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Posted: 9/18/2004 10:26:44 AM EDT

[#1]

M-16, courtesy of US Army, January 1974 - December 1976. (ya know, I never got to put one of these on rock and roll).

First AR, Early 1977.

Posted: 9/18/2004 10:46:13 AM EDT

[#2]

1987 when I started shooting 3 gun at our logal club. Back then we didn't give a rat's ass for colapsable stocks and flash supressors in competitions. I can't remember how many CAR's I passed on because the the lousy cheek weld on it and the muzzel brake quickly replaced the useless flash supressor, ah, those were the days, but they are here again!

Bill

Posted: 9/18/2004 11:14:16 AM EDT

[#3]

1974 I shot an early ar15 the one with the charging handle in the carry handle. It looked like a trigger. I cant recall if the charging handle moved with the bolt or if it stayed forward. I was 15 and hooked. Uncle sam bought the rest I shot for many years.

Posted: 9/18/2004 11:23:21 AM EDT

[#4]

1987 Belonged to Uncle Sugar-tit. USAR. Mine had a happy switch too. Said M16 on the side as well.

Posted: 9/18/2004 11:30:22 AM EDT

[#5]

12 years old. 1987 at a big quarry on the NE side of Tulsa, OK. It was my fathers SP1. Broke my heart that he sold it.....until I finally got my own :-)

Posted: 9/18/2004 11:45:27 AM EDT

[#6]

About 1975. I was 8 years old. My father had a Nice Colt Sp1 . .... Very cool indeed for a 8 year old. WarDawg

Posted: 9/18/2004 11:49:53 AM EDT

[#7]

July 1992, Ft. Leonardwood, MO
A. Co, 35th Engineer Bn.

I was issued an M16 A2 fresh out of the box.

Posted: 9/18/2004 11:55:36 AM EDT

[#8]

Fall 1987
Basic Training @ Great Lakes, MI

Bought my first this year and I'm in the middle of building my second (pre-ban). Should be finished by next month

Posted: 9/18/2004 11:57:22 AM EDT

[#9]

AR-15 type...M-16A2 at BMT in91'.

Dan

Posted: 9/18/2004 12:20:23 PM EDT

[#10]

Right after my wife told me not to. She then went shopping.

She has one now.

Posted: 9/18/2004 1:32:27 PM EDT

[#11]

In 1972 while in the Air Force.

Posted: 9/18/2004 2:53:11 PM EDT

[#12]

July 1988, Lackland AFB Tx. I barely qualified... It was humid and my glasses kept fogging up; We had finished the confidence course the day before and my knees and elbows were chewed up... It was 5.56mm ammo too, not the .22 lr conversions they tried a few years earlier.

Next time I touched one was 3 years later as I had to requalify...

Posted: 9/19/2004 5:02:44 AM EDT

[#13]

1964....!!

Posted: 9/19/2004 5:11:26 AM EDT

[#14]

1966--------Before that we had M14's.

Posted: 9/19/2004 5:49:35 AM EDT

[#15]

1978 issued complements of the Big Green Mother, bought my first COLT M16A1 in 1984.

Posted: 9/19/2004 6:13:39 AM EDT

[#16]

It was the M16A1 in basic 1985 and I got my first AR15 in 1989 at Jims Pawnshop near Ft Bragg.

Posted: 9/19/2004 7:02:23 AM EDT

[#17]

First M-16 Sept 1998 bootcamp, First AR-15 yesterday.

Posted: 9/19/2004 7:07:43 AM EDT

[#18]

1984 FT. Benning, GA Infantry Basic training M-16A1

Posted: 9/19/2004 7:16:36 AM EDT

[#19]

I Shot my first AR-15 (SP-1) in 1975. It had the old triangular forend. I Bought my own CAR-15 (SP-1) shorthly thereafter and still have it. I Didn't get to shoot one with a "Happy switch" (love that term!) until 1982.

Posted: 9/19/2004 8:29:51 AM EDT

[#20]

January 1987 - had just enlisted in the USMC and was waiting to ship out. Had the money and wanted it, so I went and got a Colt without really knowing what I was getting. Just shot it a few times before going off to bootcamp.

Posted: 9/19/2004 8:41:11 AM EDT

[#21]

I was at my local gun range 3 years ago when a local SWAT sniper let me shoot his own personal AR as well as his model 700 Remington PSS sniper rifle with a Leupold scope. I'm still having wet dreams over the AR...I can't wait to get mine!

Posted: 9/19/2004 12:34:31 PM EDT

[#22]

Sometime 1982 near San Antonio, Tx. I remember it was a Colt and it was fun.

Posted: 9/19/2004 12:58:14 PM EDT

[#23]

AR-15 SP1 in May 1982. M16A1 by GM Hydramatic in the fall of 1980. The M16A1 convinced me I had to have one.

Posted: 9/19/2004 9:13:57 PM EDT

[#24]

Last winter.
I had earned the money for a mauser the fall before working at a pizza place and immediately i was hooked on shooting.
Held a friends AR-15, loved it, had to have one. I sold off a 1,000 dollar paintball gun i won in a drawing to a friend and fought a huge battle to have the parental units purchase it for me.
After a month or so of constant debate they caved and i ordered a CAV-15 16" A3 direct from cav-arms.
I was just 17 at the time. It was quite a struggle convicing my liberal parents that i wasn't going to shoot up the school. I brought out all of my ammunition to win the arguement, including multiple threads from this site, and pages from places like www.awbansunset.com.

They thought it was a dumb phase. They know it's an addiction now when there are posters on the walls, cases of ammo coming in the mail, big brown truck deliveries multiple times a month, NRA stickers on the car, and of course the homepage for the computer is www.ar15.com!!

I bought a membership to the local range and try to go once a week. They finally warmed up and occasionally want to come with!
I turn 18 in two months and am already planning my next AR project!

Posted: 9/19/2004 9:23:49 PM EDT

[#25]

When I bought it a year ago.

Posted: 9/20/2004 9:12:32 AM EDT

[#26]

I don't recall the date exactly, but I suspect it must have been about 1980 when I was in fifth grade or so. My Pa had picked up a new Colt with triangular handguards. He still has it. I built my first post-ban AR-15 from Oly and American Spirit parts in the spring of 2001, and I put together a pre-ban M4gery last year before I knew I should wait until this year to buy pre-ban parts. Now I feel like I got raped on that lower. hinking.gif

Of course, I replaced my post-ban upper with a pre-ban, gotta get a collapsible stock next.

Gun show is this weekend, maybe I'll be able to score my next great deal or pick up a handful of 30-round mags.

Posted: 9/20/2004 9:40:45 AM EDT

[#27]

October, 1988. I bought a used Colt SP1 at a pawn shop for $450, which was too much back then but I wanted it badly. The first time I fired it I said "What the f%*&!" when I heard the SPROING! Like a dumbass I sold it in 1991 to buy a new Colt HBAR. I thought I didn't "need" two ARs. What an idiot. I bought a 16" AR15A2 Gov't. Carbine to go with the HBAR in 1995. I will replace that SP1 one day soon hopefully.

Posted: 9/20/2004 10:07:05 AM EDT

[#28]

Shot my first M-16A1 at Ft Huachuca Az in 1984. Even got to turn on the happy switch in those days.

Posted: 9/20/2004 10:12:06 AM EDT

[#29]

A little more than a year ago when I bought one.

Cav-15 Trooper.

Damn I love it!

Still workin on a new one

Posted: 9/20/2004 10:22:50 AM EDT

[#30]

my first time was with a M16 on 9-11-03, at Ft. LeonardWood on the weapon zeroing range during BRM in basic training. then just a month after i got out of training, i got my own AR15 (Bushy 20" HBar A2)

Posted: 9/20/2004 10:40:43 AM EDT

[#31]

Ft. Devens, MA July 1989

Posted: 9/20/2004 10:44:32 AM EDT

[#32]

Fall 1994 when I was a freshman in ROTC. We went to Fort Bragg for an FTX and got to shoot the M16A2 (semi only

) and 100 rounds from the M60

.

Posted: 9/21/2004 2:11:07 PM EDT

[#33]

Been a little while. My first firing of a civie AR was after I bought one. Didn't know how it would be, but knew I wanted one and bought it. Having it was the important thing for me. If its good enough for the military..... Was hooked from first sight, then trigger pull, been "boooiiinnnggg'ing" ever since.
Once you go black...

Posted: 9/21/2004 4:07:03 PM EDT

[#34]

I think it was Spring or Summer or 93/94. I can't remember, I was either 8 or 9...I never dreamed of having the stuff I have now at that age

!

Posted: 9/21/2004 4:34:40 PM EDT

[#35]

1995

Camp Schwab, Okinawa, Marine Corps KD range, brand new M-16A2.

Side benefit of being Navy attached to Marine.

BTW, I shot a 39,

1 for 10 at 500 yards.

Posted: 9/21/2004 4:39:26 PM EDT

[#36]

Well, it was about 2 years ago at Knob Creek MG Shoot, except it was an M16. I got my AR about a year ago.

Posted: 9/21/2004 4:46:47 PM EDT

[#37]

Bushmaster 20" A2. Spring of 01'.

Posted: 9/21/2004 4:57:18 PM EDT

[#38]

1980 at the Young Marine Camp. I was in the 6th grade.

Posted: 9/21/2004 5:11:59 PM EDT

[#39]

Basic Training, Ft Sill, OK, June of 1998.

Posted: 9/21/2004 5:40:20 PM EDT

[#40]

1984, It was an SP1. The first firearm I ever bought, heck; I didn't even have a car yet! I saved my money for a long time, then went to the gun shop on my 18th birthday. I got a used one for: $375 and a twenty round clip for: $8. Boy! You couldn't tell me nothin back then. Wish I still had that rifle.

Posted: 9/21/2004 6:17:19 PM EDT

[#41]

Hopefully within the next couple of weeks when SteyrAUG ships our Colt's out.

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