Just curious....what was your first gun? Based on

1st new store bought rifle was a Ruger No. 1V 22-250,
1st handgun a handed down Colt Woodsman,
1st new store bought handgun was a Ruger Blackhawk 357/9MM.

my dad cut the barrel to 16" and shortened the stock for me. I was 10 years old. When I was about 12 he gave me my first pistol, an H&R 22 double action revolver. He gave me my first centerfire sixgun when I was 15 .. a Ruger .357 Blackhawk.

and I never clicked. Finally sold it after about 30 years.

Then a Marlin LeverMatic 22 LR at age 11. Handguns started four years later.

I've never been a shotgun person, but have a few.

12 Ga. at KMart with me standing beside him back in 1970. We went home, he taught me how the four cardinal rules of safety, then how to hold it, aim it, load it, unload it, clean it, and eventually shoot it. I still have it and always will.

By my Grandson.

FIE 410 single shot shotgun, I was given it when I was 10 years old by my grandfather. I still have it 40 years later

I hunted all manner of game with that particular gun for years.

My great grandfather used on his trapline when his eyesight got too bad for the .22, he had traded from my great uncle who bought it around WWII. Looks to be something of a copy of a Remington. Never have seen another or found any information on them. Lighter than my bb gun, kicks like a mule and shucks the shell clear over your shoulder!

First gun was Mitchell Yugoslavian AK in .22 LR. Beautifully made gun that way outclasses the typical AK in fit and finish. I don't see many around today. The first handgun was a Husqvarna 7.5 Swedish Nagant revolver from a gun show. I just loved the strange little thing. It took me decades to find cartridges for it. (Its not the same chambering as the Russian version).

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Ruger Blackhawk 4"5/8 barrel in 45LC

20 gauge bolt action shotgun (probably a Marlin). He also bought me a Sears J.C. Higgins model 30 semi auto 22 LR.

At 16 a few months later he took me to Woolworth's in downtown Nashville and downstairs in their sporting good department they had piles of old military 30-06 rifles. He said pick one out. I grabbed a blonde stock 30-06 that had been somewhat sporterized. When we got home he took the magazine out and told me "one shot per animal". That was what got me on the single shot kick way back then and forced me to be a better shot.

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Sears in 1956. It was a single shot and I killed many a rabbit and rattlesnake with it. Wish I had it now.

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And my grandfather gave me a Remington 512 sportmaster. 22.
I still have it today.

and had to sell it later to pay bills. It was a pre 64 beauty and I have never got over loosing it.

Got it at 6 or 7 as a gift from my Dads best friend after we had been out on the back yard range. Today, I have to extract each round with a pocket knife as the extractor is all but gone! A few bazillion rounds through that rifle!

when I was 13 years old for $65.

A Winchester pump 22, made in 1901 and I still shoot it on occasion....I was 10.

growing up. The first one I bought when I was 18 or 19 in the Air Force new was a Ruger M-77 tang safety 7mm mag.

From way back in my childhood

1st Crossman 177 cal BB gun
2nd Remington 313 Single shot
3rd Stevens 20 ga single shot, model not remembered
4th & 5th Remington 600 243, Remington 700 ADL 270 Win. Don't know which one came first.

Years later
1st new handgun. Ruger Redhawk 7 1/2" 44 mag