What was your first?

[Cap]

not counting the BB guns and pellet rifles which the first of those came in at age 5.



A Remington Mohawk-48 12 ga
(A bare bones inexpensive auto loader based loosely on the 1100)

I was 13 and man that was a BIG deal to me!
There were a lot of "firsts" that came with that gun.


First time I was allowed to hunt alone .
First time I hunted alone I got my first pheasant
That was the first critter I ever cut and cleaned all by myself .
First shop class project was a gun rack for that gun


Taking the pheasant is a cool story.
i was walking thru a marshy area with tall thick grass/weed like stalks that were way over my head .
I'm busting thru this stuff just trying to get to the other side when I heard a "cluck" and what seemed like right under my boot up came a rooster ...literally so close I could of grabbed it .

It SCARED me..fo-reel..LOL

I figured out what was up as it cleared the stalks.
I shouldered and busted him at less than 20 feet out....took his head plumb off

this is the part I've never told before ....It was pure luck that I popped him square at the base of head and neck....

'coarse I never told anyone THAT part back then ....


..L.T.A.

[CalWhit33]

Horsin, pretty close just found out its a model 1906, looks more like my grandpa's tho his had a longer pump. I'm going to take a look in a few weeks maybe bring it back with me.

Cap, your secret is safe here. Haha. Honestly every dove I ever took was luck which wasn't many not really good at the birds but fun just being out with my dad.

[kramm]

First gun I shot was my Dads 16 gauge Browning Auto 5,I was about 7 or 8. Shooting Walnuts on the trees after squirrel hunting. Wasn't allowed to carry a gun yet.
Used a 16 gauge dbl. made in 1916 when I finaly got to hunt on my own.
Folks bought me a Marlin model 57 when I was 16, still have it.

[BlackKnight]

I didn't grow up in a weapon friendly home so my first weapon I fired was an M16 in boot camp. The first one I owned and still have and will never get rid of it is a Colt 1911 Series 70.

[DScott]

I grew up in an anti gun family, i'm not really sure why they even talk to me, i'm the lone right winger in a family of screaming lefties. I think I might have been adopted. I was at work one Friday back in the early 80s (Florida at the time) when a co worker says, i'm going to a gun show this weekend, want me to pick something up for you? So I handed him some money, sure, what ever looks good to you...I had no clue what to ask for. Monday morning he hands me a box, it's a Taurus .38 special snubbie, I still have it, some day it'll belong to one of my kids. They have all shot it, and most of the other guns I have collected over the years. I always try to make sure there is at least some stray brass scattered around the back porch when the family comes to visit.