First gun to shoot with.

[doninnh]

Well: The first gun I got to shoot at the age of five was win 1904 youth 22 rifle, It fit a little person so well and was so simple. My Farther used to take me and my cousins shooting in the local sand pits. I think to me it was perfect to be a first shooter I can only regret losing it in a house fire. Have a nice day Don K

[sharps4590]

Other than it being a 22 that was too long for a 5 year old, I have no idea.

Interesting how memories come flooding back when a subject is broached.  I don't remember the actual first rifle I fired, other than it was a 22.  I do distinctly remember and, have pictorial evidence for, the first rifle that was actually mine.  For the Christmas I was 5 years old Mom & Dad gave me a J.C. Higgins, single shot, (no magazine), bolt action 22.  It had to be cocked by pulling back the cocking piece and I was probably 6 or 7 before cocking and de-cocking became easy.  That would have been 1958.

[bigbrowndog]

Can’t recall exactly, but first I can recall was Anschutz small bore prone rifles used for NRA Jr. program, then it was Ithaca 49 lever action martini type single shot, it’s in the safe.

Trapr

[jeffh]

Five, six years old? I wasn't in school yet, so it must have been five.

Winchester Model 12, 12 gauge. Knocked one of my teeth loose, but I had a few pellets on that old circular chart recorder paper we used for a target.

My ol' man wasn't known for being one to let common sense deter good ol' fashioned fun.

Come to think of it, my first taste of moonshine was that same year, but that was HIS ol' man who administered THAT rite of passage.

[potatojudge]

We started with a Stevens Favorite takedown. With 22 short CB no earmuffs needed, and it's as safe a gun for a beginner as you'd ever hope for. It's not an ultralight with the octagon barrel, but it is petite.

[leadhound]

Ted Williams model 3T, was a rebranded Winchester 190 sold by Sears. My old man traded an aluminum ladder for it late 70's maybe early 80's. Was missing the bolt handle got replaced with a grease zerk. Would shoot 22 shorts, longs and long rifles, mixed and of different ratings. Never bobbled or missed a beat. Unfortunately was stolen along with a handful of others he had. He wasn't much into guns, just tools and each had a purpose.

[hounddogman]

Feb 18, 2024 20:38:56 GMT -5 potatojudge said:

We started with a Stevens Favorite takedown. With 22 short CB no earmuffs needed, and it's as safe a gun for a beginner as you'd ever hope for. It's not an ultralight with the octagon barrel, but it is petite.

Me too .  A old Steven's  favorite but it was rebarreled with a remington 513T match master barrel. Still have it. Shot a lot of CB Caps in it over the years but right now it's zeroed CCI quiets .

[lwfpdchief]

REM #3 rolling block .22. I still have this gun. It has been passed down to the oldest male child since it was purchased new by my great great grandfather. I have three daughters one of which has given me a grandson but sadly he is the city slicker type. If my youngest daughter has kids. Just maybe

[bamagreg]

Mine was an old Stevens 410 shotgun that was my Grandfather's (I still have it). I was about 7-8 years old so around 1968 or 1969. Our cat learned that anytime a shotgun went off a bird would magically fall out of a tree

[brant]

Ruger bearcat and marlin 39 on the same day. 4 or 5 years old. I had to take a terrible tasting medicine and the dr changed it to something that was easier to go down. Pop chunked the bottle in the pond and set up a shooting table for my first lesson. I didn’t hit it but he did for me. I still have both guns.

[sharps4590]

Feb 19, 2024 15:08:12 GMT -5 brant said:

Ruger bearcat and marlin 39 on the same day. 4 or 5 years old. I had to take a terrible tasting medicine and the dr changed it to something that was easier to go down. Pop chunked the bottle in the pond and set up a shooting table for my first lesson. I didn’t hit it but he did for me. I still have both guns.

Wasn't that the day...shooting bottles floating on the pond.  Along with most folks, there's no way I'd do that today.  Now I WOULD plink at Gum tree balls floating down the creek, from a high bank.  That's still fun!

[cable]

i was 2 1/2 yrs old. 22 single shot Stevens Junior, was a small 'youth gun', but still i had to put the stock under my armpit. same gun my father first fired.







its in my safe and my son will keep it

[squawberryman]

At my buddy Rob's we throw Ritz crackers upstream (crystal clear) at point A, Walk to the bench at point B, sit and shoot thee crackers to pieces, then shoot the bream that came to eat.

[wendigo]

My first wasn't a rifle, if I recall correctly it was a .32 Beretta that my granddad always had on him, I was about 7. Grandpa evidently favored something small on hand all the time, with something with more punch not too far away. I remember it being the Beretta and a Colt .38 Super, but back in the '30's when my dad was little I was told that the combo was a Mauser 1914 and a "S&W .44". Sure would like to know what the Smith was.

[kevshell]

I remember mine vividly. A Crossman 1400 .22 pump air rifle like this one. I put thousands of rounds through it. It was a hand me down from my dad and was the gateway drug to everything else. My first rifle was my granddads pre64 70 270. My stepdad got me into revolvers with his pre29 44. My dad had a Colt Trooper MKIII that I did not shoot well. But I scratched the itch with that pump air rifle. Part of me would like another but a .22 filled with shorts or "quiet" loads is hard to beat for quiet fun.