in the early 50's at a local hardware store for shooting pocket gophers and stripped ground squirrels (we called them gophers too) on the farm. Come early 60's around 1962 I was 14 and had shot it alot with my Dad and was allowed to take out on my own shooting the critters and red tree squirrels and rabbits. Dad advised if I took care of it I could have as my own. The stock had taken some beating over the years from Dad carrying it on the tractor and had some minor barrel exterior issues. When I was a kid I always thought that the 521T was a rifle my Dad carried in WW2 even though he was in the US Coast Guard (North Atlantic/South Pacific duty). To young eyes it looked pretty big and fearsome.
Around 1969 I bought a stock refinishing and barrel reblue kits from Herters and redid the rifle. Came out really well, got alot of compliments from friends and older shooters. Still have the rifle, it served me well as my only 22 rifle until I bought a Marlin 39M in 1970. Still have both rifles and shoot off and on. The 521T will still shoot tight groups at normal 22 iron sight range, stock now has a few normal use dings but is in great shape for being around 3/4 of a century in age. My son shot it alot growing up, daughters did some. All were pretty good with the Lyman rear peep sight. My two grandsons have shot it alot also, both were deadly with it growing up and now claim they can outshoot me with it. They call it the "Double Grandpa 22". Two of my older granddaughters like it also. Someday probably have to have a drawing on the Ol Rem 521T to see who gets it, but there are other 22's in the stable maybe just one of em will want it. Great 22 rifle with alot of history over the years.
The 521T is the firearm that sparked an interest in gunsmithing with me. Before I refinished it I was curious as how it worked. Took it all apart when I was around 17 or so. Cleaned it up real well and then came the part about putting it back together. Was a pretty good puzzle. My Dad advised a person should know how something goes back together before taking apart, but advised me to study the parts really well, visualize how they might work, try this and that and it will come together. He could have done it but left it up to me as a good teaching. After studying the parts, trying this and that I got it together, was a breeze in the future takedowns. That time and exercise was the catalyst in my mind that gave me the ability to disassemble and reassemble about every firearm type I've run across without any schematic, just study the parts. Thanks to the Remington 521T over the years, great memories.
In a moment of weakness, a 1901 Remington rolling block 7x57 followed me home Friday. All original, tight crisp action but the bore looks like a poorly maintained culvert. I will begin scrubbing on the bore this weekend. Maybe Gnoahhh will chime in with some tips to ease my journey of (mis?)understanding.
700 ADL 30-06...1973 or so...Put an old Leupold 4 power scope on it and killed my first deer with it on Buck Mountain near Mt Adams...My dad etched his name on a metal plate near a quarter section marker and in 1994 a friend found it and sent it to me...He and my Dad worked together on the Mt Adams Ranger District in the 60s and 70s...Got my first elk on the Lewis River drainage in 75 or so
My first was a 722 in .222
It was my only centerfire rifle for a good while and as such it got shot a fair amount. It was probably a bad “first” rifle to own as even tho it was nothing fancy boy did it shoot. Spoiled me something fierce!
My LGS had some manner of soft point Remington ammo for 14-15 bucks a box So I’d grab a few and head out. Even with the cheap 3x9 tasco it came with that rifle was a shooter…
First shotgun: Dad's 11-48 Sportsman in 12 ga.
Kicked like the proverbial mule. Likely why dad carried my .410 when we hunted rabbits and l had to carry his Remington. Wisdom comes with age.
First rifle: Model 700BDL Varmint Special in . 243.
Bought it from a NJ State Trooper friend when I was a senior in H.S. First centerfire rifle.
I started with a Remington 514 .22 single shot rifle at the age of 8. That was my first rifle, and my father and I used to go behind our house into a small gully in the woods and shoot targets. It was great fun, but until I was about 12, I didn't get to shoot that rifle as much as my BB gun because I was required to have an adult with me when shooting a firearm.
700 ADL in .270 Win. Got it for Christmas when I was 13. It replaced the Marlin 30-30 I’d been shooting deer with. Had it for over 40 years. Still have it, and the 30-30.
700,adl bought it new in 69. .308
My first Remington was an 870. Bought sometime in the 70s.
Latest will hopefully deliver in a week or so...a M14 35 Remington bought on this very forum.
First was a Nylon 66 bought in early '60's and followed that with an 870 about the same time. Still have both!
A used 552 Speedmaster. Long gone, only kept it maybe 4 yrs or so.
First one that I kept is a 700 Classic 350 RemMag, purchased new in spring of 1986. Still have it.
BDL 7 Mag, traded boss for a weeks pay when second girl was born and 300 bucks. His son still hunts with it.
My first Remington (not first gun) was used 50’s something 870 12 I bought in early 80s with a non vent rib modified barrel. Later on got a slug barrel and had it drill for a weaver side mount so I could take the scope on and off. Also bought a 30” full choke barrel that is 3” even though it’s a 23/4 receiver. Shot tons of turkeys with 3” shells even though they didn’t always eject. I have killed countless deer , squirrels, rabbits and grouse as well. It will never leave my possession, when it was my only 12 gauge life seemed so much simpler and better for that matter
Oh and a coyote too, here it is a few years ago sitting on the “crying rock” waiting on a late season buck
Mike2: I remember those Remington 700 Classics in 350 Remington Magnum.
Back when I did all the gunshows in the PNW the Alaskan and Canadian Bear Hunters would come down and scour the gunshows and gunshops for 350's to use for Bears.
I never owned one myself.
I have been along with 3 different Elk Hunters who killed Bull Elk here in Montana with Remington 700 Classics in 35 Whelen though.
Ever use your 350 Magnum on Bears?
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VarmintGuy
700 ADL in 7mm Express, bought it at a gun show in the school cafeteria, Mancos , Colorado, early 80's . Had a pocketful of money from a coal mine in NM.
first thing I did was take off the see through scope mounts.
Sycamore
My first was a Remington Model 700ADL in .270 on Christmas in 1973 - I was 10 (almost 11) and had to have it my poor mother gave in to all my whining (I was and maybe still am an ass - poor woman was a great mother and I put her through “hell” with my gun addiction🥴).
Since then I’ve accumulated a few dozen Remington rifles and shotguns including Models 7, 12, 121, 34, 341, 14, 14 1/2, 141, 25, 31, 40X, 513, 540, 541, 572, 581/2, 591/2, 600, 700, 760, 7600, 870, 1100 11-87 and a Remington-Lee sporting rifle. I guess I like them?!
PennDog
Remington 514 M Dad got it for me when I was 8-9 years old. I roamed the hills in the Catskills terrorizing the woodchucks, rabbits, squirrels, and crow. Put a weaver B-6 on it and my grand sons still use it today.
Bought a BDL 700 in 243 back from England in 1967 and killed my first two whitetails with it and a couple antelope and I still use it.
Bought a 700 Mountain Rifle in 280 in the 80's and used it on my first elk and many more after and its been carried all over the west.
Also bought a 700 youth for my daughter and grandsons in 7-08 and they all have taken elk with it.
I've owned 870'2 and still shoot a 20 and a 12 1100.
My first Remington was a 788 in 223. Bought it around 1974 or 5. Mainly to hunt coyotes with. Still got it, still shoots 1/2" groups off the bags and next month will accompany me to the rat fields for the third time. Only alteration so far is a Timney trigger.
Either a 600 Mohawk 308 or a 552. Can’t remember which I got first. Still got both.
Probably like most everyone else here in PA... Model 760.
Man, that gun had recoil for the cartridge.
Summer of 1973, I purchased my first Remington, a 700 BDL in .270 with my saved up paper route money. Dad mounted one of those “new fangled” Redfield Widefield 2x7 scopes on it for me.
My first was a 722 in 222 rem, I got it 65 years ago, still have it, still shoots 3 shots into one big hole
My first Remington was a 760 game master in 30-06
It belonged to my grandfather I took it over when I was 13-14.
I've hunted with it for over 40 years now.
It kicked like a mule back then with the metal butt plate !
I still have it,but have upgraded the optics and fit it with a Limbsaver pad. I have lost track of the number and variety of critters it has harvested.
It put 2 more deer in the freezer this fall.
The first Remington I bought was a 700 Classic in 300 H&H
Had a stupid moment and let it get away
But I still have my Classics in 250 Savage and 257 Bob.
They were my second and third Remingtons
Mike2: I remember those Remington 700 Classics in 350 Remington Magnum.
Back when I did all the gunshows in the PNW the Alaskan and Canadian Bear Hunters would come down and scour the gunshows and gunshops for 350's to use for Bears.
I never owned one myself.
I have been along with 3 different Elk Hunters who killed Bull Elk here in Montana with Remington 700 Classics in 35 Whelen though.
Ever use your 350 Magnum on Bears?
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VarmintGuy
Carried it on a spring black bear hunt in Alaska, never had a shot. We were camped at sea level, bears were at about 1500ft. By the time we got up to bear elevation they'd moved on. Did get a caribou with it in the fall.
I actually bought the 350 after finding out the Army was sending me to Alaska for a couple of years, '86 to '88. Thought my Sav 30/30 might have been a little light.
Oh and a coyote too, here it is a few years ago sitting on the “crying rock” waiting on a late season buck
I think I know that rock.
First was a 12ga 870 police trade in. Second was a 700 BDL in 7RM. No one in my family hunted and I didn't know any better, but I still have both. I intended to move west after school and that 7RM was going to be my everything rifle. I was dumb and got married instead. I finally got to take my first and only elk with that 7RM 35 years later.
Mine was a 700 BDL 30-06. I was 14 yrs old and had saved up the money. Paid around $140 bucks for it new back in 1973. Started reloading for it in 1974.
First was a 600 Mohawk .222. Followed by 760 in 300 Savage and 700 in 25.06
Model 600 in 350 mag. Got it for my X-mas present age 12. 56 years later I got rid of that kicking little cannon.
When my Grandaddy passed away, Grandma gave me his Remington 33 single shot… I was like 20 years old. I have many rifles and few shotguns, but the last one I would let go of would be that Rem 33….and with the iron sights I can’t hit much with it anymore, but I like to look down the barrel once in a while and dream of days gone by.
My first was a 514 Boys Rifle for $10 second hand. Great story
Back in the late 1950s my parents bought me a Remington Model 511 Scoremaster 22 rimfire. It was the first of many Remington rifles and shotguns.
First Remington I owned was gifted to me when I was 9, it was a Remington 33. He was a friend of my grandfathers, I liked to listen to his hunting stories as they were as close as I could get to hunting back then since my dad had no interest. Still have it in my gun cabinet. He couldn't believe I was that old and no one had given me a rifle yet. I can still remember setting the car after dropping him off, he asked us to wait right there he'd be back. Next thing I knew I had my first rifle.
First center fire, christmas 1971,11years old...
Rem.600, .243
Still have it...always will..
Mine was probably an adl .222.
Mine was a Remington 870 pump shotgun. I hunted with with a lady and rabbit hunted with her husband. He had it it priced at $100 but took in trade a big Delta landscape in oils that I had done. She saw it in my classroom and wanted it for her living room. She persuaded her husband to make a trade. I had been offered $500 for the painting at one time. We both were happy with the deal. I later found an imp cyl barrel for $50 and really smoked the doves and rabbits. Still have a 870 turkey gun with 21” barrel and screw in chokes that I traded my first 870 for. I use it for turkey and home defense. At one time I had all my bases covered by Remington: REM 742 in 30/06, REM 870 in 12 gauge, and REM 552 in 22 and a 510 single shot 22.
My first Remington was a 1100 20ga my father bought for me in 1970. I was 13 years old. The first Remington rifle I bought myself was a nylon 66 22 about a year or so later. soon after that I bought a mod 742 woods master in 30-06. I've had many M-700's, several 1100's in 410,28, 20, 12ga. A 3200 12ga trap gun and 2 1187's.
First was a walnut stocked model 7 in 243, 10ish I'd say. I remember I was so eager to take it out we hadnt even put a scope on it yet. Sitting in a deer stand he let me shoot at one about 250 yards away in a clearcut knowing I wouldn't hit it...and I did not. Anyway, he decked it out with kwiksites, a tasco worldclass or proghorn, and gunchaps.
We hunted in a shotgun only county mostly, but were members elsewhere that allowed rifles. I killed a few with it. Had a piebald doe come out one evening and I popped her perfect and she ran. Shooting corelokts at the time. We found her the next morning. When dad picked me up from school the next day he had one of those early stainless synthetic adl mountain rifles in the truck in 270. He said heck with a 243, I was bigger and older anyway. Don't know how many deer I've killed with that gun. Sort of retired it the last 10 years or so since I discovered the joy of a model 7 in 708.
1949, i was 14 years old, my father put a new model 141 Rem pump on lay away with a small deposit at a store in Bristol Pa.
Total cost at that time was $104.95.
I killed several bucks with it before trading it for a new condition 760 in 30/06 with a Weaver 2.5 power scope at Paul Jeagers gun shop in Jenkintown Pa.
1981 7600 pump 3006.Still have it shoots awesome.
Model 660 308. bought it for $95 New, The summer I graduated HS. Night shift stocking shelves at the local A&P food store.
I’m not positive but I think my first Remington was my 760 Deluxe left handed .308
Purchased around 1984 maybe?
Model 700 in 280 Rem, took my first deer with that rifle, and still have it.
My grandfather gave me his Model 1100 12 gauge in 1979. Still hunt it every year. My first rifle was a Model 700 BDL my parents bought used and gave me when I was 18. Been hunting that rifle 40 Years now. These two will be the last to go and I hope they stay in the family.