What was the first gun you ever shot?

[quicksdraw]

My dad's old Winchester single shot 16 gauge. I was about 6 and that shotgun kicked so hard I darn near gave up shooting on the spot.

 

[Fenway]

nice way to "ease" you into shooting

My dad's old Winchester single shot 16 gauge. I was about 6 and that shotgun kicked so hard I darn near gave up shooting on the spot.

 

[quicksdraw]

nice way to "ease" you into shooting

True, but it was my own fault. I kept pestering dad to let me shoot it and I finally wore him down. On the bright side, I don't think I've shot anything since that had as much kick to it!

 

[RH822]

.410 shotgun, I was 6 years old.

 

[Kcustom45]

S&W 422 when I was about 5 years old. I can remember hitting a steel squirrel from maybe 10 yards 4 times out of the 10 round mag and being very pleased with myself.

 

[GJ1981]

I can't honestly exactly what it was but I remember small details. It was a shotgun, a Browning auto I believe, when I was 9-10? The first weapon I shot all on my own was a Marlin model 60.

 

[ryanmercer]

My dad's service Beretta 82.

 

[USPc40]

A .22 cal. Marlin bolt action rifle that I got for my 12th. birthday.

 

[yankeedog]

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[Annie Oakley]

A 12ga when I was 24. My husband just kept telling me not to let go of it. Nearly knocked me on my butt but then everything else seemed like no big deal to shoot. It was a good introduction.

 

[bigcraig]

I was 5, gun was a single shot 12ga of some sort.

It hurt, but I giggled when the birdshot hit a glass bottle that my Grandfather set on the birm at his farm. I ended up firing a whole box of shells and had a bruised shoulder for a week, but I also wore a **** eaten grin too!

Craig

 

[medicman]

My brother's Crosman 760 pellet gun when I was 8 or 9

 

[Longshot7mm]

I think mine was a Thompson Center 22 pistol with a 8 inch barrel...by the end of the day it was an XP 100 chambered in 708...good memory

 

[Bigum1969]

A shotgiun that belonged to the dad of my best friend. I think I was in high school. I got a late start.

 

[right winger]

A .22 rifle from Western Auto

 

[Turtle]

Was a shot gun... but after i shot it so did my lil sister and it put her on her butt hard...lol Was funny stuff! Was my dads I think. He was the one with me showing my how to hold it.

My 1st hand gun I shot was a walther german luger 9mm.... I hit the dead tree and was happy...lol belonged to my aunts husband.

 

[Bluedragon]

20 gauge Mossberg pump action shotgun.

 

[slacker]

not really a "real gun" but a Red Ryder that I got for my 9th birthday.

first gun that used powder and not air would be my 10/22.

first handgun would be a 1911 chambered in .22 (then the same gun in 9mm and finally .45 at my NRA basic handgun course)

first "big gun": friend's Mosin Nagant.

 

[Crystalship1]

Probably a Belgium made Browning .22 auto rifle that belonged to my uncle. What a beautiful little rifle!!!

 

[indyjoe]

Some type of manual pump pellet pistol. First firearm was dad's Marlin 39A with 4x scope. The same rifle I'm using to take out tree rats this year.