What gun started your love of firearms?

Mine was an old fixed choke 870 wingmaster. At the time It was taller than me. It also had all these beautiful ingravings and checkering on the stock that I just never see on the 870's anymore. I think that is where I got my love for pretty guns too.
 
when I was 6 my dad got a S&W .357 and we were out walking in the wood and it was getting dark and he shot at something and when I saw the flame come out the end of that thing I knew I had a love for guns. I started out with a crossman pellet rifle when I was about 7 and then a H&R single shot 12ga when I was 10 then when I was 12 dad got me a Remington 572 fieldmaster .22 and I have been buying guns ever since.
 
H&R .410 shotgun with nice walnut stocks. Bought it at US Surplus when 12 yrs old, using lawn mowing money.
(dad had to pay for it with my money)
I still have it, and still shoot it.
Over the years, it was the first gun that all of my relitives shot, and killed game with.
It had been shot so often that the hammer refused to stay at full rooster. The Gunsmith took care of that, and it my gun to go for armadillo's in the yard. Don't make near the mess that a 40 grain VMax does. Still kills them dead.
 
My first purchase of my own was an M&P 9 and i was hooked on semi auto's.......but my Grandpas old Hi-Standard .22lr 9 shot revolver was the first gun I shot and one of my favorites still!
 
i got an old daisy BB gun for Christmas when i was around 6 or 7 that used to be my dad's when he was a kid. that's what got me hooked. i still have it, mounted on my wall above my fireplace. after that it was a single shot .50 cal muzzleloading pistol that belonged to my grandpa. then, i shot my dad's 44 mag redhawk, as a 10 year old, it became the gun of my dreams!
 
For me it was.......... Han Solo's blaster in Star Wars.
A few weeks later I found a Mauser look-a-like BB gun at Otasco (remember them?). I thought it was Han Solo's gun.
So ,for what seemed like and eternity, I swept sidewalks in downtown Barnsdall for change until I saved up the money for that BB gun. My dad owned a grocery store next to Otasco, so the Otasco owner thought my dad ok'd me buying that bb gun. I got my a$$ beat when I walked in the living room with that thing.

I never shot a "real" gun until I went to the Police Academy. Freaking hippie parents.....
 
I cannot remember the make of the rifle but it was dad's .22lr semi auto rifle with a scope and a magazine tube under the barrel. He left it at his parents house when he deployed to Europe in the 80's with the air force. Sometime after 2000 he finally found it in a closet in that same house and brought it home. A couple of weeks later he took me to H&H to teach me how to shoot (I was 11 or 12). I kept asking to go and he got tired of taking me so after a couple of times I didn't get to shoot anything for a while. Then about 5 years later he found his old 20 gauge semi auto shotgun (Ithaca made, don't know the model) at his parent's place and brought it home. I finally talked him into taking me to shoot that gun. HOLY COW I LOVED IT! It hurt like none other because he wasn't used to shooting so he didn't know how to tell me to properly hold the gun but I didn't care. I couldn't use my right arm for the rest of the day and my shoulder was sore for 2 days but I couldn't wait to go back.

He really just wanted me to know how to use a gun. He didn't want me interested in them. He wasn't too thrilled when I finally saved the cash to go buy my own shotgun. I woke him up at 8am to tell him I'd be back in a few hours with a shotgun. :D He told me to wait and ended up buying it for me. He still regrets it because I keep buying guns when I can and he thinks I should be saving the money. :P
 
Friends Dad took me and my friend to shoot his old Winchester pump .22. I was about 13.
 
It was just an old BB gun,, like the Red Rider,, one of the kids in the neighborhood had one,, and shot it,, we would find the bb's and shoot them untill we could not find anymore,,,
 
My dad's police service revolver. He would let my brother and I clean it for him. He would always brag that he had the cleanest revolver at line up.
 
Daisy BB gun to shoot wasps out of an oak tree in my back yard when I was a kid. Then my Dad's 20ga and 30-30 for shooting pumpkins with my friends when i was a teenager. Good times.
 
I started shooting .22 target rifles indoors and was completely hooked. That combined with the fact that firearms, hunting and shooting of all kinds were a staple in my upbringing left me no choice.
 
I had toy guns, then a Daisy bb gun, then a single shot shotgun. But, the gun I fell in love with was an old Stevens 87A that a family friend gave me after a house fire. I shot thousands of rounds through it and still have it in the same condition it was after I cleaned it up about 35 years ago.
 
Savage Stevens 311E 20 ga., I got for Xmas in 1973. I still use this shotgun for duck hunting on occassion and it is my primary turkey gun. OGK (Only God knows) how much game it has taken in 37 years. I shot trap with it for 3 years until I graduated to the 12 ga.
 
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