Can you remember your first gun purchase??

[Bigdog]

First gun I actually bought myself was a Spanish Airforce Mauser, along with a cap&ball .44 Colt 1851 Navy repro revolver - from a K-mart!  1976, and I was home from USAF bootcamp, just before going to my first duty station - 115 miles from home.  I wanted a cheap "deer rifle", and K-mart had a bunch of these old Mausers (bubba'd stocks, "sporters", right.) - I paid $47 for it.
Twentyeight years later, I still have both guns.  I put the Mauser into a Brazil '08 stock (shortened, but at least it looks "military" now).
The ol' 1851 Navy revolver is broken, and a display piece now.  Too many hot loads back in my young and stupid days . . .  :wink:

[hillbill]

late 70's iwas pretty yung. wanted my own 22. did my research, worked and saved the money. marlin golden 39a, 104$ at the walmart in neosho mo. highest dollar 22 in the store at that time. loved that gun, shot it for years. made shots with it that still boggle my mind. traded it in on my first real motersickle. 81 shovel harley.i keep tellin myself it was wore out but id like to have it back! lol

[ratherbefishin]

I sure can- a Lee Enfield #1 mk 3 in full wood.Believe it or not they had them advertised in the sears catalogues - $8.
 I was  13 years old  and my dad gave it to me with the admonition that the gun could represent some very happy times for us both or I might bitterly regret the day he gave it to me- for it would kill a man as easily as a deer if I didn't handle it properly, and whatever it was was entirely up to me.
 I shot my first deer with it on a hunting trip with him that fall, and we did indeed share many trips together.Funny enough, he would sometimes pull up a young pine  and take it home to plant as a memory.The pines are taller than the house now,and my dad only walks besides me in my memories now.But- the legacy of a good dad has been passed on , and I have a young grandson now, he's too young to hunt yet, but that won;t be long, the years seem to go by faster now.

[NYH1]

The first gun "I" purchased was a Remington model 700 "Classic" chambered in 25-06 Rem. A few years later I traded it in on a new Remington 700 "Classic" chambered in 280 Rem. I wish I kept the 25-06 but at the time I didn't have the money so I had to trade it in!  I would rather have the 280 Rem over the 25-06 so it worked out good I guess! :grin:

[target22]

The first gun I purchased was a used 12ga pump with adjustable choke when I was a young teen. Sears Ted Williams special. Got many partidge and pheasant with it, a few rabbit and my first deer. I still have it and my oldest son uses it now.