What was your first gun that got you hooked on shooting?

[JBP239]

I got a BB gun when I was around 8-9 then got a Ruger 10-22 when I was about 11. Unfortunately the original 10-22 was stolen but I got another a few years later.

As far as hand guns go I remember shooting my uncles Browning Hi Power 9mm when I was around 12. I shot that gun very well even though it was one of the first hand guns I ever fired.

 

[bmbutch]

Rock River AR. It has since been replaced with DD, BCM, Spikes & bmbutch frankenguns!

 

[Dddrees]

A BB Rifle back when I was a teenager.

 

[TheARfan]

Good 'Ole Daisy Red Ryder when I was 5 LOL

 

[Jim McKalip]

A Daisy Red Ryder carbine for my 10th. birthday.

 

[Jump62]

A M-16a1, serial no 1551468 built in 1969, she probably has gone to the cruncher by now but I loved that rifle. If the Army would have allowed at the time I would have bought that rifle and given her a good home. heavy sigh
Jump62
aka Paul

 

[obijohn]

M16a1

 

[Expat]

 

[Darthur]

Old Remington bolt action 22, mag did not work and you had to feed it like single shot. Now that I think about it I wonder if Dad did something to it on purpose to make it like that.

 

[Old Dog]

Daisy 1894 BB rifle. View attachment 54844

+1 for the 1894 Daisy

 

[indyvinnie]

Has to be the M16A2 for me.

 

[jbombelli]

Daisy Powerline 880, then a Remington 1100 LT-20

 

[Tyler-The-Piker]

As a kid shooting the Marlin Model 60 at summer camp in the Blue Ridge mountains of South Carolina
...and out on the farm in high school shooting my buddy's tec-9 :lol:

 

[ces6508]

M60

 

[churchmouse]

My Gramps taught me to shoot a rifle with a Stevens octagon Barrel .22 short pump. It had a threaded barrel and a funny looking "Muffler" as he called it.
It was a tack driver. Many many a squirrel succumbed to that little rifle.
I truly wish I had it now.

 

[oldpink]

Before a real firearm - Crosman 2100 pump air rifle that I used to eliminate somewhere around 100 House sparrows and starlings. Sadly, I broke it.
Real firearm - Marlin 39A circa 1984. I still have it and love it. I poured over 100 rounds through it only yesterday, and it practically takes a surgeon to wipe the smile off my face each time I take it out to the range.

 

[Wolfhound]

My Dad bought me a Marlin 60 back in 1983. I love that rifle. My first center fire would be the M16A1 at Fort Benning 1987.

 

[bonkers1919]

As a teenager, a Remington Nylon 66, Apache brown.

As an adult, an SKS and a Springfield Armory 1911. I wish I never sold those 3 guns.............heavy heart

 

[STEEL CORE]

My Uncle Sam introduced me to a wide variety of weapons in the early 1970's, and for over twenty-one years he allowed me to shoot many of them at many a thing until 1996.

My favorites were his .45 auto, M-60, Car-15, and SAW.

 

[TWEAKD4]

My first gun was a single shot H&R 12g shotgun that I purchased off a co-worker at 17yo. First handgun was a Ruger 22/45 and again off a co-worker at 21. Many years went by until I got really interested in shooting. It was the gun scare after Sandy Hook that I bought a S&W M&P 9mm that started the obsession.