My granpa gave me Sears Roebuck bolt action .22. I love that gun, it has been great for squirel hunting. It's in rough shape, but I won't get rid of it.
My first rifle was a Marlin tube fed semiauto I bought 22 years ago but only took it to the range twice and sold it. Yesterday I bought a Ruger 10/22, this one I plan on using alot more and keeping it.
My first rifle of my very own was actually a shotgun, I got a brand new Mossberg 500 12 gauge for my 13th birthday, on my 14th birthday I got a Marlin Model 60.
1st rifle Ruger10/22 for Christmas 1966...still in my gun safe.. 2 yrs earlier was my 1st firearm of my own ..that was a JC Higgins bolt action clip fed .410...its in my safe also
Well I just got my first rifle for Christmas, a Marlin 336 30-30 NIB. After opening the box and checking it out, found that the lever was getting caught up. I gave the rifle a light oiling to see if it would help out but didn't seem to help. So I decided to return the rifle where my wife had purchased it.
Upon doing an exchange for the last Marlin in stock, the salesmen noticed the trigger was stuck (took five minutes of working it to get it to release). So finally I did an exchange for a Rossi Rio Grande in stainless. I'm very happy with my first rifle. Now I've got gun fever, can't stop looking for more.
A 1942 Izzy Mosin Nagant. round reciever not a speck of rust on her. all matching numbers. only a week or two after that i got a Remington 700ADL in .308.
Hadn't thought about it in a while but my first real rifle was a Stevens bolt action single shot that you cocked by hand pulling on the back of the bolt. That and a 3/4" tasco scope and a few boxes of .22 short hollow points accounted for a lot of squirrels from the age of 13 to about 17.
One of Dad's friends gave me that rifle. He passed from bone cancer a few years later. Both my little brothers used it growing up and we killed a hog or two about every year with it when it got cold enough to butcher.