What gun started your love of firearms?

Daisy BB gun, then Mossberg .410 bolt action shotgun when I was 13. At 16 12 ga. pump. At 21 a Ruger Single Six. Did lots of quail and pheasant hunting in my younger days, then marriage kids and other priorities. Now that we are empty nesters I am getting back into shooting and adding to the collection.
 
First gun I ever shot was a Ruger MkII that is my Dad's. I was probably 7, and it was the whole "I though I was holding it, but it was really him, I just tripped the trigger" I always had a passion for guns, the first thing I ever owned though was a Crossman 1077 semi-auto pellet gun.
 
Started off with the daisy bb gun that was lever action. Think it was a mock Winchester. Dad got it for me after we went to Camp George Thomas and he was one of the adults who went whith us and I didnt put a bb through the target. In hindsight, I wasnt loading it properly.. Maybe. From that we went to his Marlin 39A from childhood. Great gun. A few times while trying to put the hammer in half rooster (safe) my thumb slipped off and the gun discharged. This happened enough, that when I was 12 for Christmas I got a Browning Abolt 22lr with bushnell variable 9x scope. Great gun. Thousands through it. Never once a ftf shooting bulk ammo.
 
Pioneer 22 was my first rifle, shooting tin cans out the back door of the farm house.

46 years ago but I still have it and it is still as accurate as ever (more so now since I became a gunsmith.)
 
Some kind of bb gun. We would buy the nickel packs of bb's from Western Auto. They were wrapped like the halloween candy you get these days. If you had a little more cash you could buy the quarter packs that were a tube about the size of half a cigar. We wouldn't know what to think if we had seen the big packs they sell at wal-mart these days.

We shot more june bugs and grasshoppers than you can imagine. We had a big concrete pad underneath a night light and man would those june bugs flock in during the summer time. Me and my brother would stand at one end and pick them off for hours. Kinda reminds me of the prairie dog hunting we do these days.
 
My dad's Star Starfire 9mm (think that's what they were called). Compact little 9mm, all steel, neat little rigs. Still keep my eye out for one, just for nostalgia's sake.
 
you think you were a "late bloomer", when i was around 23 years old i decided i wanted a gun (keep in mind i had NEVER shot a gun before, EVER), so i started doing some research and talking to everyone i knew about guns and ended up deciding on a sig p220, one of my buddies knew a guy that was selling a used one for 500, i bought it and literally just got some ammo and went to H and H by myself and shot it for the 1st time and the rest is history.......
 
in 4th grade, i asked for a bb gun for christmas. My father said no, and that i would shoot my eye out with it. so for christmas he bought me my first new england firearms 20gauge shotgun!!! no lie! hahah... great times :lol:
 
My first was much like most of you, a Red Rider bb gun. But at 11 years old for Christmas my step dad bought me a semi auto Browning .22LR. It was one of the ones that breaks down at the barrel. And I didn't realize it at the time that it was a Belgium Browning. I remember my step dad telling my mom that it was probably worth the $75 bucks he bought it for from some lady at work. Sadly, I lost that gun in a house fire two years ago. Of all of the 4 guns I had, that was the one that I miss. I am always on the lookout for another, but I bet I have to give a few more than $75 for it.
 
For me my first was a old H&R topper with youth stock and rifle sights. The addiction started when i got 1911 in .45 auto. Still have all childhood guns except one that dad sold cause he didn't like it. Still on the look out for one like.
 
The first gun I ever shot/learned on was my H&R single shot .357 mag rifle. It was passed down from my dad and I killed the majority of my deer when I was young with it. Neat little shooter. Then I moved on to my Ruger M77 Mark II in .30-06.
 
Remington 581LH given to me in 1968, and still with me today.
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My dad is the kind of guy you need to watch out for.... he had one gun... and he knew how to use it.

OK... he had 3 but you get the idea. 94 Winchester, M12 Winchester and a Ruger Single Six. He drug me all over hunting and fishing... taught me how to shoot.

A couple of great uncles.... Ed W was a rabid quail hunter... Ed J (they were married to my Aunts)... he'd hunt everything else and a crack rifle shot.

An older cousin was a giant gun collector....always trading. David had a little bit of every thing.

A bunch of my Dad's freinds and several relatives were in Police work. The first centefire pistol I ever fired (8 or so) what a Colt Trooper, shot at a PD range.
 
My first gun was a Crossman 760 pump bb/pellet gun. My dad bought it for me right around my 8th birthday. I pretty much shot everything with it and by everything I mean including the TV. Long story, but yeah, I got an ass whoopin for that one.

My dad has had various long guns and shotguns, but he was never really a pistol shooter. He had an old .38 and .22 revolver, but never really left the safe. I pretty much had a disinterest in guns until I rediscovered the AR 15 platform a few years ago. For some reason, I never realized just how far the AR platform had evolved from it's Vietnam War era days. It got me interested in long guns again.

Honestly, it wasn't until I got my carry permit and shot a Glock 23 that I really started to become enthusiastic about firearms in general. I don't know why, but as a designer, the Glock appeals to me. Sure it doesn't have the "hipster" flair of a Beretta or the Scandinavian design aesthetic of a Sig. However, it's simple operation, clean lines, minimal design, and the fact that it just works everytime makes it the "Helvetica" of handguns.

Now, I'm full blown crazy about firearms. It's an addiction that I have yet to find anything that will satiate my hunger.
 
Remington 12 gauge... And my Glcok... My XD 45 tac... My old PT 1911.. My AR15...AK47...Savage 30-06 rifle... My Mossy 12 gauge...



Ohhh and every freakng gun I see when I go into any store......
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But no the first two....
 
My first gun was a S&W Sigma in .40SW. I got it soon after I turned 21, and it was a piece of garbage. It took awhile to figure out, since I was a newbie, just how awful that rotten thing was, but getting out to shoot is what really turned me on. My second gun was a Ruger New Vaquero, and it is what made me move full-bore into guns. What a sweet piece of steel that thing was. I ended up selling the Sigma-trash, and trading the Vaquero in with a few others to get a Desert Eagle Mark XVIV.
 
For me it wasn't a particular gun it was my first IPSC match. Thank you, John Bent! :P
 
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