First gun you ever SHOT?

Gene L

In keeping with the Firsts threads, I'll throw this one out there.  For me, it was a Winchester thumb-trigger .22 Short, don't remember the model number, a tiny, unusal little gun my brother picked up somewhere.  This was a long time ago, but I remember shooting it out the back door with my father supervising. I don't remember what happened to that rifle, we didn't take care of it.  Wish I still had it.

zorba

1890 (?) Winchester pump .22lr.

Spk

The first gun I ever shot was a Daisy but if we're talking about the ones that go bang, then it was a Savage(?) Stevens single shot .22 bolt gun. It wasn't mine so I don't remember exactly what it was but it was an amazing experience. I was also more peeved than Ralphie that this guy had this awesome rifle and I was still shooting a pellet gun. 😠

Yes, I have found memories of those days and I still remember the crack of the rifle and recoil from those .22 rounds! Compared to a pellet gun the recoil was substantial! 😁 From then on, I couldn't wait to get a real gun.

earlyagain

I can't remember

Zee

I have no clue. 

Diver43

 Pulled the trigger once on a friends 12 gauge when about 15. Real shooting was a US ARMY issued M-16A1 at Ft Leonard Wood, Mo. March 1977.

Bigslug

Hee!  One of my favorite stories!

It was PROBABLY one of the smaller-grip High Standard .22's, but maybe a Colt Woodsman belonging to my Dad's boyhood friend, who we were visiting when I was maybe 4-5 years old.

This was rural Illinois in winter.  Dad's pal had his backyard range complete with the standard chunk of cardboard stapled to a pair of wooden uprights.  The weather was such that the face of that cardboard was encased in a thick layer of snow.

Standing maybe 5 yards away, the first round I ever fired caused ALL of that snow to break loose of the cardboard and fall to the ground.  A switch got thrown in my brain and I intuitively understood that " I can stand HERE, and make stuff happen OVER THERE!!!  THIS IS MAGIC!!!"

That was my first hit on the crack pipe. 

Lt.

Probably Ruger 10/22. Was the first gun I ever got and still have it! 

wddodge

A Daisey Red Ryder followed by a Crosman pump up pellet gun followed by some kind of lever action .22 that belonged to my brother.

Denny

Gene L

Everybody's first was a Daisy BB gun.  A good training tool.  It taught me how to shoot.

Big Al1

Other than a BB gun, the first was a single shot .22. Don't recall the brand, but you had to pull the bolt knob to cock it.

JerryBobCo

My dad's 22.  It was a Remington bolt action if I recall.  Don't know the model, though.

He told me we could do the shooting in a caliche pit.  I didn't know what that was, and asked.  He told me caliche was what people made roads from.  I had an image of a boiling tar pit, and was scared to death that I would drop the rifle into the pit.  I was greatly relieve to learn it wasn't that, and ever more relieved at the light recoil.  I even asked if it had fired.

I must have been 7, as I got a BB gun for my 8th birthday.

jaywapti

Dont know for sure but i think it was one of my uncles 22s either a Rem M-510 or 511

JAY

Antonio

My .22 air rifle at 8. Months later fired my 1st. firearm: An 8mm. Gew 1888 rifle.

sakodude

Remington Model 6 (I think) single shot that my dad had converted from .32 rim fire to .32 S&W probably about age 6.

RugerFan

earlyagain said:

I can't remember

I don't remember either. Probably my dad's Ruger MK 1 Standard 

waipapa13

It may have been a .22 earlier but my first recollection is around 6 or so firing Poppa's 12 gauge Beretta pump-action. 
He got me to carry the shells out the back into the orchard and he tucked the stock under my arm and crouched behind me, shouldering it, we aimed at a big windfall grapefruit and splattered it. 
I was over the moon, I carried the hull around with me to school and everywhere until I left it in my pocket and it went through the wash, the old paper shells didn't much like water.

bullsi1911

Mine was a bolt action 12 Gauge (I think it was a Marlin, but not 100% sure).  It was at a cousin’s property in southwest Arkansas when I was probably 8 years old.  

It was awesome.  Totally hooked me on shooting

Rafterman

Nothing to add. C.R.S. 

10canyon53

I am going to have to go with "No clue".

Gila

Stevens .22 falling block

Linefinder

I still own it. A  mag fed bolt .22 RF that accepts S, L, or LR. My Dad said it was made by Springfield, but I'd have to look in my nephew's gun safe to verify that. It was ancient, and I mean ancient, when it was given to me. I shot a Maxwell House coffee  can with it all by myself in Mio, Michigan when I was probably 5 years old.

The next one I shot , probably a year later, was my Dad's 12 ga. Win 1400, with him propping me up from behind. Bumped me on the nose, a bit, but I'll never forget that 2x4 flying thru the air like a helicopter wing.

Mike

kansashunter

My dad had a Winchester pump and probably 22 short because they were cheaper. LR was saved for critters. I have it now but it won't stay closed when fired, I need to find a good gunsmith to work on it.  

DarryH

Daisy Model 95 BB gun, then a Remington 514 single shot .22, then a 20 gauge Mossberg single shot bolt action, then a Remington 870 Wingmaster 12 gauge, then a surplus WWII M1 Carbine, then a Winchester Model 70 in .257 Roberts, after that I shot too many to list. I am 59, stated shooting at age 4, and since we had few guns, I can easily recall which ones I shot in order of when I shot them.,

JunkCollector

Welcome DH 
That Winchester in 257 Roberts sounds like a good one.

Diver43

DarryH said:

Daisy Model 95 BB gun, then a Remington 514 single shot .22, then a 20 gauge Mossberg single shot bolt action, then a Remington 870 Wingmaster 12 gauge, then a surplus WWII M1 Carbine, then a Winchester Model 70 in .257 Roberts, after that I shot too many to list. I am 59, stated shooting at age 4, and since we had few guns, I can easily recall which ones I shot in order of when I shot them.,

Greetings and Welcome
Sounds like you had an early start to firearms that progressed right along as you got older.
Hope you stick around and share your experiences

GunNut

The first one the was mine was a Glenfield Model 25 bolt action .22 with the factory 4X 7/8” scope.  I was hooked!  Before that I shot others but this one was mine!

NN

Probably my Grandma's pump .22 or the external hammered 12 ga Dad had

shotgunshooter3

Sears model 41, which is a very nice single shot .22 made by Marlin. Still have it.