What was your first Ruger?This is a discussion on What was your first Ruger? within the Gun Stories forums, part of the Firearm Forum category; My first was a MkII. Still own it, still love it, use it to train my wife and Grandson. The rear sight walked loose the ...
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August 29th, 2012, 06:10 AM
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#841 | | Zombie Hunter
Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Atlanta GA
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My first was a MkII. Still own it, still love it, use it to train my wife and Grandson. The rear sight walked loose the other day. I guess it's time to look into target sights.
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August 29th, 2012, 09:14 AM
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#842 |
Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Colorado
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I got a 10/22 back around 1975, and then sold the dang thing to my brother who still has it today. Not one of my smarter thing in life, but I am sure I needed the money to chase some girl.
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August 29th, 2012, 10:20 AM
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#843 |
Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Southeastern Iowa
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First Ruger was a LCP, sold it since I didn't need it anymore since I purchased myself a Beretta Nano.
First gun purchased was a BUL Cherokee Full-Size 9mm, carried it until I got my LCP then sold it and bought me an Springfield Armory XD. Seems like it is a very popular competition firearm.
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August 29th, 2012, 11:00 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Central Valley of California
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First Ruger was a LCP, sold it since I didn't need it anymore since I purchased myself a Beretta Nano.
First gun purchased was a BUL Cherokee Full-Size 9mm, carried it until I got my LCP then sold it and bought me an Springfield Armory XD. Seems like it is a very popular competition firearm.
| You sound very much like me, selling one gun or project to start another. Finances have generally dictated the move since I first owned a gun. I forget the gun now, but I had sold a gun to a friend of mine for a reasonable price and my gun interests seem to go in waves. It might be black powder for a few years, then shotguns, then rifles, ie. all over the map and eventually I'll get back to wanting to do black powder all over again. Well this was a case like this. And now I remember the gun, it was a custom ordered American Derringer model 4 slab sided and bored off center (that was the only way they could get two 45/70's to fit into their gun. As I recall, you also had to draw a file down the edge of one of the rims to get them both to fit. They don't make these every day and it cost me a fortune to get it in the first place. I offered my friend a respectable profit on the gun and he refused even though he was not shooting it and never had shot it.
Turns out he had a household rule. "Never Ever Sell A Firearm!" and he stuck to it. Boy I wish I could say the same. I've owned guns in the past that quite frankly I could never afford now. And a truckload of guns that are no longer available in California. My friend wasn't stretching the truth either as I've seen his safe's and they are all loaded to the brim. This post just made me think of him and my inability to do the same. Smithy.
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August 30th, 2012, 02:05 AM
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#845 |
Join Date: May 2012 Location: Florida
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My first Ruger was my Mini-14 stainless, wood stock, 183 series. Not a tack driver but I was able to put all rounds into the black on a 100 yard NRA Small Bore target at that range. Except for the addition of of a flash hider mil style front sight combo and a few dents in the stock it looks the same as when I bought it 30 or so years ago. Definitely value for the Dollar.
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September 10th, 2012, 11:11 PM
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#846 |
Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
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My first Ruger was a Mk II Government I bought when they first came out in 1986...still have it and love it!
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September 10th, 2012, 11:56 PM
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#847 |
Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: MO
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Not the first gun I ever owned but the first I ever bought and first Ruger was my SR9.
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November 9th, 2012, 05:26 PM
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#848 |
Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: somewhere
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My first Ruger was a GP100 4" blued .357 Magnum.
My first gun was a Marlin Model 60 .22 LR.
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November 9th, 2012, 06:23 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: CT
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First rifle I bought was 10/22 in 1968, still running perfect. First pistol I bought when I was 14 in 1970. Dad gave me a ride and just waited while I bought my pistol, Ruger Single Six that is also still running perfect. Don't think a 14 yr old can walk into the gun shop these days with $45 of hard earned cash and buy a handgun. Well was a different world in 1970 south Louisiana. Kids think I'm lying when I say every guy at school had a knife in his pocket and a gun in his truck during hunting season, usually a 30-30 hanging in the back window rack.
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November 11th, 2012, 02:09 PM
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#850 |
Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: Arizona
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|  What was your first Ruger, and was it the first gun that you owned?
I've just turned 21 and still was in college. I bought me a Ruger SR9c. I loved that gun, and then had to sale it to pay for a semester of school and had many guns since. I miss it so much that I plan to buy another one soon but the full size model.
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November 11th, 2012, 02:44 PM
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#851 |
Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: Illinois
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My first Ruger was a 10/22.
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November 11th, 2012, 02:53 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Pennsylvania
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Mine was a Mark I built the year I turned 21..... Bicentennial year 1976. I bought it and never noticed the stamping on the barrel "Made In The 200th Year Of American Liberty", still own it. I also bought a Colt Mark III Trooper the same day, sold it.
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November 11th, 2012, 05:11 PM
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#853 |
Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: Erie, PA
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Well mine was a SR9c but I grew up shooting my grandfathers 10/22 and my father-in -laws P95 before I ever owned my own Ruger.
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November 11th, 2012, 05:27 PM
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#854 |
Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: Iowa
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My first Ruger was a MkII Government back in 86.
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November 27th, 2012, 06:40 PM
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#855 |
Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: TN
Posts: 10
| First Ruger
My first Ruger was a bicentennial security-six that my wife bought me as a birthday gift in 1976. It is still my favorite firearm.
My first gun was an Ithaca model 49 single shot .22 rifle that my parents gave me for Christmas at the age of 8. I still have that one as well!
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