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Offline Danegeld

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« on: March 09, 2006, 02:32:57 PM »
I'm sure this has been asked before but I was just wondering what the first REAL gun each of you ever owned.  As a youngster, teenager, or adult it doesn't matter.  I'm not talking about a pellet, air, or BB gun.  I'm talking about the real gunpowder deal :)

Mine was a Winchester Model 60A .22, I got at 8 or 9 and I still have it.

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« Reply #1 on: March 09, 2006, 03:39:41 PM »
870 wingmaster, 15yrs for christmas.   KN
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« Reply #2 on: March 09, 2006, 04:02:43 PM »
When I turned 15 my parents decided I was old enough to hunt with friends of theirs, neither of my Parents hunt.  I was given my Grandfathers L.C. Smith 20 guage and it is still my favorite firearm.

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« Reply #3 on: March 09, 2006, 04:10:05 PM »
my dad bought me a remington 511 scoremaster when i was in 6th grade, i still have it and it is accurate as ever.

he bought me an 870 express 20 gauge when i was 16, a rite of passage in my family..but it didn't fit me well at all...and i was foolish enough to sell it at a gunshow to buy a mossberg 9200 with fancy walnut that i just had to have.

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« Reply #4 on: March 09, 2006, 04:39:45 PM »
Bought a 1891 Argentine mauser from a neighbor when I was about 16 for $35.  Of course this was the mid 60s and the previous owner had bought it for about $15 and had it sporterized by a gunsmith.  I still have it, but its no longer a 7.65 Argentine.  Had it rebarreled.
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« Reply #5 on: March 10, 2006, 01:28:46 AM »
Bolt action Remington .22.   If there was ever a "learning" gun that was it.
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« Reply #6 on: March 10, 2006, 02:29:12 AM »
I got an Ithaca .410 single-shot shotgun when I was about 11 or 12.  It opened w/ a lever like a Winchester 94.  I killed a lot of squirrels and rabbits with that gun.  I would like to have given it to my son when he's old enough.  My Dad sold it when I was in college 20 years ago--thanks Dad!

I got a Remington 1100 12ga when I turned sixteen.
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« Reply #7 on: March 10, 2006, 03:09:36 PM »
1971 I bought a Ithaca model 37 pump 2 3/4 inch 12 gauge. I killed alot of game with it. I hunted birds, squirrels, rabbits, deer. If it live in a pennsylvinia woods I hunted it.

I was never very good with it though. When my son came along he tried hunting with it and never once complained about missing. He had a chance to try a double barrel twelve gauge and started droping birds like they were in a remote control. I used the gun for about 33 years traded it in on a new Berretta. I got more for the gun that I paid for it new and my son hits more birds that I do.

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« Reply #8 on: March 11, 2006, 06:40:41 AM »
1978, I was 12 years old. Dad and I went to Reds Trading Post in Twin Falls, ID to get my first rifle a .22, We picked out a marlin 39-A and layed it away.

I mowed lawns all that next summer to pay it of, by the time I had the money to get it out of lay-a-way i had changed my mind and decited to get a Winchester 9422 instead.

I was hell on the rock chuck population over the next few years, not to mention the several rabbits that were brought home for the pot during the winters.

I still have it, and both of my boys each have one too. I could not beleave it when Winchester dropped it from production a couple of years ago. Now Winchesters gone too, how sad.
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« Reply #9 on: March 12, 2006, 06:35:25 AM »
A Savage model 25 with a .22 on top and a 410 on the bottom.  I got it for Christmas when I was 15.  I don’t know how many thousands of .22 shorts I put through that gun over the years.  Both the front and the rear sights fell off it but by that time I had shot it so often that I just instinctively pointed and shot.  It has a hairline crack in the stock where I slipped and dropped it down a frozen solid hillside once upon a time. This was before they had scope grooves on the gun so I had a gunsmith weld one on the top of the .22 barrel.  I still have the gun today. It now has a red dot scope on it and it is the gun I usually take squirrel hunting.
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« Reply #10 on: March 12, 2006, 01:39:19 PM »
My Dad won a browning BL22 trap shooting. He gave it to me when I was 12 or 13.
  it was my most prized possession for years and years. A good quality lever action, just like all the western tv shows and a deadly Jackrabbit killin' gun.

  My fondest memories are of saving up chore money to buy a brick of .22 shells and taking a walk south of town along the creek with a mighty .22 in hand I felt like karamojo bell in wildest africa or Jim Corbett in india.

  Some years later My dad's house caught on fire. Both of us sure miss that .22
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« Reply #11 on: March 12, 2006, 09:58:13 PM »
when i was 3 years old my dad bought me a .22 chipmunk single shot bolt action(i guess my mom was pretty mad about that one) . when i was a little kid my dad would let me take it when we went deer hunting. i wasnt old enough to kill deer so my dad let me shoot at snakes....i dont think i ever hit one..heh heh. anyway i still have it at my dads house. when i turned 12 my dad got me a savage lever action in .308. i still have that one too, but i havent shot it in years.
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« Reply #12 on: March 13, 2006, 02:27:49 AM »
A little single shot bolt action .22.  There was no Jackrabbit in W. Texas that was safe back then. :D

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« Reply #13 on: March 14, 2006, 06:25:49 PM »
my grandfathers springfield sxs 12ga.  when my dad saw i was serious, and that the gun was way too big for me he bought me an ithica single shot 20ga (lever reak open - forgot the model no).
when my grandmother no longer hunted i inherited her model 37 20ga. still the shotgun i shoot the best.
from there it expended progressively.
now have over 270 guns.
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« Reply #14 on: March 19, 2006, 05:07:44 PM »
It would be a Savage Model 94 single shot 12ga for me. It belonged to my father & was made between 1940-1950. The Stock & forearm are made of a nylon type plastic as there was a wood shortage at that time due to the war.
I still own this gun and it is in fireable condition.
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« Reply #15 on: March 24, 2006, 06:56:10 PM »
When I was 8 years old, my uncle showed up at our house with a like new Savage 410/22 over/under he had purchased for $40.  
 I was elated, my mother was not...........Understatement!
 Up until that time I had been relegated to following along behind the real hunters with a lowly slingshot. My father could stand the pestering no longer after a few days and took me on my first real squirrel hunt. We hadn't walked more than a hundred yards when I spied movement in a tree well ahead and recognised a squirrel. I whispered to my father but he could not see it so he told me to go shoot it. Well I slipped through the brush up to the area and there was part of an old log cabin still standing overgrown with forest. After a few moments of quietly looking my father began to motion for me to return when I noticed an old fox squirrel crouched down peaking at me from the corner of the roof. I slowly raised my 410 and settled the rifle sights on the old sqirrels nose and squeezed the trigger. BOOM!  The old squirrel rolled off the roof and hit the ground with a thud. I quickly reloaded, picked up my first squirrel and put him in my game pouch. The first of four that day. I would have to say, my hero was proud of me that day. If I try real hard, I can still smell the burnt powder.


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« Reply #16 on: March 25, 2006, 05:10:43 PM »
My first gun was an old 20 gauge Iver Johnson (Champion) single shot. It was my grandfathers gun he gave it to my uncle for his first gun then it went to my dad for his first then to me. Now it is my sons. Man that gun has killed a lot of squirrels, rabbits.
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« Reply #17 on: March 25, 2006, 07:19:59 PM »
Beside the .22's that were everyones. in the family,, My first was a Marlin 336..30/.30. it was twenty years young when I got it in 1981. I am trying to get it back ,, as I sold it to a friend to buy a stupid motor bike, He still has it.. or at least his brother has it.. I want it back so bad. he never seems to know exactly wher it is..
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