What Shotgun did you shoot your FIRST bird with? and do you still have it?

[Blackduck642]

Drake Mallard with a 1963 Browning Double Auto which my Dad bought new. I still take it out now and then for Grouse.

 

[cote_b]

A ruffed grouse with my 20ga Stoeger Uplander. Such a perfect gun for the job!

 

[tokguy]

A Hungarian Partridge with a Marlin Goose Gun! I was about 95 lbs soaking wet and I was using 3" magnums too!

 

[JamesM]

My dads wingmaster sp 12 guage and a green wing, puddled it cause it refused to get up outa the decoys. My first double also green wings with my dads A5 magnum, also the same night I made a triple on ringnecks. I tend to shoot well with the old A5.

 

[sulisa]

Got my first wood duck late last fall, in a gentle rain, using a Remington 870 Express. Duck was awesome, 870 rusted a bit... I keep it near dripping wet with CLP now, and boresnake the bore dry when I take it hunting.

 

[jay1981]

A ruffed grouse with a .410 Cooey model 840

 

[Blasty Von Kablasm]

Partridge that was staring at me, with my fathers first gun, model 84 in 20 guage

 

[Fusilier]

A ruffed grouse with my Cooey break action.410. I saved up for the gun for months and bought it at our local K-Mart. I was 16 and no ID was required. It wasn't even all that long ago (OK 1977). I still have the shotgun but it hasn't been in the woods for decades.

 

[wildwings]

red head duck, 12 gauge Remington 870 Express LH Magnum. 13 huntings seasons later still using it.

 

[30-30winchster]

crow with my Benelli Supernova couple years ago

 

[joehr]

A ruffed grouse with a mossberg 500 in .410. one of the most delicious meals i've ever had

 

[kjohn]

First bird with a shotgun would have been with my Dad's Tobin double. That would have been 50 years ago. First bird ever would have been with a brand spankin' new Cooey 39 that my Dad bought me when I was about 12.

 

[CNADNSL8-5]

winchester ranger 120 12ga. Never going to sell it!

 

[DMS]

Ruffed Grouse with the old mans winchester 370 single shot 12ga. Yes, it's stil around.

 

[GameStalker30-06]

First bird was a Ruffed Grouse with my first Gun, a Cooey 84 12 gauge on opening day that season.

 

[straightshooter]

Two guys have mentioned that they still have the gun that they shot their first bird with. I still have my 16 gauge Cooey, too.

I'd be interested, as a secondary question in the thread (assuming the OP doesn't mind), in knowing how many others still have that first gun.

 

[Turkeyslayer 1300]

Two guys have mentioned that they still have the gun that they shot the first bird with. I still have my 16 gauge Cooey, too.

I'd be interested, as a secondary question in the thread (assuming the OP doesn't mind), in knowing how many others still have that first gun.

I added it to the thread title.

I do still have my 1300 it's running strong with 8-9 thousand round fired.

 

[cornbinder49]

Canada Goose with my Browning B2000

 

[catnthehatt]

Two guys have mentioned that they still have the gun that they shot their first bird with. I still have my 16 gauge Cooey, too.

I'd be interested, as a secondary question in the thread (assuming the OP doesn't mind), in knowing how many others still have that first gun.

Sadly , no, mine was a 'company gun" from when Dad worked for C.I.L., and I do not know where it got to!
Cat

 

[Jeremy J]

Ruffed Grouse with a .410 single shot CIL 402, still have it but no longer use it, needs a stock.