The first gun you ever shot

[Johnny_Come_Lately]

The first I ever shot was a bolt action .22. I don't know what model as it was stolen more than 30 years ago.

Anyway, as a very young lad about 5 or 6 years of age, I remember my Pawpaw taking me behind his house by the swamp. Resting the rifle in the fence, I would shoot at rusted cans in his trash burn pile.

 

[Deus Machina]

A .22LR Luger. My dad still has it.

 

[loadedround]

Winchester 67 when I was around14.

 

[BADUNAME37]

A semi-auto .22 rimfire.

 

[BaltimoreBoy]

Montgomery Wards 12 ga. shotgun - bolt action.

 

[hardluk1]

colt huntsman with a 6" barrel when 6 years old.

 

[TMA-1]

A .22 bolt-action with a 10-shot magazine and peep sights. I don't remember the model. I was 16 and trying out for the Navy JROTC rifle team. Turns out I was better at drilling with a rifle than firing one.

30 years later, and my marksmanship is much improved. However, I'm quite sure that if I try to spin one, I'll break all my fingers.

 

[bigfatdave]

It would have been either an AR7 or a Ruger mkI/II, can't remember which was first but it was surely one of those.

Those guns are long gone from the my parent's possession, but I've replaced them with a mkIII for myself and one for the wife (internals upgraded and worthless lawyer junk deleted) and a Henry rendition of the survival rifle that actually works.

 

[bottom shelf]

A bolt action .22lr rifle. Happened at summer camp when I was 11.

 

[Axel Larson]

A 357 single action. I was 14 and did not know as much as I do now about firearms, so I could not tell you the exact brand or model.

 

[50 cal]

Traditions pioneer 50 cal muzzle loader when I was 5 or 6. Still have it.

 

[LongTimeGone]

When I was 7 in 1960 with grandpa's Remington .22 bolt action with tubular mag. My uncle still has it. I could walk to the hardware store and get a box of 50 .22lr for 75 (iirc) cents.

 

[wheelgun6T9]

First Gun

The first one i ever fired was a 22LR bolt - my dad's Marlin Model 81. I was about 8. He gave it to me when I was an early teen and I still have it. It's in as good shape now as it was then. I'm 42 now.

 

[Redneck with a 40]

A Remington Nylon 66, that's a fun little rifle. My dad still has it.

 

[clance]

I think I was 7 or 8 when my dad let me shoot my first gun after pestering him to do so. Of course I was to small to actually hold it by myself, but I placed the butt of the stock up to my shoulder and stretch to reach for the trigger.

The gun was a M1 Grand, never shot a 30-06 since cause of that experience.

 

[Sky]

First gun was BB gun when around age 5 or six.....Don't shoot the live stock was the stern warning.....bugged dad like forever to shoot his 16 gage and finally he let me try it when I was a tad bit older. It knocked me off my feet and gave me a great bruise...I deserved it....couple of years later it was my Dove hunting, horse riding, have no fear do everything gun. Never did have much ammo for it and was so happy when I finally got a single shot rolling block .22......happiness was cheap ammo.

 

[jiminhobesound]

A .22 bolt action, single shot, model unknown. Had to pull bolt slow to prevent ejecto.r coming out. Wrist of stock cracked and taped. Front sight offset and not moveable. I learn to shoot it quite well on barn rats and fox squirrels. I was 5 years old.

 

[MedWheeler]

Other than air rifles, my first was a Winchester M190, a .22LR semi-auto rifle. It was not until I was eighteen years old; I grew up with a very gun-shy mother. Her third husband, to whom she married when I was 16, finally convinced her to let him sell me that gun and teach me to shoot and care for it (I let his son have it when my stepdad died less than a year later.)

 

[ColtPythonElite]

Colt Colteer rifle when I was about 5...My dad had recently bought it and let me shoot at a few cans. Nearly 40 years later, he still has it and it still looks new. I doubt if he's shot in in the past 25 years.

 

[Carter]

A single shot 20ga shotgun at a friends house that was way older than I was. Had an itch for firearms ever since. I was probably 19 at the time. Never shot a gun before then.

2 years later my gf's brother took me shooting and the itch got too strong for me to fight off.

 

[FIVETWOSEVEN]

I believe I was 4.

 

[LensWork]

IIRC it was a Sears Ted Williams single-shot 20 ga.

 

[451 Detonics]

Winchester Model 67 Boys Rifle, I was probably about 5 years old. Shot that rifle for many years.

 

[jleyring]

Marlin bolt action .22LR My father still has it today

 

[Big_John1961]

M16A1 in Basic Training. I was 20.