What was your first handgun?

[GLOCKROCKER]

I was in the safe today and got to playing with my first handgun. It's a H&R model 926 9 shot .22 revolver. I got it for Christmas when I was 12 or 13. It's seen better days. It's missing the rear sight blade and set screw and has a little surface rust here and there. I really should make some time and give it a little TLC. Me and this little .22 spent a lot of hours together when I was a kid. It was the "gateway gun" to my current addiction. Anyway let's hear from you other guys about your first handgun. (I'll try to post some pics later)

[berettabone]

Astra .357 revolver.............$200..................shot it once, pos, sold it back for $200. Felt like it was going to fall apart in my hand. Moved to a nickel S & W 19 .357. Much better.

[olympicmotorcars]

I guess I pretty much started at the top. 6 inch Colt Python. My wife's Christmas present to me the first Christmas we were married. We were just crazy kids and could not afford it, but I still have them both. Both are prettier every year.

[jeepster09]

S&W Model 29.

[muggsy]

My first handgun was a High Standard HD Military .22 LR target pistol with a 6" bull barrel. I like to track rabbits in the snow and if I caught them sitting I'd pop em in the head with that .22. No wasted meat that way.

[DavidS]

Browning Buck Mark .22

[blkpm9]

Colt Series 70 1911, $400, should have kept it!

[Bawanna]

I started with a Ruger single six convertible. 22/ 22mag. I sold it once but got it back a few months later. We covered a lot of miles, me and that old Ruger.

Still in pretty decent shape too, better than me for sure.

[gun papa]

Ruger MK2 5.5 in bull barrel.

[Cokeman]

Glock 23

[CJB]

Marlin .22 when I was ... young... maybe 8 or so?

[CJB]

first handgun....ooop.... Ruger Security Six, six inch, stainless, .357 of course.

[WMac19]

I bought and received two at the same time while in the academy so they'd both have to serve as my first.

Ruger Service Six and Ruger SPNY.

[AIRret]

Sig 226 purchased new in 1986.
I still love the gun and shoot it often.

[rkenaston]

Springfield Armory 1911 A-1 chambered in 9mm.


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[mp95b]

A Colt Combat Commander in a satin nickel finish.......Nice! Wish I still had it.:(

[SGT5711]

S&w 5906

[TheTman]

Some single action "peacemaker" style .22 6 shooter. Got it for my 16th BD. I was stolen in a burglary.

[Southerngunner]

My first was a Smith & Wesson model 19 blued 6" barrel, target hammer and trigger and it cost me 180 dollars brand new. That was 1974.

[deadeye]

H&R Sportsman 9 shot .22. Grandfather gave it to me in 1957. Still have it and shoot it often. Still in excellent condition. He was a county sheriff and in 1946 captured a guy who had used it in a robbery. He got it as part of the reward. Very different day and age.

[Surlyman]

6 inch Dan Wesson 14-2, was my fathers. Still have it love that wheel gun!

[340pd]

MKI Ruger $37.50

[Jollyrogers]

Ruger P89 was the first handgun I ever bought with my own money. I was home on leave. I used it to test 9mm loads up until about 3 months ago when it got traded in on a single stack for CC.

[Armybrat]

Bought it new in 1959 and still have it:

http://i522.photobucket.com/albums/w349/ScoPro/Armybrat5/Guns075_zps446b6d67.jpg

[Pointblank]

When I was about 18 or so, my dad hooked me up with a plain-Jane S&W Model 10 with a 6" barrel. I wish I still had it.

[leftysixty]

First pistol, Ruger standard .22lr. Bought new $37.50:D

[LawDoc2]

Also a Ruger MK Standard .22; bought on my birthday 52 years ago last month. I was very happy 15 y/o Montana kid.

[wsgrady]

Yep, the good old days when the eyes were like an eagle and flat ground and hills were covered at the same pace. A RUGER SINGLE SIX with the wmr extra cylinder and .22 ammo was EVERYWHERE.....

[O'Dell]

Browning HP in 1966 to be used as my Navy Service Carry. I didn't want the S&W 38 that was the standard at the time.

[C2Scott]

CZ-52, 7.62x25 Tokarev. Purchased in 2003 for all of $109. I still have it. I have two of them now, actually, and at one time I owned 3.

http://www.v6-s12.com/Linked_Images/Guns/CZ_Collection_2_10_06_A1024.jpg

The chromed example looked much better than it shot, so I sold it when I bought a Kahr CM9. The dark parkerized one with the walnut grips was my first.

[Yogi 117]

2 Ruger .357 revolvers, GP-100 4" SS for me, SP-101 3.1" SS for the Mrs. They were purchased specifically for carrying while horseback riding in the great outdoors. :D

[mser]

Smith & Wesson Model 28 Highway Patrolman .357 Magnum with 6" barrel. Given to me as a high school graduation gift. Sold it to a friend about five years later. Been kicking myself in the butt ever since.

About two years ago, I saw one for sale at a LGS. It was in absolute pristine condition with the original grips (serial numbered to the frame), pinned barrel, recessed cylinder, the whole works just like the one I had. I eyed it fondly, but didn't take the plunge. A couple of days later, my son who'd been with me at the time, came home and presented me with a gift. Totally blew me away. What a kid.

[ltxi]

Ruger Single Six....old/original model. Bought it new and over a half century later I still have it and still shoot it.

[Barth]

I still have it and shoot it too.
http://i28.tinypic.com/257fxi1.jpg

[BarryinPa]

A Colt Commander. this was in the early 70's. for some reason I traded it to the sheriff for a combat commander, which I still have.
Barry

[Bawanna]

I still have it and shoot it too.
http://i28.tinypic.com/257fxi1.jpg

I got my son that same model I believe for his graduation. I have the 6" Classic Hunter.

[GROTMAN]

Didn't own a handgun until about 7 yrs ago and bought a G19. At the time thought it would be my one and only.. Now have a few including my pm9 and thanks to you guys have a whole lot more on my wish list. :)

[ninjaturtl]

Accu Tek AT-380 - piece of junk.

It was that or a Taurus PT22, and the shrewd counter guy at the hardware store opened two boxes of ammo, and put a .380 next to a .22LR. Sold!

The Accu Tex take-down involved an allen wrench, and the 4 page manual did not tell you that a little link would fall out, which it did, unseen. Shooting it the first time I learned that it would fire even with the safety on, due to the missing link. Sent it back for warranty repair, and all they had to do was replace the link I had lost.

A week after I got it back, I bought a Ruger P89DC, and ended up trading the Accu Tek in on a 50th Anniversary Ruger Mark II, which I still have, NIB, unfired.

[ripley16]

My first handgun was purchased in April, 1968, from a gun shop in Coral Hills Maryland, just off the border to Washington, D.C. I had to wait an extra week to pick it up because all the gun stores were closed due to MLK riots. It was worth the wait... a beautiful Colt Woodsman Match Target.

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i186/ripley16/Pistols/Woodsman003.jpg (http://s72.photobucket.com/user/ripley16/media/Pistols/Woodsman003.jpg.html)

[yqtszhj]

Gen 1 Glock in 9mm in 1988. I thought it was a piece of crap. Shot it once and it was gone. Never missed it.

It was traded for a Colt government model .380 and I still have it. It's one sweet shooter. It was my concealed carry piece back then. Got a .357 revolver soon after that too.

Always had rifles and a shotgun before that since I was about 8 years old. I still have my first .22 single shot bolt action. The barrel is completely shot out of it.

[Bob T]

.36 Colt Navy cap and ball replica...built from a kit. I don't remember the brand, or who I sold it to, or when, but I wish I still had it.

[AJBert]

Browning Buckmark back when there was only one option of model.

[Bawanna]

My first handgun was purchased in April, 1968, from a gun shop in Coral Hills Maryland, just off the border to Washington, D.C. I had to wait an extra week to pick it up because all the gun stores were closed due to MLK riots. It was worth the wait... a beautiful Colt Woodsman Match Target.

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i186/ripley16/Pistols/Woodsman003.jpg (http://s72.photobucket.com/user/ripley16/media/Pistols/Woodsman003.jpg.html)

My oh my, you started first cabin for sure. I have a twin to that. It's like the gun grew in the palm of my hand, perfect blue steel to skin fit.
I gotta get inside mine, it shoots well, cycles a new round but doesn't reset the striker, manually rack the slide and your good to go.
So it's an every other round shooter. Haven't been able to figure it out yet.

[pbagley]

High Standard Trophy, back in 1979 or 1980. I still have it.

[hardluk1]

First one my dad bought to learn with was 6" colt huntsman. My first is a 1976 dan Wesson 15-2 with 4" and 8" barrels.

[ripley16]

My oh my, you started first cabin for sure. I have a twin to that. It's like the gun grew in the palm of my hand, perfect blue steel to skin fit.
I gotta get inside mine, it shoots well, cycles a new round but doesn't reset the striker, manually rack the slide and your good to go.
So it's an every other round shooter. Haven't been able to figure it out yet.

Wish I could help you but I've never taken mine apart. I understand there are directions at http://www.colt22.com/

[muggsy]

When I was about 18 or so, my dad hooked me up with a plain-Jane S&W Model 10 with a 6" barrel. I wish I still had it.

Those old M&Ps were outstanding service pistols.

[getsome]

First handgun that was all mine was a beautiful blued Smith & Wesson model 17 K22 Masterpiece my Grandmother bought me for my 16th birthday in 1973....That one was a real beaut and I got prety good at shooting that thing with my then young eyes....Loved that revolver but it was stolen along with a real nice Winchester lever action .22 mag rifle when my first apartment was burglarized....I will probably never get over losing those firearms and the early introduction to what thieves are like...I still have dreams of catching up to that a-hole and getting my guns back again...

[Bawanna]

What year did you graduate Getsome, or maybe I should ask did you graduate?

[getsome]

I am a proud gragiate of Cross Keys High School & Correctional Facility in 1975
Our school mascot and name was "The Mighty Indians" and we never won a football game but never lost the fight after it was over....

[Bawanna]

I am a proud gragiate of Cross Keys High School & Correctional Facility in 1975
Our school mascot and name was "The Mighty Indians" and we never won a football game but never lost the fight after it was over....

I graduated in 73 but sucked at math, I figured we might be twins separated at birth but 16 is a sophomore. I was old for my class so I was one of the first with a driver license.
I was mighty popular until everyone figured out I was such a dweeb. An ornery dweeb but a dweeb none the less.

[getsome]

I was a dweeb too...I think I held the patent but I did have a cool car. 70 Chevelle SS so that made me a cool dweeb....I used to drive to school with my K22 Smith stuck between the seat and the console and had an Iver Johnson 12 gauge in the trunk....Me and my best friend and partner in crime both bought the same shotguns from Woolco when we were 14, no questions asked and we rode home from the store on our banana seat stingray bikes with the shotguns over the handle bars and all the ammo we could carry in another paper bag....

Boy were times different back then or what!!!

[GLOCKROCKER]

I was a dweeb too...I think I held the patent but I did have a cool car. 70 Chevelle SS so that made me a cool dweeb....I used to drive to school with my K22 Smith stuck between the seat and the console and had an Iver Johnson 12 gauge in the trunk....Me and my best friend and partner in crime both bought the same shotguns from Woolco when we were 14, no questions asked and we rode home from the store on our bananna seat stingray bikes with the shotguns over the handle bars and all the ammo we could carry in another paper bag....

Boy were times different back then or what!!!

Ahhh...the good ol days! Half the vehicles in the parking lot at my high school had hunting rifles or shotguns in them and everybody carried a pocket knife. I've carried a pocket knife since the first grade. Back then that was normal and you never heard about anybody having hissy fits over it. (not sure if hissy fits is one word or two);)

[ripley16]

First handgun that was all mine was a beautiful blued Smith & Wesson model 17 K22 Masterpiece my Grandmother bought me for my 16th birthday in 1973....That one was a real beaut and I got prety good at shooting that thing with my then young eyes....Loved that revolver but it was stolen along with a real nice Winchester lever action .22 mag rifle when my first apartment was burglarized....I will probably never get over losing those firearms and the early introduction to what thieves are like...I still have dreams of catching up to that a-hole and getting my guns back again...

Beautiful. One of the few revolvers I've ever really enjoyed.

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i186/ripley16/SampWK-22002_zpsb7a24c17.jpg (http://s72.photobucket.com/user/ripley16/media/SampWK-22002_zpsb7a24c17.jpg.html)

[ole hombre]

Sterling Arms 22 semi-auto. It was a gift from my father in law and I traded it (+ cash) a few years ago for a henry 22lr lever gun. Later, traded the Henry (which was excellent by the way) for my Kahr CW9.

I still have my first gun, a Stevens 22lr bolt action. Worth $75, won't let go of it for $750...
Well... might think about it.
:)

[marshal kane]

.38 caliber Smith & Wesson model 15, (Combat Masterpiece) with 4" barrel and target grips. Bought it new back in 1963 for $87 as a home defense gun and have fired thousands of rounds through it. It resides in my nightstand when not being used. It still amazes me how nice these old Smiths were finished in those days. I've accumulated many more handguns since then and have yet to sell one.