How Young Were You

[Guest logicprevails]

How young were you when you got your first gun? I was 7. Drove down to Ray Judge's in Winchester from Springfield with my dad many moons ago to get mine. Got a Rossi .22 Gallery, kid-sized....still have it! I've got my 6 YO l'il gal a pink Crickett for this Christmas am. Can't wait!

[nightrunner]

I dont really remember but I was about 8 or 9 and got a .410 single shot shotgun for christmas, I was the happiest kid on the block!

[Chucktshoes]

30. Trying to make up for lost time.

[Garufa]

Was about 10 or 11. Dad took me out to the farm and handed over his Remington Fieldmaster. After that Mom could not deny me a pellet gun anymore for the back yard.

Still have that Fieldmaster.

A year or so later talked the old man into buying me a new 10/22 from K-Mart (since my friend had one). Cost about $60. Had to cut grass all summer.

Still have that 10/22.

Edited September 3, 2009 by Garufa

[Motasyco]

Twelve. My dad got me a Carcano so I could start deer hunting with him. I still have it and still shoot it but it's been a long while since it's slayed a deer.

[Guest proudsuthrner]

i think i was about 10 or so, it was a Daisy BB gun.

my "friend" got ahold of it and was chasing me with it and he ended up shooting me in the face with it. not a good time as you can imagin

[Garufa]

Do you still have both eyes?

[Guest logicprevails]

i think i was about 10 or so, it was a Daisy BB gun.

my "friend" got ahold of it and was chasing me with it and he ended up shooting me in the face with it. not a good time as you can imagin

[Guest proudsuthrner]

Do you still have both eyes?

if your question is directed to me.. it hit me in the cheek lol. good thing i have big cheeks

[Guest Jamie]

Had a BB gun when I was 3, and got a .22 when I was 11 or 12.

I had access to the family guns pretty much my whole life, so long as I asked permission.

Bought my first pistol when I was 19, btw.

[Metalhead]

My very own? 13, H&R single shot 20ga I still have to this day.

This does not count the plathora of "family" firearms we had growing up.

[Guest m&pc9]

37

[Guest SureShot308]

18, got a Savage 10FP Tactical in .308

[Daniel]

22. Colt M4. They took it back though =(

[bukowski548]

18 because Mom wouldn't let me have have one before that. I went big when I got the first one, Franchi SPAS-12 with the hook stock.

I was the king of the universe!!!

buk

[Schadenfreude]

My dad bought my first gun before I was born!

[Guest H0TSH0T]

i was issued a Beretta 9mm at 18 in the service, but me and it both belonged to the US. military at that time, the first gun i owned was a Mossburge 500a pump with speed load synthetic pistol grip stock. i payed 50$ and was range boy a summer working under the range master and a California range in the mountains.(age 22)

[Verne]

My dad bought my first gun before I was born!

Me too. It was in the house when my mom and dad got home from the hospital with me.

My first true gun was a Chipmunk .22 I got for my fifth birthday. First handgun was around 12 or 13 and it was a S&W 422. Both I still have.

[enfield]

23 as I recall, but that was a long time ago! A Winchester semi-auto .22 that I still have.

[ZZRguy]

I was 12 when I got my first BB gun and I bought my first .22 when I was 15, it was a Iver Johnson and it looked like a M1 carbine. I helped a guy roof a house and he paid me $100 and I bought the gun for $80.

[Motasyco]

If we're counting BB guns, I guess I have to revise my response to about eight. My younger brother got one about the same time. Some BB marks appeared on my mom's dryer. I didn't do it. My brother swears he didn't do it. One of our great family mysteries. Maybe my sister borrowed one of our BB guns and did it. I'll probably never know. My mom and dad have both passed away now but had brought this up at every family gathering through their lives. We were all punished for it just in case.

[Good_Steward]

I got my first rifle for Christmas when I was 6. A Marlin model 60 that I still cherish. I thought it only appropriate that my son get his first .22 for Christmas when he was 6. That's been nearly 3 years now. The boy's turning into a seasoned shooter right in front of my eyes.

[Guest page90lx]

Lets see bb gun at 8, 20 gauge H&R at 10 for Christmas and model 60 marlin at 12 the next Christmas still have everything but the bb gun:)

[Mariner]

BB gun at an early age, then my dad bought me my 20 gauge when I was 11. Still got the 20 gauge.

[Guest db99wj]

I got a 410 single shot, back when I was before 10. It is at my moms'. Don't know the brand. When I moved up, I got a Remington Model 11 (Browning Bar Pat) 20 guage. It was my grandfathers, fathers, then mine, still got that one. Got a Remington Model 70(I think, will have to verify) 30-06 for deer hunting. That was one of my dads. I bought my first shotgun, when 18, 870 Express. Bought my first handgun, when I turned 21, Rossi .38 snub nose, still carry that some today. Then my XD40, then my AR. Have numerous other family guns (shot guns, rifles and pistols).