What was your first pistol?

[easy rider]

JP Sauer and Sons Western Marshall 357 magnum. Nicely blued with brass trigger guard and back strap. Pairs nicely with my Henry Big Boy.

Pics?

 

[Kar98]

Pics?

http://www.climags.com/jp-sauer-sohn-revolver-western-marshal-357-magnum/

 

[diesel1959]

S&W 422, when Walmart put all their pistols on clearance in the process of stopping selling handguns. Got it for 30% off retail, and still have it.

I taught all my kids to shoot pistol with it.

Great suppressor host, BTW.

 

[DD130]

This. Bought it the day after my 21st birthday... and yes... I still have it!

It was pretty custom by 80's standards... bushed barrel, S&W adjustable rear sight milled into slide... super light trigger (too light actually, had to have it replaced because it would follow the slide home). It's the wife's favorite gun, she just shot it last Friday.

 

[Kboilermaker]

Gen 3 Glock 30sf and I still have it.

 

[satx78247]

And, do you still have it.

Hill Billy,

A circa 1942 British Enfield COMMANDO in .38-200, for which I paid TEN BUCKS at the Canton 1st Monday in 1964.
(The vendor had a 30 gallon trashcan FULL of them, your choice for 5-15 bucks each.)

I traded it even for an old/rather tired-looking GIBSON banjo about 3 months later.

My first "duty revolver" was a pre-WWII S&W M&P (later called: Model 10), with holster/cuffs/Sam Brown belt & about half a box of .38SPL ammo that my mother bought me (I was too young to buy a pistol.) for 40.oo, so that I could go to work as a Deputy Constable at age 18.
(I liked to have ever "lived down" my department nickname: KID COP.)
Note: For years, "department comedians" asked me at roll-call, "Say Tex, has your mommy bought you anything lately??"

yours, satx

 

[Kingarthur777]

Marlin tube fed .22 LR, H&R .22 9 shot revolver. Later I ended up with a Winchester .30-06 for watching a Jewish neighbors dogs, and taking care of the few plants and trees he had. Then I obtained a 16 gauge pump shotgun. Those were my very first weapons. He was a nice old guy. He used try to teach me (the math challenged) and I think it used to make him drink vodka while he tried.

 

[Just Geri]

Smith & Wesson Chief's Special Model 36. My Dad gave it to me. He bought it brand new when he was younger and never shot it. I have the box, papers, and accessories. I still carry it at certain times. I don't know why some people think it is odd that I carry a .38 Special sometimes and semi-automatics at other times.

 

[chip&aprayer]

Colt 45 1911. First pistol I bought with my own money as an adult in my early twenties. Friend's neighbor was in a bind and gave it to me for $300. Great condition, damn near new. He had inherited it and didn't know what it was worth. TBH I didnt either at the time but saw a few auctions online starting at around $600 so offered him half that. I was in a bind about 5 years later and sold it in the newspaper for $900. Always regretted having to sell it.

First rifle was a mini 14 I got at a pawn shop for about $400 out the door. It was an old one, all wood stock. A lot of people dog on those guns but I liked the hell out of it. It was really fun to shoot. Sold it to a close friend for the same price I bought it for a few years later when I was in the same bind mentioned above. He moved to Hawaii and took it with him. Over there you have to register a gun within a few days of bringing it over. (I think that's how it works, never been through it myself, just going off memory from what he told me.) So he took it to the police department to do so. A few days later they called him and told him the gun was stolen and they had to confiscate it. Apparently it was stolen from a dead person's home just after he died. I still had my receipt and talked to the pawn shop and gave them the police report. This was at least 3 or 4 years after I bought it. They actually cut me a check to refund the full amount that I paid. Luckily it was one of those pawn shops that was a national chain and I talked to someone in their corporate office. I always wondered if a mom and pop shop would have refunded me. That's still something I'd like to know because it kind of affects whether I buy guns from small independent shops. Probably a case specific thing, just depending on the shop, or are they supposed to issue a refund by law? I mean I'm sure you could take them to small claims court but don't know if it'd be worth it in most cases.

Edit to include rifle story.

 

[mdf9183]

Ruger single six in 1967 right after I got out of the USAF. I traded it off but I don't recall what for.

 

[tomballpa]

And, do you still have it.

Mine was a Colt Python, and like a dumbass, I sold it a few years later.

 

[easy rider]

Mine was a Colt Python, and like a dumbass, I sold it a few years later.

Wasn't my first, but I had one of those I sold too. Had I known they would quit making them I never would have sold it.

 

[satx78247]

easy rider,

When VK was in her final days at Baylor Hospital in 1984, I sold my 4" snake to buy gas for 400 bucks.
What those revolver sell for today is "JUST NUTS", imo.

yours, satx

 

[Kar98]

It's best not to dwell on past guns you sold because of financial emergencies... specifically, don't dwell on how much you got for them and how much they're going for now.

 

[avvidclif]

Ruger Single Six .22 LR with .22 Mag Cylinder.
Worked all summer long for that handgun.
Bought in 1976, Dad had to pick it up for me.
I still have it.
Cost $99 Brand new.

I have the twin. Bought in 1968 for $75 new. Still have pistol and box.

 

[easy rider]

easy rider,

When VK was in her final days at Baylor Hospital in 1984, I sold my 4" snake to buy gas for 400 bucks.
What those revolver sell for today is "JUST NUTS", imo.

yours, satx

That's pretty much why I don't have one now, way too much. I'm hoping Colt might take the hint from S&W, who is reintroducing some of their discontinued models, and follow suit.

 

[MGA1960]

Beretta 92A1, and I still have it and train with it regularly.

 

[Dad_Roman]

JP Sauer and Sons Western Marshall 357 magnum. Nicely blued with brass trigger guard and back strap. Pairs nicely with my Henry Big Boy.

Same same in 44 Mag........and will blow your head clean....well, you get the picture

 

[Ozzman]

G21
Yes, I still have it.

 

[SidneyB]

Colt Python .357 Blued 6 inch Barrel.