Your first handgun?

GunNut

Mine was a Beretta Jetfire in .25 acp.  I was young and living/working in downtown New Orleans and was working a lot of late nights.  

I needed something I could just slip in my pocket because no firearms were allowed at work.  

I can tell you waiting for the street car to come by at 1:00am by myself, the butt of that little gun in my hand in my pocket was pretty darn comforting.

NN

Iver Johnson top break .32 S%W long.

Wanted a .22 lr revolver

Grandpa got this cheap from the estate of a Milwaukee Policeman

Uncle Fester

Glock 23 after I finished school.

Zee

Gifted by my father when I was a young teen, a Ruger Single Six Convertible

Still have that one. 

First I ever bought myself was a Taurus PT92 Stainless.

Elk creek

Dad gave me his retired duty weapon a Ruger Security six in 357 when I graduated from high school.  It’s still with me, will be my nephews when the time is right. 

First handgun I bought was a cap and ball Remington 1858. Great guns wish I kept it. 

RugerFan

An Fie .22 single action from Otasco. It was a Christmas gift from my parents when I was in high school. 

I honestly can't remember what the 1st handgun I purchased was. I think it was a Colt Delta Elite.

Antonio

GunNut said:

Mine was a Beretta Jetfire in .25 acp.  I was young and living/working in downtown New Orleans and was working a lot of late nights.  

I needed something I could just slip in my pocket because no firearms were allowed at work.  

I can tell you waiting for the street car to come by at 1:00am by myself, the butt of that little gun in my hand in my pocket was pretty darn comforting.

Wow....mine was a Taurus PT-52, the Brazilian-made copy of your Jetfire!
A gift from Dad when I turned 14 but wasn't allowed to carry it until legally allowed (18). 

Ended up surrendering it for destruction to the local "BATF" since a manufacturing flaw made it break the firing pin after a few shots, no matter if dry-firing was avoided. Should have demilled it and keep it.....too late.

wddodge

Do cap guns count???  Mine was a Ruger Mk 1.  I had it for a bunch of years but it got traded off for something else that I wanted at the time.

Denny

Jayhawker

The first handgun I ever used was my Step-Dad's High Standard Supermatic....shot lots of sitting Jackrabbits with that...25 cent bounty down at the Feed and Grain...

The first handgun I ever bought was, (what else?)  a Remington Rand 1911A1 , marked U.S. Property, for $75.00 at the Marine Gun Shop in Battle Creek MI...

Freezer

Kit New army 44  cap & ball BP revolver. My son has it now. My first modern hand gun is a Ruger MK II heavy barrel. I still have it and its my favorite. 


At th time I would go to my BILs cabin and shoot with his idiot friends. They were shooting SKSs, Mini 14, and so on. I had a 514 Remington single shot 22 and could out shoot them. I bought a 10/22 with 5 20 round mags.Then they got into pistols. Makorov, Bersa, some 1911s. My cap and ball revolver was ok but... I bought the Ruger. After that I could out shoot them and shoot longer each round because I had more mags and higher cap mags. After a couple hours they started counting how much money they'd spent on ammo. This broke butt had spent $15 on a brick and was reaching for another. 

sakodude

.44 cap and ball was my first ever hand gun. Carried it on backpacking trips into the Montana wilderness many times before I could legally own a handgun.
first modern handgun was a Ruger Blackhawk .357 Mag given to me by my bride as a wedding gift. Still have that one of course!

Diver43

Mine was an Arminius .357 Mag.  Not one that I would be proud of today, but it was a blast to shoot when I was a young man.  Being a young Soldier it was all I could afford.

bellcat

I shot my dads High Standard 9 for many years, bought a 44 Navy cap and ball in early 90’s, and lately a Springfield Armory 1911.

Gene L

I think it was a CZvz27. In 1968.  I was home on leave from Ft. Carson when MLK was assassinated and I had to drive to Colorado from GA right through Memphis only a few days after.  Went to my LGS and that's the only thing I could afford.  He threw in  a magazine of .32s since I couldn't afford any more. I optimistically loaded it up and drove to Colorado, no problems at all.  Memphis was quiet when I drove through there.  Got to Ft. Carson and a while later got a box of ammo to practice marksmanship.  It was only then I found out the firing pin was broken and it wouldn't shoot at all.  Had to get a firing pin MADE by a smith in Colorado Springs, as back in the day there were no parts available for a Commie pistol. The FP probably cost more than the pistol, can't remember, but sold it and got a Browning 1910 (already had a box of ammo) which I kept until 1971.  

earlyagain

Mine was Ruger 3 screw 357 mag 6" or 6.5" barrel. Whatever they came with. Got it in my early twenties. No one I knew had handguns when I learned to shoot as a kid. Had kind of a mentor when I bought it. He got me interested in handguns, but he weren't much of a shot with them. Old guy at the range gave me some pointers. Nice guy. 

zorba

I inherited my dad's .357 Security Six 4" when he passed through the veil. Didn't shoot it for a couple of years, until I decided to "get serious" about firearms. First one I actually purchased was my 1940 Luger, swiftly followed by a Ruger Mark III.

Oh, I forgot, I also inherited my father's Beretta Tomcat - a horrid little gun...

Some_Mook

1st handgun: Smith&Wesson 629 with 8 3/8" barrel.  37 years ago.  Still remember the look on my best friend's face when I opened my jacket to show him my shoulder rig after he had stated that his Ruger .44 with a 7 1/2" barrel was too big to ever carry concealed. 😲

Zee

Welcome!

Zee

Another “First” I wish I had. 

My first centerfire handgun was a blued 10.5” Ruger SBH in .44 Mag. my father got me when I was a kid. 

I took my first handgun deer with that gun at age 16. I wish I could find the picture. 

I sold the gun to a buddy in my early 20s. Bad decision. Wish I still had that gun. 

JunkCollector

Wish I still had that gun. 

You do have one like it IIRC

My first was a S&W 617
6" barrel came with the new then combat grips.

10canyon53

A few years back, before my wife was into guns and when my entire arsenal consisted of a lonely Marlin Model 60 I dragged my wife into a double date at the gun range with her best friend and her best friend's husband who had recently bought a Walther PPQ.  We had so much fun that we went pistol shopping and came home with a matched pair of S&W SD9VE's.  They turned out to be great low budget home/self defense pistols.  The internals are such a close copy of Glock that Glock sued S&W for patent infringement and won.  They have been utterly reliable and started everything rolling for us.....we now own 7 pistols between the two of us.  My only complaint is the trigger, but better aftermarket triggers are available.  We still own both of these pistols.

jbp-ohio

Ruger P90. My brother has it now. 

JKP

Glock model 22 (gen2, which was the first G22 if that makes sense). Still have it and still shoots great. Very likely the highest round count gun I own.

Big Al1

Ruger SS6 .22/22 mag. I bought in 1972 when I got back from Viet Nam. I lusted for a Colt New Frontier for the whole year I was over there. When I went to the LGS to buy one it was way out of my price range, like $165 and I made $200 a month. He said look at the Ruger. It felt better in my hand and was $100 LESS! I still have it!

JerryBobCo

That's an easy one.

It was a S&W M&P (Model 10?) .38 special I bought when I was a freshman in college.  The guy I bought it from got drunk while at home one night and touched off a few rounds in his front yard.  His dad made him sell it.  Or at least that's the story he told.  Looking back, it could have been some other reason. He was a good friend, but somewhat of a mess.

Zee

JunkCollector said:

You do have one like it IIRC

Oh yes. A dandy one at that!

Just would be nice to still have the one I took my first handgun deer with. 😢

Bigslug

Colt Gold Cup.  Dad got tired of sharing his .45.   

bullsi1911

Davis P-380.  One of the Zamak “ring of Fire” blowback crap guns of the late 80s-early 90s.  It was reliable, and surprisingly accurate.  Bought it from a guy at church for like $60 when I was 14 or 15 years old.

I shortly after upgraded to a Norinco 1911A1.

rberglof

First hand gun was also first gun, Colt Frontier Scout.

Gene L

bullsi1911 said:

Davis P-380.  One of the Zamak “ring of Fire” blowback crap guns of the late 80s-early 90s.  It was reliable, and surprisingly accurate.  Bought it from a guy at church for like $60 when I was 14 or 15 years old.

I shortly after upgraded to a Norinco 1911A1.

That's  Giant Step.  Norincos are highly thought of

Lonewolf-Peru

My first handgun was a Crossman 5.5mm pump airgun. I used it until the Steel start cracking due to metal fatigue..