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Posted: 5/25/2017 5:59:43 PM EDT

[#1]

Saiga 12

Posted: 6/6/2017 4:01:17 PM EDT

[#2]

Mossberg Maverick 88 12ga 18.5" barrel.

Posted: 6/7/2017 7:44:05 PM EDT

[#3]

First rifle was an old Colt SP1 Sporter AR, came with Colt 4x scope on handle, worst $500 I EVER spent! What a POS! First handgun was a S&W 3913, first year they came out, S&W Gen3 craze was in full swing. Glock was still relatively new here in US.

Posted: 6/7/2017 8:14:53 PM EDT

[#4]

Remington Rand 1911, US Govt property.. in pretty good shape. Project gun in Gunsmithing school.

Posted: 6/7/2017 8:20:38 PM EDT

[#5]

10/22 like this...in about 1990 or so

Posted: 6/7/2017 8:27:34 PM EDT

[#6]

870 Super Mag

I saved up a couple months worth of paper route money and bought it when I was in the 7th grade.

Posted: 6/7/2017 11:27:21 PM EDT

[#7]

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870 Super Mag

I saved up a couple months worth of paper route money and bought it when I was in the 7th grade.

http://i1153.photobucket.com/albums/p505/arfcomaje/hunts/IMG_20160912_195257516_zpszquevj40.jpg

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Great Post.

Posted: 6/8/2017 12:08:39 AM EDT

[#8]

I have a soft spot for hammer guns and this one was low cost, reliable and accurate. Still is.

Posted: 6/9/2017 10:58:20 PM EDT

[#9]

My first firearm was a S&W model 29 .44 magnum with 6 1/2" barrel. My second gun was a brand new Colt SP1 that I bought after I sold that S&W 29. Later I sold the Colt SP1 and bought a brand new Colt Python with 6" barrel. I wish I had the money to have kept all the different firearms I have bought and sold over the last 40 years.

Posted: 6/10/2017 11:16:42 AM EDT

[#10]

Colt AR-15 SP1 bought new in 1983.

Posted: 6/10/2017 1:23:12 PM EDT

[#11]

CZ52 handgun. I had my aunt buy it for me since I was 16 at the time.

Posted: 6/10/2017 1:42:26 PM EDT

[#12]

A Browning Citori White Lightning 20 ga when I was 16. One of my first jobs was guiding quail hunts.

Posted: 6/10/2017 2:19:06 PM EDT

[#13]

high point .380, I didn't know ANYTHING about guns. 120 bucks in 2002.

Posted: 6/10/2017 2:42:34 PM EDT

[#14]

Sig Mk. 25

Posted: 6/10/2017 5:30:40 PM EDT

[#15]

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A Browning Citori White Lightning 20 ga when I was 16. One of my first jobs was guiding quail hunts.

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Pic's perhaps ???

Posted: 6/10/2017 5:35:42 PM EDT

[#16]

I am pretty sure it was a Bushmaster Carbon 15.

Posted: 6/10/2017 7:14:27 PM EDT

[#17]

Browning Challenger .22 cal. Bought used in 1973 for $100, pistol, holster, two mags. Been a great shooter. Still have it.

Posted: 6/10/2017 7:36:27 PM EDT

[#18]

A 22 semi auto rifle out of a mail order catalog like Sears or Montgomery Wards, back when you could still do those things before the 68 GCA.

Posted: 7/6/2017 1:46:25 AM EDT

[#19]

Walther PPQ

Posted: 7/6/2017 8:03:36 PM EDT

[#20]

The first gun I bought was a H&R 400 12 gauge pump. It was around 1986. I think I paid $70 for it from a second hand store that my uncle owned.

Posted: 7/6/2017 9:19:40 PM EDT

[#21]

My first gun was a Ruger Blackhawk Old Model Flattop in .44 Magnum with a 6" barrel, I was 16 at the time, $300.
1976 my uncle did the paperwork at a local gun show. I still have it, it has slaughtered deer, hogs, and other too many to mention critters in the last 40 years.

My second and third were a pair of Browning Hi-Powers 9mm with fixed sights, military issue the pair had consecutive serial numbers, like new, covered in cosmaline, with matching serial numbers throughout, noticed it and didn't say anything. $175 each, with 2 spare magazine and matching holsters each. I gave my uncle the money to buy one, and my dad to buy the other, it was at a gun show, they did the paperwork, the dealer started doing the paperwork, and noticed the serial numbers and wanted to jack up the price. Dad put him foot down and said "A deal is a deal". After we got it to the car, my dad and uncle both said I was a little gun dealing fiend. That was 1977. I still have the pair in the gun safe.

I worked my tail off cutting grass, ( had my own business) so I tried to enjoy the sweat of my labor.

Posted: 7/6/2017 11:02:23 PM EDT

[#22]

A used Taurus pt92 back in 94'. Paid 200 cash

Posted: 7/7/2017 5:42:31 PM EDT

[#23]

nvm, forgot I posted earlier in this thread

Posted: 7/14/2017 9:14:53 PM EDT

[#24]

HK USP 45 Compact.

Posted: 7/16/2017 12:09:40 AM EDT

[#25]

Mossberg 500 special purpose.

My first gun though was a 91/30 I got for Christmas years earlier.

Posted: 7/16/2017 10:07:05 AM EDT

[#26]

Stripped AR lower, DPMS. I still use it.

Posted: 7/21/2017 8:55:29 PM EDT

[#27]

Ruger 10/22 Deeeelux with my detassilin'/bean walkin' money. 1978 and I do believe it was 78 dollars.

Posted: 7/21/2017 9:12:18 PM EDT

[#28]

Remington Nylon 66

Long gone

Posted: 7/22/2017 1:21:23 AM EDT

[#29]

Unissued M59/66A1. 2003. Just under $200.

Posted: 7/22/2017 3:48:50 PM EDT

[#30]

1975 I bought a Rossi copy of a J frame. .38 5 shot, nickle plated pimp gun. $50.00 with shoulder holster and a box of bullets. Still in High school. wow how times change

Posted: 7/22/2017 3:53:38 PM EDT

[#31]

Used G2 G21. Sold it a long time ago.

Posted: 7/22/2017 4:09:56 PM EDT

[#32]

Browning Hi Power No III.

Wish I still had it.

Posted: 7/31/2017 2:52:17 PM EDT

[#33]

Glock 23, gen 3, used with less than 50 rounds through it.

Essentially like new. Still had the copper grease inside it. Its seen at minimum 40k in ammo and still) looks pretty good. Hasn't been shot by me in many years though. If I had to sell everything. It would likely be the very last thing to go. Next to my first AR15 that I still have as well.

Posted: 7/31/2017 7:49:22 PM EDT

[#34]

M1884 trapdoor missing a stock. Wish I hadn't. Though I suppose it doesn't really count since it's an antique. My first gun that required paperwork was my scar16.

Posted: 8/1/2017 4:43:40 PM EDT

[#35]

Marlin 882SS - bolt action, 22WMR

It is a sweet shooter. My little brother is the current owner.

Posted: 8/2/2017 10:16:05 AM EDT

[#36]

Model 28 Smith.
1974. $117.50 plus tax.

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Posted: 8/3/2017 12:33:29 AM EDT

[#37]

Marlin model 60 back in 1988 or so. I wasn't old enough so the old man bought it for me with my money.

Posted: 8/3/2017 4:04:03 AM EDT

[#38]

Sig 229 two tone in 357sig in 04

Posted: 8/3/2017 5:22:49 AM EDT

[#39]

S&W model 36 .38 special in nickel. Wish I still had it

Posted: 8/3/2017 12:40:28 PM EDT

[#40]

CAI Garand.

Posted: 8/3/2017 3:25:24 PM EDT

[#41]

Springfield Armory P9 LSP (long-slide, ported), two-tone like this one. .40S&W.

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Posted: 8/3/2017 7:21:39 PM EDT

[#42]

Colt Sporter Hbar 20in. It was the shitty one with the sear block, shaved bayo lug, and the Half Moon carrier.

Posted: 8/3/2017 7:54:51 PM EDT

[#43]

Sig 2009. I wish I knew better. I was debating on this or a used Sig228. But the Sig 2009 was new, and more modern. Ironically, my Sig2009 is now obsolete with it's proprietary rail, no grip replacements available, no holsters available, and mags are hard to come by.

If I had gotten the 228, it would still be a viable gun today. But the 2009 does shoot very well, and the long DA pull is smooth

Posted: 8/8/2017 12:42:05 PM EDT

[#44]

Remington Nylon 77, September 1990
Smith & Wesson 686 4", August 1991, OTD $325.00. Just turned 21 and was my first handgun. I wish that I still had it!

Posted: 8/8/2017 7:20:33 PM EDT

[#45]

In 1981 bought a Ruger 10/22 from Woolworth's for $80ish. I was 16 then and still have it. Still have the Ruger Single Six 5.5" I bought at a gun show the same year too.

CD

Posted: 8/9/2017 7:44:39 AM EDT

[#46]

The first rifle I bought myself was a century arms R1A1. It had a butthole stock and a heavy barrel with Izzy handguards. Kinda wish I had held on to it.

Posted: 8/9/2017 4:08:50 PM EDT

[#47]

German made HK91 in 1982. $400

Posted: 8/9/2017 10:54:03 PM EDT

[#48]

Circa '90, or '91....I was working a summer landscaping job in Buffalo during college...stopped at Johnson's Country Store in Lockport during lunch one day, they had 4 or 5 Norinco underfolder AK's...and a Polytech Legend...I decided on the Legend, put a down payment down, and saved my money for a few weeks, and finally picked it up....it was so cool. The first gun I actually bought for myself.

I sold it off at some point to fund another gun purchase (as a poor college student, it was the only way I could afford something new!), an Eagle Arms CAR-15.

Wish I still had that Legend!

Milled for the win, like this...

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Posted: 8/13/2017 10:04:13 AM EDT

[#49]

JC Higgins Model 31 - These had a build in/retractable sling.

It was missing the sling, and the stock is beat up and I gave the guy $40 and some of my dads golf clubs. I put a lot of rounds through that thing, no ground hog was safe in the neighborhood. I still have it, but haven't gotten it out in years.

Posted: 8/13/2017 10:36:02 AM EDT

[#50]

The first gun I bought myself was a stripped Aero lower back in 2010. Paid $100 OTD at the Tanner gun show. Evidently the old roll marks are somewhat collectable now...

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