First New gun YOU bought?

[gbran]

What was the 1st new gun you bought? Not one given to you or bought for you. What was it, where did you buy it and when?

I had many firearms as a youngster, but the first gun I bought on my own was a Revelation 12ga shotgun I purchased at a Western Auto store in the mid 60's in Palmdale CA.

No hassle, no pain and I vaguely remember little if any paperwork.

 

[jnyork]

Winchester 67 Youth model, bought it at Spaldsbury's Sporting Goods and Saddlery, Lander, Wyoming in 1948. I was 9 years old. I bought it with my own money ($13.00 brand new) but my dad had to come down and carry it out for me. I still have it.

 

[h0ss]

My first gun, and the very first one i bought and paid for with my own money - straight cash, is a Kahr E9.

 

[rantingredneck]

First I bought for myself was a Ruger P89 on my 21st birthday. Of course it was bought with money given to me for my birthday .

First I bought with money I worked for and earned was a Russian SKS later that same year.

 

[Regolith]

Remington 870 Express, 12 gauge with a 28" barrel. That was last July. I was 21 at the time.

 

[hardhit777]

the first one that i bought myself was a Tula arms .22lr whisper bolt action. Nice shooting rifle for the money. less than $150 but a dang fine shooter.

HH

 

[gbran]

This is kewl. We have old timers and youngster's stories.

 

[MS .45]

First gun I bought was an EAA Windicator .357mag. Not a bad revolver for the price. Wish I still had it.

 

[bluez4u]

First: Ruger PK95DC

Last: Browning .40cal Hi-Power

 

[JesseL]

First gun I bought was a Ruger 10/22, but it wasn't new. I picked it up at a pawn shop for $130 when I was 18, in 1996. Talked the guy into throwing in a Butler Creek 25rd mag too.

The first new gun I bought was a Romanian Kalashniclone, from J&G Sales.

 

[bnkrazy]

A Savage 93R17-F. Bought it for plinking, squirelling, and groundhogging. I absolutely love it, but gave it to my wife 'cause she was complaining her collection was thinner than mine.

 

[-v-]

Ruger P95, bought it November of '06. Folks don't have a gun culture/are somewhat anti, so no hand-me-downs for me . But, I'm glad to see that a few trips to the range helped them to shift their persuasion to a more reasonable stance .

 

[VHinch]

Smith Sigma 40VE. This would have been 1999 or so, and I really didn't know any better at the time. After I bought the gun, I kept hearing how horrible the Sigmas were supposed to be, and I eventually traded it in on something else, even though I had never had a single issue with the weapon.

 

[Spyvie]

I bought a brand new Jennings J22 for $69 as I recall. Got it at Dave Cooks sporting goods in 1984 (I was 22). The original J22 with a metal safety wasn't a bad gun I guess, if you don't mind potmetal junk. I remember my heart was pounding a little as I waked out to my truck from the mall... I had owned hunting rifles since I was a little kid but now I had a real HANDGUN!

 

[mike724]

I bought a .36 BP pistol when I was 20 YO in NYS. I bought another BP in .44 that year, and when i moved to Florida in '77, I bought a Ruger MkI, and and a Dan Wesson .357. I sill own the Ruger MkI.

 

[hankdatank1362]

Firestorm 1911 .45ACP - $300, circa 2004

Accurate and would feed anything. Soon learned that you get what you pay for in the world of 1911s. It literally fell apart in my hands one day while shooting it in the woods. If it weren't for that loose plunger tube, I'd probably still have it.

 

[jgo296]

my first was a ruger 10/22 at 18 which was also 1996 i bout new and think it was $130 back then

 

[MKEITH]

A Savage 110 in 30-06from Dick's Sporting Goods. I was 25.

 

[eventer289]

First gun I bought with my own money was a Ruger 10/22.

 

[Harpo]

Browning BL22 rifle, around 1968 at a hardware store. I spent weeks drooling over catalogs (remember paper catalogs?), and decided on this one. My dad brought me to the store, and I made my selection. The salesman got one from the backroom, and when he unwrapped it to show us, it had a stock with beautiful swirled grain, unlike the straight grain that model was supposed to have. I can still see it there, brown paper pushed aside, all shiny and new. When he saw it, the salesman wanted to get another, but we insisted and he reluctantly sold it to us.

Spent a happy childhood - and early adulthood - shooting that rifle. Short throw lever, and I could crank off the shots at twice the speed of my buddies with their Marlins. Dead accurate, too... Wish I still had it.

Harpo

 

[Spyvie]

remember paper catalogs

I can't tell you how much time I spent with the old Radio Shack catalogs.

 

[The Lone Haranguer]

Ruger Security-Six, c. 1983 or '84, from Monkey Wards (Montgomery Ward).

 

[yhtomit]

First gun I bought was at one of the Saxen gun shows in Austin, Texas -- even though I was something over 20 (23? That would make it ten years ago, seems about right), family-inculcated inhibitions had stopped me from buying one earlier, despite an abiding interest in all things gun.

I got a Ruger 22/45, a gun I'd already been thinking about. I wanted a .22, in stainless, with a bull-barrel and a 1911-type grip angle -- so the 22/45 is therefore the right gun for me It's the only .22 pistol I have, and I've been well pleased with it.

That quickly led to a Browning 9mm, and a few more since, and now to reloading .45, with the intent to more cheaply feed three different guns

I'm not the first to notice it, but the problem with buying any *particular* gun is the desire it seems to stimulate (in many people, not everyone, but I'm among the afflicted) to buy one more, and one more ... now, the brass I collect turns into a weird incentive system. "Gee, with a few hundred pieces of .380 brass, shouldn't I really have an NAA Guardian to make use of it? Isn't it wasteful and therefore undesirable to simply let it lay fallow?"

timothy

 

[Texpatriate]

12 ga. Benelli Nova

Bought it at Galyan's in Frisco, TX (now Dick's), sometime after 9/11/2001, but before I moved our family to Baton Rouge where we had an active serial killer on the loose. Needless to say, my personal alert level was at the "heightened" stage.

There have been many others since.

 

[tuck2]

After working all summer I had the cash to purchase a Winchester Mdl 70 270 Win the fall of 1952. It cost about $130 . I still have the rifle. The store is closed where I got the rifle.