digging thru one of the safes today and
stumbled across my very first handgun, that my father taught me to shoot a few years back, about the time JT started college LOL
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An H&R was my first pistol also.
My Dad gave it to me when I was about 13. I shot that gun a lot. Didn't have enough sense to keep it.
FIRST GUN I EVER SHOT WAS THE
999 ON MY UNCLE'S FARM IN 1947
Always liked the 999, my cousin and I bought our first hand
at the same time. He picked the 999 but a stainless Virginian dragoon in 44 mag tickled my fancy. Killed deer with it. And the rest as they say is history.
I guess I am the only pure bred honky that has
never owned a 999. My first pistol that I bought (prior to that I used my Dads Colt SAAs and a couple of little cheapies) was a 22 LR/Mag 9" High Standard. It had the normal SAA type round top, no sights.
I had an old gunsmith work on it (AKA butchered it) trying to mount a scope on it. The only scopes we had in those days were the Bushnell Phantom that sits on a rail. The gunsmith couldn't figure out a way to mount that rail to the top strap. He drilled holes everywhere but it would never stay tight on the gun. Finally I took the scope off and filled the holes with fill screws and sold it to some other dummy. In the next few months I bought one of the first Contenders that hit the market and never looked back.
like this High Standard
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