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My first rifle was a Remington Model 788 chambered in .243 Win. I still own it and love it. My kids are hunting with it now and will be handed down to the next generation, not because it is an expensive piece but because it gets the job done and also the sentimental value.

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Man.....what a great trip down memory lane! My first shotgun was a Single shot lightweight 20 guage. My first hunt I shot a rabbit with it at too close a range and felt soooobad that I destroyed it. Dad have to have a hunting talk with me about why we hunt and that the killing isn't the why, it's the companionship and the learning to respect the life around us, all life. Someday I will do so for my son/daughter.

My first rifle was a Model 94 30-30. I still have both of these rifles in pristine condition and plan to pass them down. Hopefully they will remember me when they hold them in their hands and learn the respect my father taught/still teaches me. Thanks for the post!

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Not counting pellet and BB guns, the first "real" firearm that was "mine" was a NEF single shot 20 gauge shotgun with a fixed modified choke that dad bought me when I was 10. I don't have it anymore, and can't for the life of my remember what ever happened to it. I remember the day like it was yesterday. Dad used to take my younger brother and I out and we'd take turns shooting clay birds hand thrown by dad with his Remington 870 Wingmaster 20ga. that was dad's first gun (he'd saved and bought it new when he was 16 years old in 1967). Well, one fine Saturday long ago we'd gone out to shoot like we often did. When we got out to the range dad opened the trunk and we expected to see the familiar leather case holding dads shotgun, but instead found two boxes containing brand new NEF single shot 20 gauges! I don't know who was happier, my brother and I because we now had our very own guns, or dad for seeing the looks on our faces when he opened that trunk. Dad told us that he thought it was time to take us pheasant hunting for the first time, and we couldn't share his shotgun for that.

Don't feel too bad, my brother did the very same thing the first time we went pheasant hunting. We were walking a patch of prairie grass between two corn fields. Patrick spotted a cottontail about 15 feet in front of him in a little open area and got a little too excited. He let it have it with field load of #6 shot and cut the poor rabbit in half, the only thing recognisable was the head, hind paws and tail! He felt bad too, but looking at the bright side, at least the rabbits didn't suffer! :D;)

Mike

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My first gun was an H&R 410. I only killed a few bushy tail with it and that is about it. I never killed a deer with it, but I scared the crap out of a few. Once I had one deer that I shot at about 5 times with slugs. Limbs falling all around the deer and it just stood there wondering what was going on. I finally quit shooting and said, "Get outa here!" Looking back that is one of my craziest memories from hunting. I quess the deer knew it was safe as long as it stood still.:D

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Mine was a marlin .22 lever action. I have worn that gun out two times. I have sent it back to them each time it absolutely wouldnt fire, and they fixed it free of charge. I just wrote them a nice letter saying that that gun has been the best I have ever owned and they fixed it. The last time I sent it in they replaced the barrel, action, trigger mech, receiver, etc. For the most part they replaced everything except the stock. I bet I have carried that gun a million miles.
That was my very first gun of my own. Before that I used my grandads Remington Speedmaster with a bottom eject. That was the first gun my dad had ever shot too. Its still a great shooting gun today.

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Hey guys!!!!!!!!!!!

Just wnted to say Thanks for the greate posts that you have shared with me and everyone..
I do hope to hear more from all of you again...:)


Thanks Again
Leroy

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My first rifle? Hmmm, my first rifle was an old Remington pump .22 that I bought after trapping and working until I was 14. My first gun... I still remember the day my Dad brought it home. It was a Harrington & Richardson, single-shot, break-action .410

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The first guns I was able to shoot and clean were only mine for the using. The first gun I owned I bought myself when I was 14 yrs old.
It was a 7 X 57 1903 Steyr Mannlicher bolt action,.....military bolt but add on express sights. It was a new barrel as the original 6.5 X 54 was shot out. I still have it and it shoots much better than I do. The iron sights limit my use (old eyes).

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I've still got all of mine-My first shotgun was an Iver Johnson Champion .410 single shot which was my grandpa's before my dad's, then mine...my first rifle was a Marlin Model 99M-1 .22lr, looks just like a mini M-1Carbine-at a glance at least-it was my dad's when he was a kid...my first handgun I bought for myself, a Ruger Super Blackhawk .44mag, none of my "firsts" are going anywhere anytime soon.

I've also got my first deer rifle and the first shotgun that I bought...then again, I've also still got the first chain I wore out on my first chainsaw kicking around somewhere...my first saddle, my first pair of chaps, first pair of boots, first cowboy hat, and the list goes on and on....I guess we're a sentimental bunch around here.

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First gun that was mine was a Sav,model 24 ,22/410 over and under,Seems like it cost $39 or $59 back then cannot remember ,but that was a lot of money then.It took lots of digging sang and other wild roots and many odd jobs to afford it,and still have it.
First shotgun I can remember shooting was a stevens 12 guage with a hollow plastic stock,now you talk about kicking,I think everytime I shot it I got a bloody nose.Any of you guys ever had one of those.I remember my Dad borrowed a guys Jap rifle to deer hunt with missed a big buck 7 times with the jap rifle went back the next day with the single shot 12 ga and got the buck with one shot,Big 9 pointer