How many still have your first firearm

[PanhandleGlocker]

Still have my first pistol and rifle. Pistol I purchased. Rifle was Christmas present from the parents when I was about 10.

.45acp Glock 36 and .308 Mossberg 100ATR

 

[Firpo]

@2busy thats sharp looking. I picked mine up at a pawn shop, or should I say, I rescued mine from a pawn shop. Poor rifle bad been badly abused. So bad that when I got it home and disassembled I found it had electrician’s tape holding the internals together. Had a custom, oversized (.003 over) action screw made and stripped the stock making it a blonde. She’s up and running just fine now and fun to think I was able to bring it back to life.

 

[rockchalk06]

I wish I did. I had a biological father who would gift then take. Found out when I became an adult, he was a gambler.

I remember the gun though. 22 Chipmunk that only fired 22 shorts. I bet I put a few billon rounds through that thing on the farm.

"We" still have the first gun I bought for my son though. Hoping I can convince him to keep it forever. He's 16 and looses interest all the time, but circles back to ringing steel every once in awhile.

 

[Bocephus123]

My first firearm was a Savage 110 in 243 I was gifted for Christmas. Still have it. It’s also still the most accurate rifle I own. First firearm I bought for myself was a Marlin 22. I actually gave it away and it came back to me. I don’t plan on letting it go again.

110 probably my favorite rifle ever!!

 

[Fr Mulcahy]

In 1998, I bought a Ruger Mark 2 22LR. Blued, with a bull barrel. We must have put at least 50,000 rounds through it so far.

In all that time, we have only had to replace an extractor. All else is as it was when I bought it.

We use it now mostly for training new shooters.

 

[2busy]

@2busy thats sharp looking. I picked mine up at a pawn shop, or should I say, I rescued mine from a pawn shop. Poor rifle bad been badly abused. So bad that when I got it home and disassembled I found it had electrician’s tape holding the internals together. Had a custom, oversized (.003 over) action screw made and stripped the stock making it a blonde. She’s up and running just fine now and fun to think I was able to bring it back to life.

I've got a blonde one also. I think my dad had to do a little work on it too.

Came up with a model 14 1/2 you don't see very often.

 

[Shinneryfarmer]

When I was 8 yrs old i wanted a 410 shotgun to use squirrel and rabbit hunting. Dad told me I could have one if I worked and payed for it myself. Worked doing odd jobs till I had enough money to buy one at a pawn shop. I was 9 yrs old by the time of purchase, I still have it. I plan on refinishing, reblueing it and giving it to my youngest grandson in a couple years when he is 9 yrs old.
Thinking back I worked and bought every gun I own up until after I married. My wife has bought me many.

 

[RickN]

No but I have my father's first gun.

 

[OK Corgi Rancher]

Still have mine. It's a Sears .410 I got for Christmas when I was probably 9 or 10...so sometime around the 1969 - 1971 time frame. It's still in great shape.

 

[xseler]

Gave mine to my nephew (technically it's still in the family) --- Stevens 311 .410 SXS. Loved that gun! First pistol was a Browning Buckmark .22LR. Still have it. Has the butteriest trigger of anything I've owned.