So what's the first handgun you ever owned?
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Sporting Lad
Regular
- Location
- Vancouver Island
Sadditty Nite Special
1959
8th Grade, and I had this tiny nickel-plated, engraved, single action .22 revolver. I don't remember who made it, but it had a spur trigger and grips like an old Derringer. After school we'd go down into the cellar where we'd stacked boxes stuffed with old Guns & Ammo mags. That was our indoor range on cold or rainy days.
That little gun would fire ".22 Longs" all day. Every so often the cylinder wouldn't quite line up with the barrel, so you'd get lead spalling on your hand, and damn, but that'd sting, but we were too stupid to wear gloves or eye protection.
Contrary to our mothers' predictions, nobody "lost an eye."
IIRC I traded that little beastie to another kid for his old man's CZ P-27 in .32ACP.
I was moving up in the world!
1959
8th Grade, and I had this tiny nickel-plated, engraved, single action .22 revolver. I don't remember who made it, but it had a spur trigger and grips like an old Derringer. After school we'd go down into the cellar where we'd stacked boxes stuffed with old Guns & Ammo mags. That was our indoor range on cold or rainy days.
That little gun would fire ".22 Longs" all day. Every so often the cylinder wouldn't quite line up with the barrel, so you'd get lead spalling on your hand, and damn, but that'd sting, but we were too stupid to wear gloves or eye protection.
Contrary to our mothers' predictions, nobody "lost an eye."
IIRC I traded that little beastie to another kid for his old man's CZ P-27 in .32ACP.
I was moving up in the world!
Awesome story Lad. How times have changed, eh?
I posted in this thread 3½ years ago but my links are broken and, well, it's been 3½ years so I thought I'd post again 'cause my first pistol still gets taken to the range regularly. And every non-gunner I take shootin' always tells me how much they love it. Bought almost 7 years ago, this gun'll stay with me 'til the end. A now-discontinued Browning Buck Mark Bullseye Target URX. Exceptionally accurate and eats everything I feed it (even the occasional misfired .22 I find on the range, 'cause that's how I roll).
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ronsnighttrain
Regular
- Location
- Orangeville Ontario
I just bought on saturday a beretta 92fs inox. Just waiting for the red tape to clear to pick it up....can,t wait!!
1964, I had just turned 18 and I saw a new 6" Ruger Standard Auto 22 in a local gunshop.
$ 45.00 later and it came home with me, the dealer even threw in a brick of CIL ammo.
In those days a person could take it into the local RCMP station and they would do the registration and send you home with it... no waiting around.
$ 45.00 later and it came home with me, the dealer even threw in a brick of CIL ammo.
In those days a person could take it into the local RCMP station and they would do the registration and send you home with it... no waiting around.
quinnjoblow
CGN Regular
- Location
- East of Toronto
6 inch Smith & Wesson 686
