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Posted: 5/31/2003 3:08:11 PM EDT
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I've been around firearms sense I was born [baby] (thanks dad!) always had dads to shoot, and my brother-in-laws who is a sheriff deputy.
Ruger 10/22...... Got if for my 10th b-day.... I had plenty of high powered (Sheridan, Beemans) pellet rifles up until that point. But this was my first 'real' gun of my own. At 16 when most where excited about getting thier drivers license, I saved my money after a summer of working and bought a Norinco AK (cost me $448 NIB), my sister had to sign for it. Had enough money left over and bought a S & W 422 .22 cal pistol a few weeks later at a gun show (when gun show where gun shows, no waiting period then) dad had to sign for that! Also had sis sign for a Taurus 669 .357 mag with a 6" barrel the following summer.... |
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Posted: 5/31/2003 3:14:18 PM EDT
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Marlin Model 60
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Posted: 5/31/2003 3:21:25 PM EDT
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A Ruger 10/22. I used to shoot Chipmunks after school with it. I still have it somewhere and boy is that think worn out.
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Posted: 5/31/2003 3:24:34 PM EDT
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Bushmaster XM15-A3 in May 2002.
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Posted: 5/31/2003 3:45:12 PM EDT
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Got my first two guns when I turned 18 two weeks ago.
Kimber Custom Target II Ruger 10/22 w/ a 4x Simmons scope [:)] |
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Posted: 5/31/2003 4:01:39 PM EDT
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My first was a used Winchester Model 12 (12 gauge) for Christmas in 1979.I was 14 way back then. My first handgun was a year later, a S&W Model 19 with a six inch barrel. The first one I was able to buy on my own was a Colt Combat Commander in satin nickle. I lost them all in a divorce in 1988. I wish I had those three back (among others).
S/F Flyingrhino |
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Posted: 5/31/2003 6:21:46 PM EDT
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My first gun I owned was a 45 auto, Colt Gov't model, series 80. Standard blued pistol. I got it at Walmart in 1985, back when they were cleaning out their stock.
Great gun still with me. Many rounds have been thru that gun. |
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Posted: 5/31/2003 6:39:15 PM EDT
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winchester 1300 defender, early 90's, when i was about to move to a loft in the city of detroit. shortly thereafter i went to my work's summer picnic at a hunt club and shot skeet. first time i'd ever shot a real gun. think i got around 18 out of 24 or whatever the total count is. my employer pronounced me "fit to live in detroit."
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Posted: 5/31/2003 6:47:16 PM EDT
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My first gun was a .22lr Remington 550-1, that was the family gun my grandmother "handed down" to me on my 10th birthday.
The first gun I bought my self was a .22lr Squires-Bingham "M-16", I bought when I was 15 (Dad had to sign). I've had this Black Rifle Disease from the begining.[;)] |
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Posted: 5/31/2003 6:56:19 PM EDT
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The first gun that I shot was a semi-auto 22LR Remington 541 with my dad and sister. My first gun that I personally owned was brushed SS Colt Python 357 Mag w/6" BBL. My first rifle was a SAR48
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Posted: 5/31/2003 6:56:20 PM EDT
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My first gun was a Remmy 20 gauge youth model 1100. Acutally my dad bought me a Rem 760 .308 WIN pump rifle before I was born.
I also have a "black rifle" and a RG Industries .22 LR revolver. CRC |
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Posted: 5/31/2003 7:04:12 PM EDT
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The first gun that I owned and the first one that I bought is the same. M1 Garand purchased at a gunshow in 1987.
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Posted: 5/31/2003 7:11:22 PM EDT
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Remington 700 BDL in .270. Got it when I turned 15 as a gift from my father. That was 20 years ago. It has a special place in my safe.
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Posted: 5/31/2003 7:12:01 PM EDT
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I got my first gun that was my Granpa's. It was a Mossberg 240c .22. I was 11 at the time. My first shot was on a Henry .22. when I was 7.
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Posted: 5/31/2003 7:14:53 PM EDT
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Marlin Model 80, .22 bolt action in 1952, with money saved from the $2 a week I made delivering the Springfield, Mass. Shopping News paper. Dad didn't own any guns, so got me hooked up with an NRA sponsered Junior Rifle Club.
Put Lyman reciever and front globe type sights on it, went thru the NRA qualification stages. Been shooting ever since[:D] Wish I still had it. Gone so many years now I can't even remember when I sold it or why. Probaly because I had the hots for some other gun. |
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Posted: 5/31/2003 7:21:12 PM EDT
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My father's old winchester 270, not .270, Model 270 pump that shot ".22 short, long and long rifle".
I got it when I was 12, and my sister and I shot many many boxes of .22s out of it in the woods near our house. We used to save money and buy them at the kmart a buch at a time to get the discount. It was the late 70s/early 80s. Then they put a freeway in and the woods are now gone, home of several big boxes today. Still have the rifle, and just took it out last month. Someday I want to find some shorts and see if I can shoot without plugs. |
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Posted: 5/31/2003 7:32:22 PM EDT
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My 1st gun was a Winchester Super X 12 ga boght it when I was 30. 1st gun I shot was a 22 bolt action when I was 14 then asked my parents if i could buy my own 22 for taget shooting. But my mother would hear it, couldn't see why as she worked for Remington at the time. BobK
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Posted: 5/31/2003 7:41:58 PM EDT
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I got a surplus British .303 made by Savage Arms. It has U.S. Property stamped on it. My mom bought it for me with my money from W.T. Grants department store in 1961 when I was 15 years old. I've still got it now.
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Posted: 5/31/2003 9:38:58 PM EDT
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My first firearm was the HK USC carbine. Oh, I loved lobbing those big 230 gr .45 slugs especially at appliances. [:D]
I remembered the CorBon slugs went nearly all the way threw every sheet of metal on a washing machine and that we put enough into it put my head through the subsequent hole... And yes, ammo cost alot. [BD] |
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