What was your first rifle?

[dmorrow23]

22

A Marlin .22.

 

[Seancass]

SKS. Still have it, roughly 5 years later. Still don't love it. Might get rid of it for the right price.

 

[dew409]

A savage 22 single shot at ten, a ruger 10/22 at 12.

 

[latham17]

remington 597 .22mag

 

[GLOCK1982]

Marlin .22lr I WAS 11. SQUIRRL GUN

 

[dmorrow23]

Gotta have a squirrel gun, a shotgun destroys them, lol.

 

[sti38super]

22 Ranger bolt action, 7 shot clip, bought at Western Auto.

 

[b j]

A ted williams (sears) 22

 

[malern28us]

Armscor AR 15 look alike. A wonderful semiauto .22 I got for my 13th birthday from my dad. It is the rifle all the kids in my family love to shoot.

 

[rjstew317]

my first was a mossberg 500 12 gauge, ran about 200 rounds through it the first day shooting trap. my shoulder was purple for a month.

 

[Goodcat]

Marlin model 60

this

 

[DoubleJJ]

Remington Nylon 66. Still have it.

 

[Ash]

Marlin Model 60 for my also.

There must be thousands and thousands of these in the US.

 

[DarkLight]

First rifle I ever shot: TurnandShoot's Bushmaster AR 15. I was immediately turned to the gun side after my first range outing.

First rifle I ever owned: Beretta Cx4 Storm in 40 cal. I still have it, I still love it, its a great little rifle.

 

[cowboywitek]

mine was a marlin .22lr

 

[LocustsOfSteel]

Yugoslavian M59/66, got it when i was 22, got the thing + a bag + a pack of clips for $150 from a military surplus store that was closing in Decatur GA, and i had no idea how to inspect a rifle for potential issues back then .

The d@#n thing needed a lot of tuning and cleaning, covered in cosmoline, gas system leaked to a point where every round stovepiped, and the barrel was heavily lined with copper residue and lead... It had obviously been involved in the revolts in the balkans, then africa, then the middle east .

It took allot of time and tinkering to get it running, and was a wonderful crash course in how gas operated rifles work .

I finally got the thing to function flawlessly this independence day

It was worth it, its satisfying to know so much about the technical details of so many gas operated rifles that i picked up in my studying.
And theres nothing quite like a semi-auto made entirely of milled hardened steel (receiver, trigger group, and all) .

 

[trigger_happy57]

Yugo m48 8mm loved that gun

 

[Rescue912]

Marlin Glenfield model 60A that I bought for $38 on clearance at a Woolco. Still use that for squirrel hunting occasionally.

 

[mandolin3]

Mine was a 10/22...second was a Win 94 30-30, (pre-64). I still have the 10/22, and for some stupid reason, I sold the Winchester.

 

[rcjack86]

Remington 700 with a Bell and Carlson stock, .308 centerpoint scope.