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GENERAL TOPICS => The Shootin' Range => Topic started by: Ozark Tracker on September 20, 2006, 08:55:33 PM
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I was 11 years old and had went home with a friend of mine after church one Sunday, his dad had a collection of Colt 45's he had about 30 of them.
he took us out behind the house and let us shoot one of the pistols, it was just like the cowboys had in the movies.
he set up a cinder block for a target and let us shoot a box of shells, by the time the cinder block had been pulverized, I was hooked on pistols, from that moment on, pistols were what I wanted.
got a 22 colt frontier scout when I was 12 and absolutely tried to wear it out, still got it and it spits lead like crazy.
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I remember that I was probably about 14 and my grandfather let me shoot his pistol. It was a top break and as I remember it, it was probably a Iver Johnson or at least that type. I am pretty sure it was a .32 and I hit a can with it and was excited about that.
Next for sure was an old 1911 and probably a WWII issue. It was at boot camp and we had to learn to field strip it and then we got a chance to see if we could do well enough to qualify with it. Navy, boot was not that much about shooting, although we did a little and a few guys got qualified in rifle, but I don't think any did with pistol in my company. It was a long,too long time ago.
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It was a "Zip Gun".
Made from six inches of car radio antenna, taped and glued to a wooden stock, hammer made from 2" of hacksaw blade that rotated in a slot on a nail pivot. Hammer spring was a rubber band, the sear was a notch in the end of the hammer, set and released by a coat hammer trigger kind of like a 1911. No breech block whatsoever. I loaded it with BB caps and it was surprisingly accurate across the basement but wouldn't break a Coke bottle. Tried .22 shorts which were self ejecting by the blowback, but swelled the 'chamber' to uselessness.
I graduated to homemade 1/2" pipe percussion pistols powered by homemade black powder and capgun caps. By the grace of God I still have both my eyes and all my fingers.
I was eleven or twelve. Moral of the story, if you don't teach your kids they are likely to teach themselves, with possibly disastrous results. Thanks for asking.
Goatlips
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My dad didn't have a pistol, just rifles, when I was growing up. I don't think I fired a pistol until I bought my first single-six about 8 years old. Which was before I got into CAS.
Slim
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I was 14 and working on the Rifle and Shotgun Shooting merit badge as a Boy Scout. The instructor was a Sheriff's deputy and let us try out a S&W .357mag. snub nosed that he used as a backup.
My favorite was at a Chamber of Commerce event at a military base range. A couple of Special Ops. small arm specialists had a display of SO weapons and we got to try some of them. They had a 1911 .45, a glock and revolver that had a huge scope, they said it was for sniping, very cool stuff.
That was several years ago. Doubt it would be allowed now.
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A Colt Python with 38 wad cutters, belonged to my Dads cousin a Doctor who loves guns. I was about 16.
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my dad was a fan of Elmer Keith and bought a Super Blackhawk when they first hit the market and I must of been about 10 years old when I first got to shoot it sometime in the early 60's. Dad did not believe in starting us out on 22's, his theory was that you would learn to respect a firearm if it banged you around some. I don't know if the old man was right; but it sure worked for me.
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Prolly ‘bout fifteen. Parents went ‘n visited family in Oklahoma. My uncle knew me ‘n my pards liked ta play in the marshes with BB guns so he sent me a High Standard .22 pistol back with ‘em ta move me up ta burnin’ powder.
Didn’t know how loud it wuz gonna be – not ta mention illegal - only shot it in the marsh once. Pard ah mine had his driver’s license ‘n a .22 rifle so he ‘n me’d go ta his Grandma’s place out in the country ta plink cans.
That thing had the stiffest mag spring in it. Used ta come home every time with a blister on my thumb from loadin’ the thing.
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I say I was about 8 or so (50 years ago :()... not sure which was first, Dad's Remington bolt action 22 or his H&R 9 shot 22 revolver.
There was also a S&W 32 shot topbreak & a 32/20 S&W.....
The question is which pistol ? I'm guessing the H&R 22 (Mod.999 )
Let the air out of many a can and reduced lots of bottles.
I still have the Bolt action Rem. & the 32/20 Smith....
Dad gave the old H&R 22 away about 1963 , to a lawyer who had help with my Grandfathers estate.
Sometime in the early 70's , I found a Brand new H&R Mod. 999 in the Sporting Goods Dept. at Kmart.
I bought it for my Dad , some 30 years later I have it now....
So in a way , I still have the first pistol I ever shot.
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The first pistol I ever shot was a Ruger Super Bearcat. My Dad bought it new in '72. My brother and I had a ball shooting that gun but if you wanted to hit a can on the ground you had to aim at the ground in front of the can. I still have that pistol, and I still shot it every now and then.
Second pistol was a reproduction of a 1851 Navy in 44 caliber. Really enjoyed shooting that late in the evenings. What a ball of fire you could see coming out of it.
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My dads 1st model S&W K.22 outdoorsman. 1930s vintage, old long action. As smooth as butter,trigger breaks like a glass rod. I have it now, and there isn't enough money in Bill Gates pocket to buy it. That little gun taught me how accurate a handgun can be.
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The first pistol I ever shot was a WWII Captured Wather P-38 9mm that belonged to my buddies Dad, He loaded it up and let us shoot at some tin cans sitting on an old stump, we were lucky to hit the stump.
But that started me on a lifelong love of firearms.
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The first one I ever shot was my dad's Police Special in .38 spl cal. He bought it new when he was a teenager, probably 1915-1919. Great shooter.
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Ruger Super Single Six in .32 H&R................Buck 8) ;)
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First one was a .22 Star autoloader that my father owned.
It's still in the family, but it's mine now.
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My first pistol I ever shot was a S&W model 57 .41magnum with an 8 3/8" pinned barrel with some of the deepest bluing I've ever seen. I still have it, and it still shoots wonderfully, just like Elmer Keith said it would. The .41magnum is still a misunderstood and underused cartridge. I know, I'm nuts about .41's.
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A replica single shot .45 caliber BP CVA percussin cap "Kentuckey" pistol. scared to bejesus outa me but I waz hooked on BP shooting from then on .
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I grew up in a family that wasn't "into" guns. The first handgun I ever got a chance to shoot was a Ruger Super Blackhawk (three screw model) when I was about 26 years old.
Hit what I was aming at and fell in love with single actions on the spot.
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Reckon it mighta been a .22 Single Six that Dad had in the early -70's. It was the "brandly-new" type with a transfer bar.
Or maybe it was the neighbor kid's grandpa's ol' break top S&W. Don't rightly recollect which'un it really was(????).
MG
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First pistol was a Ruger Single-Six Dad bought about '71 for $75. It came with both cylinders, a buscadero holster rig and a "brick" each of both .22LR and .22Mag ammo. I guess I was about 13-14. I never shot any other type of pistol till I did a "fam-fire" of the 1911 at Camp Pendleton five years later. Later, I qualified high expert every time I shot for record with the .45. Strange, though - I could barely qualify when we switched over to qualifying with the 9mm M9 Baretta. I figured it must be the fat grip on the Baretta.
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Greetings!
It was either Dad's High Standard 'Military', or his Colt 1911A1 that he'd had adjustable sights put on. I believe it was the .45, and I was in my early 'teens. I hit the paper...!
Be Well!
M.T.Marfield
12-17-06
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govy issue colt 1911 45 acp.
i think i was 5 or 6. dad was a marine colonel [lifer].
got the slide in my eye. when my dad kept saying dont hold
it so close, i should have listened more carefully.
as he could see i wasnt getting it, he was reaching over to
correct me and i let go the round.
he said, are you ok? i said [sniff-sniff] yeah, i'm ok.
never did that again!!! :-[
still shooting today!!!
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Greetings!
DeadWood, the first longgun I shot was Dads Sweet 16 Winchester 12. Same age as you. Dad put a coffee can about 10 yds. away, put a Cyl. choke in the 'Cutts', and chambered a round. While Dad held the forend "to reduce the recoil", I decided that my nose should be buried into the cheek of the stock... Before Dad could stop me, I yanked the trigger, and received a glancing punch. In the true spirit of "damage control", Dad retrieved the can to show me all of the little holes, that I DID IT, and gave me a bear-hug.
Aren't those 'Cutts Cans' ugly?
Be Well!
M.T.Marfield
12-20-06
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I believe it was in 1968 at Hue, during the Tet offensive...a govt issue model 1911.
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Age 16. My friend's mom had a lady smith .38 special. Five feet away from a tree stump big as a tractor tire, I missed it clean... ???