What gun popped your cherry? As in what's the first gun you ever shot. Feel free to include how old you were or if there's a story you'd like to reminisce on and share.For me, I was about 5, and it was my uncle's old Remington slide action .22 like pic related
>>65153656this very shotgun, a Savage 220A in .410. I don't know how old I was but I couldn't even hold the thing and the recoil knocked me on my ass. my Dad set a clay pigeon in a tree for me to shoot, I didn't hit it.
>>65153656A rusty break action 410 shotgun my great grandfather hunted squirrel with back in the day. I was six. Hit the can my dad set up. I was hooked after that.
>>65153688nearly the same experience but with a savage 24
My Dad's Ithaca 22 that he had since he was 12. I learned to shoot with it when I was 10, it would jam like crazy if you tired to shot it from a bench but holding it it would cycle no problem.
>>65153656>Moss 500 20 gauge>10 years old>hunter safety course >hit a clay dead center and turned to dust>hooked instantly
Some old youth model .22lr single shot, no idea what it is because I outgrew it and graduated to a Marlin 39a
I have a distinct memory of shooting a lee enfield chambered in .22 in sea cadets but I've never heard of or come across such a thing again so idk if that's a real memory
>>65154168Just googled it, its real
>>65153656My dad's Ruger LCP. He bought it, cleaned and oiled it, left it in a safe for a week, and when he took it out to show us how to shoot a handgun, the left side of the slide was already rusted. He was so mad that in less than a year he sold it off and got a Glock 26.
>>65153656Henry .22 lever action. Was probably 5 or 6. Dad took us out into the edge of the woods and shot some cans.
Nice stories anons, I appreciate you guys sharing. What about the first gun you ever bought with your own money? I bought an M48 in 2006 with money I made taping boxes and helping the collator guy. I was 15 then.I really regret selling it back in 2015, but I ended up with someone else's hyper-sentimental gun, so an interesting twist
>>65154305pretty sure first gun I shot was a 92fs>What about the first gun you ever bought with your own money?M1 Garand from CMP
>>65154305First gun that was really was my grandpas GP100 that was given to me street graduating college. First gun I ever bought was a .22 Ruger Wrangler. Probably would have been something cooler but it was during Covid so .22 was the only ammo available
>>65154305>first gun that was gifted to meRemington 700 SPS Tactical >first gun I bought with my own money16" DSA FAL>first gun I builtRomanian PM md. 63
>>65153656My parents thought it would be funny to train a single digit age kid on .357 double action for some reason, turns out kids can't pull double action triggers easy and they got impatient with me and it turned me off from guns until I was a teen and shot a .22 revolver and SKS with my uncle. Eventually started my collection at 21.
>>65154362That makes me think of my dad's story, his dad had him stand back-first against a tree with a shotgun "so the recoil won't knock him over."Troll/true asshole parents have no idea the damage they cause
>>65153656Funny, very similar model for me. Haven't shot it much but it can hit steel at 200 believe it or not.>>65153857I don't think I've ever used this meme before, but that thing is like the "HK 270 we have at home". Probably predates it but it has the same look.
>>651536567x57 1916 Mauser when I was like 12
>>65154168Lee Enfield No. 8, my first time as well (air cadets instead), went on to get all the marksmanship badges I could. Range Master was an old WWII vet with stories, helped him out as much as I could and went to the range twice a week for years until I aged out. Fun little rifle, not as heavy as the SMLE, recoil practically nonexistant.Years after I left, I found out they had most of them destroyed and melted down. If you want one nowadays they run at £2,000. The rifles have all been replaced by the Cadet GP which is truly fucking awful rifle based off the L85A1 with no gas system; manually cycled action, and jammed frequently. I only had the displeasure of using it once and I had feed issues every 2 to 3 rounds.Can't have anything nice these days
>>65153656O/U 12ga wandering round my friend's dad's land, blasting trees, branches, bits of fences, stone walls etc. laughing like a couple of retards, which all 11/12 year old boys are.
>>65153656a remington model 31ruined me from liking any other pump actionkinda like my first gf ruined me with yellow fever
Colt woodsman, paper plate leaned against a tree, alone in the rain. Left those bullets right where they might fuck up a chainsaw someday, but as far as mistakes in those circumstances go, that's not too bad.
>>65153656My Dad’s Glock 19 when I turned 18. Almost immediately soured my opinion on wanting a Glock
Sauer 200 STR, went shooting with my friend who was into competitive shooting at the time, we were like 12. what i remember most was laying prone wearing sweatpants and it really hurting my dick
My late Grandfathers Winchester model 12 made in Its mine now and i will pass it on to my sons some day
>>65154827**made in 1948 (if memory serves)
>>65153656Savage bolt action .22. I was a 6th or 7th grade year old at boy scout camp and I've loved shooting ever since.
>>65153656The good ol' Valmet RK62, 7.62x39.No red dots. No adjustable stocks. Only the standard peep-sights, and this babe dropped steel at 300 meters, effortlessly.Never jammed, always worked flawlessly.Yes, this is a Tori.exe signal.
.50 bp hawken rifleI was 5 and my dad had to hold it up for me while I aimed
>>65153656First gun I ever shot was my dad's makarov. I was like 3 or 4 at the time and I wasn't holding it right so I cut the shit out of my thumb, I still have a scar to remember it. I was kind of afraid of guns for a bit after that (not for too long I remember shooting .22s not so long after), but thanks dad for letting me shoot it like that. Also I conceal carry that same gun to this day.
>>65153656It was either a Sharps rifle (paper cartridge, percussion ignition) or an old Danish flintlock musket. These were the first two long guns I ever shot, though I can't recall which it was that I shot first. The musket was a flintlock of around .72-.75 cal. I don't know the exact model, might have been a M1774, maybe 1841, etc.Later that day I fired my first handgun as well, a Colt Python.
>>65155089Are you Brett with Papercartridges.com?
>>65154552In sea cadets (west coast) we had very limited opportunities for shooting unless we competed in biathlon. Still at summer camp I got two fluke groups in a row and qualified for distinguished marksman and kept me interested in guns until I could get my own
>>65153656>Thread about cherry popping >No one speaking about their first time having sex with their gun
>>65155118Yeah, I was lucky in that our Squadron (what did you guys call your units?) had a indoor 25 yard range on our site along with our own No.8s, so we would host other Squadrons and also local Army and Sea Cadet units. But they would only come to shoot like, twice a year or something to get their basic quals/badges while we could go twice a week. We would run through bricks of .22lrNever had the opportunity for biathalon, would have been fun to do I think. But of course being Air Cadets there was the flying opportunities and I was a plane autist in addition to becoming a budding firearm autist. Guessing for Sea Cadets you'd get to go sailing and the like?This shit was like 20 years ago, I'm feeling old.
>>65153656Shot my buddy’s sporterized 7mm Mauser when I was around a sophomore in high school. I remember how loud it was and how much it recoiled because at the time I had never even seen a gun be shot in person, my only experiences with them before was through movies and video games. I remember we went to Elk Neck in Maryland on a freezing cold winter day, I think it might even been a Saturday morning, but we were the only people there just because it was so cold and shitty out.
>>65155240They were called corps in sea cadets. And yeah my experience shooting was a lot closer to the squadrons you hosted. I took marine engineering one summer at quadra on vancouver island, enjoyed and excelled at the classwork but am pretty hopeless with actually getting my hands dirty. They still assigned me as engineer on a 60ft boat with fatty twin cummins diesels every other weekend until I aged out after that. Cadets offers some pretty incredible opportunities for zero cost.
Got picrel after a series of break-ins in the neighborhood, and realizing I was an adult man who didn't know how to use weapons. Good gun. Shoot it and am happy.
>>65155537It looks like a nice gun. I wish I was allowed to buy handguns.
>>65153656a MAS-45, owned by the range go to.
Photo of the mas45, i was 25.Started quite good 4/5 on the gong at 50m
jr model 22 short bolt single shot at some summer camp in the colorado woods. It was fun.
