The firearms that got you passionate about guns/shooting!

[Dunndm]

I shot an old WW1 or 2 .22 trainer at my uncles ranch when I was about 5. I now have to many guns… or not enough. However you want to look at it


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[isocyanate]

Probably have more hours behind a daisy 888 10-meter rifle than anything else, and it’s where I got my competition bug.

Not technically a firearm though….

 

[49ereric]

Dad‘s Stevens o/u .22/410 and mom’s single 410. i use them yet today.

 

[westsloper]

Didn't start shooting until I was in college. My father in law has a couple of highly accurate vintage 22 bolt actions that were a blast to shoot and got me hooked. Most fun of all was a Winchester 22 lever action that is sadly no longer in production.

 

[MtnW]

Pre 64 Model 70 Winchesters, 50’s and 60’s S&W wheel guns , 20 gauge Browning Superposed shotguns, Winchester Model 12 shotguns. My neighbor growing up was a gun crank, partner in a gun club, avid hunter owned a remote hunting home on a lake in the northwoods and serious reloader. He was my mentor.

 

[Rob5589]

My Grandpa let me shoot his Weatherby MK5 in .257. The gun was gorgeous; shiny bluing, wood was amazing, and it shot well even with me on it. I think I was about 10 or 11. I lusted after that gun and fondled it any time he'd let me lol

Also shot his 700 in 7RM but passed on his .300WM. Don't like the 300 recoil even now. The .257 was the one for me.

 

[thinhorn_AK]

A sporterized springfield 1903 30-06 that belonged to my dad. It was his rifle when he was a teenager in the 1960s and he shot s kit of deer with it and the first deer I shot was with that rifle. I still have a soft spot for the 30-06 because of that gun.

 

[Nykki]

A Winchester model 70 on 30.06 that I got for Christmas in 1977. I had gone to Nome that year to spend Christmas with my girlfriends family. Still have the rifle and the girl.

 

[jimh406]

The first gun I shot. I don’t even remember what it was, but was probably a bb gun.

 

[waldo9190]

There are two.

1) My dad's Model 70 SS 7RM. When I was young (5-6) he would let me "help" him clean it after rifle season and I swear I could barely lift the stock, let alone the entire rifle. That rifle was kept in SUCH good shape, and is the reason why I love stainless/synthetic rifles for their utility......and fluted barrels.

2) Our families 1956 (I believe) production Model 94 in 30-30. Pretty much everyone who deer hunts in our family has killed at least their first deer with that rifle. My half-great grandfather purchased that rifle the year after they moved to the farm where we still hunt to this day. I still take that rifle out on occasion if I'm feeling particularly nostalgic, and I've still never killed a deer any deader than I do with that rifle.