Have you still got your first gun ?

[Sgt Sourdough]

I still have the 22 that dad and mom gave me for christmas 22 years  a go.

[Evil One]

My first rifle got stolen in a home burglary when I was still a kid in school.
Marlin model 60.
I still have my first pistol.
Star in .38 super.


Jim

[Buffalow Red]

Remington B552 semi auto 22 rifle got new in 1971 still a good shooter

[Dead Eye Dave]

My first pistol was a vintage Walther P38 that my father in law brought over from Germany after the war.  Still have it and it shoots fine. 

[Tommy tornado]

I still have my Ruger 10/22, I got for X-mas when I was 12.  Just finally put a scope on it.

[Fiddler Green]

Yes! As many guns as I've bought and sold, over the years, I've still got that Savage Model 66 that I bought for $19 dollars in 1966. I paid $4 more to get the version with the Manlicher stock.

I rode the bus over to Mel Cotton's Sporting Goods in San Jose and rode the bus home with it in the box (try doing that today!). I lied about my age, as I was only 15 and you needed to be 16 to buy a gun.

[Relentless Renegade]

Yep, my dad got me a used H&R topper 410 single shot. $20.00 1976

[Deadeye Don]

Yes.   My first gun is ................. 2 years old and I still have it!   

[Steel Horse Bailey]

Yes.   My first gun is ................. 2 years old and I still have it!   

You're doing a good job of making up for lost time, Don. 


Will you be at this month's SMVS shoot?  Hope to see you then.

Jeff

[Daniel Nighteyes]

Yup.  My father brought it home from the European Theatre.  It's a La Francaise Modele 1921, a .22 rimfire training rifle that looks a lot like a Lebel.  Still looks good, but it spits burning powder with every shot, so I don't shoot it anymore.

[kurt250]

yes, was my grandfathers. he was a postman on the r.p.o. (thats the rail post office) they required all crewman to be armed, his was a s&w model ten in 38 spl. he was issued it when he joined the p.o. he said it was used when he got it. he carried that pistol from 1930 to 1961.when he retired. the postmaster told him to keep it. he would lose it in the paperwork. so he did. he gave it to me in 1967. the year i graduatedfrom high school. it has very little wear except were it stuck out of the houlster. the grip on the right is worn smooth from his arm rubbing aginest it. the rest still has some of the blueing. he said in the 31 years he carried it he never fired it.i have many times. will always keep it. he said he lost the houlster that was issued with it. to bad, i would have liked to had everything with it.  kurt250

[Leo Tanner]

I have one of the first two guns I ever shot.  It's an old Winchester single shot 22 LR that my wife aquired before she was my wife.  The other was a Mauser action 30.06 that I didn't get along with too well and let go.
     I still have all the guns that were ever registered in my name.  The first is a Marlin 336 followed by a .357 Old Model Vaquero, a Ruger 10/22 and a Marlin 1895 in .357.  I don't miss the Alexandria Mouser a bit.

     Did someone here say they still had a Marlin Model 39?  The breakdown .22?  Yer a lucky guy.  I wouldn't of got rid of that one either.

     Also in this thread I see I have a long lost relative name a Brigid.  Good ta know I aint the only one in the family that stuck with the guns


Leo

[Steel Horse Bailey]

Leo said:

" Did someone here say they still had a Marlin Model 39?  The breakdown .22?"


I do.  And I won't part with it.

Mine is a particular model that Marlin only made for a couple years in the mid-late 1960s; the Golden 39A Mountie.

I still have the original takedown screw piece, but in the mid 1970s I changed it with a part that made it into a saddle-ring carbine.  As if I actually need it for a saddle!


But it looks cool and still shoots like a million bucks!  I also put one of the later version front sight covers on it and also put a squared lever on it.  But I can put it back to original in about 60 seconds.

[Leo Tanner]

Leo said:

" Did someone here say they still had a Marlin Model 39?  The breakdown .22?"


I do.  And I won't part with it.

Mine is a particular model that Marlin only made for a couple years in the mid-late 1960s; the Golden 39A Mountie.

I still have the original takedown screw piece, but in the mid 1970s I changed it with a part that made it into a saddle-ring carbine.  As if I actually need it for a saddle!


But it looks cool and still shoots like a million bucks!  I also put one of the later version front sight covers on it and also put a squared lever on it.  But I can put it back to original in about 60 seconds.

That's what's great about em.  The 39 A was a direct decendent of the rifle Annie Oakley used in Buffalo Bill's show.  From what I've heard, once they moved the loading port directly to the magazine it was a very user friendly weapon.  I got a soft spot fer Marlins and hope to get one some day, especially with the price of ammo going up.  I get jelous when my son has a full days worth of ammo fer 10 bucks an I burn though all the center fire in an hour.  I'll take one of them and a Ruger Mark 1 for plinkin when times are lean.  (Like now).


Leo

[Pinto Jim]

sadly my  old daisy pump is long gone , that i got when i was 5 or so , but I still have  then single shot Winchester boys rifle and H&R .410 I got when i was 8

[Wild Billy Potts]

My mom bought me a H&R 12 ga topper 88 back in '81. Still got it. I also inherited my grandfathers Remington 24 recently. It's is a first year of manufacture specimen.

[oldCop]

Still have my J.C. Higgins single-shot .22 I got for my 12th birthday in 1954.

[Major E A Sterner]

Leo, I have 2 Marlin 39's and I didn't pay over $100 for either of them...

[Leo Tanner]

Leo, I have 2 Marlin 39's and I didn't pay over $100 for either of them...

Wiseguy

[Montana Slim]

I like hearing these stories..makes ya feel good......& I'll share mine..

My dad gave me the 1906 Winchester pump .22 he "learned" me to shoot with a few years ago. I was probably 5-6 yrs old when I first fired it.  I had "borrowed" the rifle and had the barrel lined...when I returned it to my dad I told him the expense was "on-me"..he said "thanks" and then gifted the rifle to me so my sone could learn to shoot with it...and it will  be his one day.

Regards,
Slim