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What was your first centerfire handgun?

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Mine was a little Grendel .380 i think i found in a gunshop in SD in my youth (1990, at 21 yo). It was affordable, cause at the time i was in college and working at either a grocery store or delivering pizza. It wasnt pleasant to shoot but it was my first handgun. I think I remember that it didn't have a mag, you had to load it from the top. Also if i remember right i didnt have it long, i think i sold it to buy an SKS. I wonder if there's very many out there still? What were your first centerfire?

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I had to think on that one. I know my first... first two... rimfire pistols... but I had to think about my first centerfire.

I would have to say it was my 6" S&W 57, .41MAG, bought it off my best friend when he went to get married, he thought 'responsible' people didn't have things like motorcycles, guns, and 4-wheel drives, and sold everything. Idiot.
 
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Mine was a little Grendel .380 i think i found in a gunshop in SD in my youth (1990, at 21 yo). It was affordable, cause at the time i was in college and working at either a grocery store or delivering pizza. It wasnt pleasant to shoot but it was my first handgun. I think I remember that it didn't have a mag, you had to load it from the top. Also if i remember right i didnt have it long, i think i sold it to buy an SKS. I wonder if there's very many out there still? What were your first centerfire?

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A poly framed top loader, that's a cool piece of pocket gun history. :cool:
 
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I traded my Super Single Six for it, knowing nothing about gun values at the time. This stands as the single absolute worse deal I ever made. The second worse was trading a pinned and recessed 4" S&W 19-3 for a Rossi .38 snubby, because I needed something more compact.

I'm thankful I've since become educated, but those two guns are the ones I want back the most.

Josh
 
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Mine was a little Grendel .380 i think i found in a gunshop in SD in my youth (1990, at 21 yo). It was affordable, cause at the time i was in college and working at either a grocery store or delivering pizza. It wasnt pleasant to shoot but it was my first handgun. I think I remember that it didn't have a mag, you had to load it from the top. Also if i remember right i didnt have it long, i think i sold it to buy an SKS. I wonder if there's very many out there still? What were your first centerfire?

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Cool choice- Not having a inadvertently ejectable magazine is feature worth discussion on a compact pocket gun, even today. Did it load with a stripper clip?
 
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An early model Ruger P85. Not my favorite Ruger. When I acquired a Sig 226 a few years later I did a straight trade with the Ruger for a Lyman Great Plains Rifle in .54.
 
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