When and What was the First Gun you Shot

[Paul15]

When I was a kid a local farmer let me shoot his 22-250, I didn’t hit a thing.

 

[Thunderhog]

A Hiawatha 22 bolt action repeater almost identical to Chumlee's Cooey. 1976....

 

[Bigbubba]

Air Cadets 779 squadron
Probably 1974
CFB Toronto indoor range
Some kind of bolt action 22 rifle. Looked like a 303 LE

Then they took us up in an Otter, which was my first plane ride.

 

[MadMike83]

I was probably 5-6 years old at my Uncles farm. A Ruger Standard .22. The bucket was probably all of six feet away from me, but I hit it.

 

[Moe]

10 years old. Was at Grandpa's farm house when he caught me staring at the rifles and shotguns on the gun rack in the kitchen. He asked me if I wanted to shoot a gun. I replied yes and he said meet me on the step. He met me there a few minutes later and pulled out of a small cloth sack a captured Luger P08 he brought back from the war. Mother came out to see what her dad was up to. She freaked out and he yelled "little man need to learn to shoot". I remember he took out the mag and it was loaded. I was shocked it was loaded and he said to me "they ain't any good empty" lol. After he seen I wasn't a goof with it he let me finish off a couple mags into a fence post at the end of the driveway. It was a truly a different time in 1979. Best part is the Mounties called the house shortly after to see if old Bill was shooting again and left it at that. It sure would not go like that today.

Cheers
Moe

 

[Mtl514]

C7a2

 

[Ratzilla]

1022...about 15 years ago.

 

[skwerl]

Not counting BB guns & Pellet rifles earlier.

C.I.L. 125 from Corlanes Sporting Goods , Dawson Creek 1967 .

 

[vultr]

First was Cooey model 60. Second was S&W 629. Because my uncle is a bad person.

 

[biff hooper]

Last year (very late to join this fun).
About 50 rounds through a K31. Very much the newbie and gave myself an almighty bruising in the shoulder, haha.

 

[ravenzoom]

In my case I don't remember the make, but it was a .22 rifle at a summer camp. Keep in mind it was in the early 90's. I'm not sure summer camps have shooting activites now, but I could be wrong.

 

[TriggerTime]

Mid 60's at Uncle Frank's place near Collingwood, think I was 8 or 9. An Ithaca lever gun, Model 49 in 22WMR. Groundhogs beware!

 

[tug]

pellet gun then at 10 savage over and under 22/410 Still kick my a$$ for trading it

 

[diegocn]

First real gun I shot was a Chinese SKS. When we start high school in China everyone has to go to military base for a week of training. Mostly displine and formation stuff, but at the end we get to fire their rifles. From my memory it was a mix of t81 and sks. We shot 3 rounds each and I got a stripper clip loaded with spent case to take home. I hated the formation training part but shooting rifle was fun.

First gun I owned was a cooey 60 in Canada.

 

[kayaker1]

Rem 511 .22lr shooting Swartklip ammo, farm near Kroondal, South Africa. Maybe 8 years old? Shot the rifle many more times over the years.

 

[Tarrantula]

Mine was a bolt action .22LR with my dad and grandpa in a gravel pit in Elliot Lake probably 20 years ago now.

 

[Rocket94]

1987. Cooey 64 with my dad out by the train tracks in Comber Ontario. Still have the Cooey.

 

[Res2]

1986, bren gun .303 on a open day at trentham army camp

 

[Shootin'Shaner]

Pump action .22 (I'm thinking Remington, but not 100% sure) when I was about 10. It was my grandpas, and after he died I wanted it, but couldn't bring myself to ask for it. I don't know who has it now.

 

[FannyBayR1]

FNC1 in Cornwallis in Jan of '79. I'm not counting pellet or BB guns!