reeves32

The first time my dad took me out shooting I was 5 years old. We went to the old town dump that had been shut down for years, we set up some cans and bottles, he took out his single six, and started telling me about firearm safety. After a talk about guns are not toys and always treat a gun as if it is loaded, and such, he started shooting the targets we had set up. I just watched in amazement as he hit every target, he reloaded and said do you want to try? and he sat me in his lap, held the gun and let me pull the trigger.
My dad still has that single six, and I will never forget the first time I shot it

gc70

I do remember the first gun I fired. My grandfather taught me to shoot on his farm with a Winchester 67-22, single-shot, bolt-action .22 caliber rifle. That old rifle has not been used in decades, but it has an honored place in my safe.

Hick

Not only do I remember the first gun I fired, like gc70's gun it is now in my gun safe. An 1890 Winchester in .22 WRF made in 1898 (but didn't know the DOM at the time). I remember that day with perfect clarity.

I was eleven (yeah, late bloomer!) and on the way home on the school bus. Saw Dad & brother Jerry working by the windmill on the North Place. On a whim, I told the bus driver to drop me off. Don't remember how it came about, but I got to shoot that old Winchester. NEATO!! Then Jerry handed me his Montgomery Wards 20 gauge bolt action. I shot it, stepped back from the recoil, and fell into a roll of woven wire! Glad it wasn't barbed wire!!

Two years later bought my own first gun, an H&R Topper 20 ga single shot. Still have it, too.

I also have the first gun my Dad shot. Don't know when he first shot it, but he got it at age 11. It was his Grand-dad's gun, a 1904 Winchester single shot .22

Amishman44

I believe it was a Steven's Model 24 (.22 / .410, over-under)...and I got to shoot the .22lr. I was 7 or 8...and it was (still is) my dad's favorite rifle and he still has it!

The switch between .22 and .410 is broken and it only fires in .22lr right now. He had it at a gunsmith shop, but the gunsmith passed away last March and I helped set him up with the FWPD / ATF agents incharge if the business so he could claim it before everything went to auction. Now that I'm working on my gunsmith, one of the first things I want to do is find/fix the switch for him so that he can use it to hunt with again...he's 75...I sure hope I can get it repaired in the next year or so?

fungun

Not counting BB guns, yes I remember it well. It was my friends dads 22-250, great initiation

James6591

A Ruger MKII.

JohnD13

It was a Mossberg .22. It had a tubular magazine and peep sights and it was a target model. Wish I could remember which model it was, but I was about 7 then.

grandpabear

Yes, I remember. It was a double barrel 12 ga. shotgun. I was 8yrs. old and my wiseguy uncle talked me into it. He threw a can into the air. I missed the can and ended up with a bloody nose. I cried and he thought it was hilarious.

BigJohnK

A .22 at Boy Scout Camp.

rfontes

marlin 22 semi that my dad bought for my brother. id say i was about six or seven at the time. i just remember the smell of the gunsmoke. we'd get up early, head out to this rural area in pine valley ca about 60 miles from the city in the mountains were they had spots for shooters with dirt back stops, like divided lots/free too. too bad they shut it down because of ppl drinking doing dumb crap. then afterwards we'd go to nearby majors coffee shop like a 50's dinner to eat biscuits and gravy for breakfast.

acepilot

Yup. A Marlin bolt action .22. I was probably about 10, way back in 1972 or so.

WhiteBreadLife

The Winchester Model 74 .22 Short. Shooting it today for the first time in 15 years

JimB120

Remember it, still shoot it. My granddad bought my dad a brand new Remington Model 34 tube fed, bolt action .22 rifle. They had to bend the front sight a bit to get it zeroed.

That was in 1934, big purchase by a county sherriff in the depression.

I think I was about 10 when my dad took me out to the city landfill to shoot it for the first time. I think he started me on 22 Shorts, but it felt like I was shooting an M 14 to me. Not really sure how much my dad shot it when he was a teen, but I doubt this gun has 5000 rounds to this day.

After my dad died my brother in law kept it for a while, but my sister brought it to me a couple of years ago, with my initials still scratched into the stock. I've shot it several times since. Still runs like a swiss watch.

Thought about refinishing the stock, but there's a lot of history there. That's my granddads railroad watch with it.

CHX77

I was 5 or 6 years old when my Dad taught my sister and me to shoot a Stevens .22 rifle. He was very serious about proper gun safety and did not allow us to have toy guns or even to pretend with some old stick of wood that resembled a gun. I guess he felt that because guns were not toys, toys should therefore not be guns. He bought me a Marlin .22 single shot bolt action rifle about 3 years later. Dad unexpectedly passed away when I was 10 but his training has stuck with me for life. Of course I still have both of those rifles in my collection.

DTesch357

In the same weekend, when I was 10, I shot the following:
Ruger 10/22
Remington 870 12 Gauge with birdshot loads
AMT Hardballer 1911, 45 ACP.