When and what age did you buy your first gun?

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A 16ga Ithaca M37, S/N 98969 (don't ask me how I remember it) at age 14. Traded it when I was 23 or so.
 
In 1985, at 23 years old, I bought my first house and a new Ruger Mark II target .22lr. Same year a guy at work needed some cash and sold me his Marlin Glenfield 30-30 with a 4X Redfield scope, for $50.00.
Still have both and they shoot like the day I got them.
 
In 1972 I bought a Colt Diamondback .38 special. (I was 22 yrs old) Picked up a Boita 12 ga. O/U two years later. About 1977 I bought a k98 Mauser...for a dollar. I've brought a few more home since then.

Mark
 
Let's see, that was a long time ago, about 1954 if memory serves me. It was a JC Higgins 22 bolt rifle with a tube magazine. I think I was about 14 at the time. The tube mag got destroyed, but I still have the rifle.

First hand gun was about 1957/58 at age 15 or 16. A Colt Frontier Scout Buntline Special in 22 mag and I still have it too, but it only has a 4 1/2" bbl now.
 
First gun 1983 went in halves with my dad on my first gun a Ruger Standard at the ripe age of 11. It served as home security in my dads sock drawer, and was my carry piece around the farm for rattle snake and varmit control. Still running strong.
 
I bought my first gun about 3 weeks after I turned 18. It was a Mosin Nagant from Big 5.
 
Bought my first firearm? IIRC, I was 14.
A buddy sold me a Mossberg M44 with a Weaver B4 scope and a 'sporterized' Mosin: $15 for both. That was a long long time ago.
That old M44 accounted for the premature demise of many a woodchuck in my youth.
 
Bought first rifle 1974 @ 18yo. A mossberg 341 .22. first pistol in 1977 @ 21. A Ruger .22 single six, came with a .22 mag cylinder. These were the first I bought, had several given to me by my father starting at age 6.
 
A Remington Model 514 .22 single shot, bolt action rifle. Got it when I was 11 or 12 (still have it). And, "purchased" it with S & H green stamps at the now long gone, Rochester, NY redemption center ! :) No ID's, background checks, nothing. Just pointed to the rifle in the catalog, handed them a whole bunch of stamp books, they retrieved the rifle from the back, handed it to me, and Dad and I were out the door. My, how things have changed ...
 
I purchased my own first gun at age 16 (a 243 rifle) after completing my first summer job between school years. (My Dad helped me purchase a 22 rifle at age 14.) I could not even drive to work then myself and had to get rides. I hitch hiked home many times from work after putting in a couple hours of OT. Times have changed.
 
ruger standard model 22 pistol used with holster and spare mag for $30 it was 1959 I was 8. Already had a 22 rifle that was a hand me down and a benjamin pump pellet gun (gift) next was a mossberg bolt action 410 at about 10 years old.
 
I remember working all summer in the ginseng gardens at 14. Dad took me up to Bill's House of Guns in Merrill WI. Was intending to get a Rem 700 in .270, but they had the Sako A5 on sale for almost the same money ($379 I think - usually about double that) so that's the one I got. Still have it, and intend to until I pass it to the next generation.

Man I wish I could still buy those for under $400..........
 
I was 7 when I got a single shot .22 from my dad first one I paid for? about 20 .357 mag
 
at age 12, mossberg 500. that was 9 years ago. my collection has been growing since.
 
My ex gf gave me walther 9mm when I was 20 but I picked up a ruger sp101 .357 right after I got my ccw permit at age 21. Then I got a springfield armory xd.40 a week later and gave the ruger to my dad.
 
1976 - just old enough to buy a Ruger Single-Six, .22 - .22MAG 200th anniversary addition. Not old enough a couple of years later to know I shouldn't have traded it off. I still miss it.
 
Sounds like a lot of us here by the time we were at least junior high or high school age earned our own money and purchased our own first new fire arms.
A good sign.:)
 
There never was a need. I grew up in the armoury and Dad always told me it was all mine, but it wasn't really till three years ago. He symbolically turned over the keys to me and now it is mine.
 
Well, I was pumping gas, so I needed some firepower. At first I used a Crosman .357 pellet gun. It was a big step up to my first gun, a llama .22 1911. lol. In those days, there was no net to warn of underpowered carry guns. Then a brand new High standard .22 mag snubby, leading to a new mossy 500. Late 70's
 
Around age 10. More years ago than I care to think about. Smith & Wesson Victory Model .38 Special. My father was the straw buyer...and the dealer knew it. I mowed yards to earn the money. It cost 20 bucks at Wilson-Pleasants hardware in Winston-Salem, NC. They threw in a box of SuperX 158 lead RN to cinch the deal. I charged my friends a dime a round to shoot it, and made enough money to keep me in ammo for a long time...until the old man caught me and put me outta business.

He bought a used press...dies...and made a single cavity bullet mould in the tool and die shop at Western Electric. Primers were a quarter a tray, and 2 dollars a brick. Bullseye powder was 3 bucks a pound. More yards to mow and leaves to rake to earn the money to buy the components. I guess he figured that if he could keep me busy, he could keep me outta trouble.

I cut my price to 7 cents...
 
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