Sheridan Silver Streak, still have it. Does that count? Dont know how sets of seals I've put in it, Still kills fine though.

Like so many others I wore out my Daisy repeater.
For my thirteenth birthday my parents (really Dad because Mom wasn't sure) bought me a Winchester 190. It came with a Weaver 4X scope as a package deal from the factory. I've lost track of the thousands of rounds that have been put through it. Still have it, still shoot it.

Daisy pump bb gun of some kind. First real gun was a Rem 870 12 ga bought when I was 9 or 10.

I received a Browning light 12 for Christmas when I was 12. I had to grow into it.

I still have it, it is like me , a little rough around the edges. In good shape for a 51 year old
field gun.

MO

Stevens Springfield Model 15, single shot, bolt action, .22. Still in the family since new in about 1940. Original scope. Monetarily not worth mentioning but means a lot as a family heirloom. Purchased by my paternal grandfather whom I never met as he was deceased long before my birth. My dad and aunt both learned to shoot with it (early 1940s), as did me, my sibling and my nephew. The obvious stock cut-out was done to lighten the rifle for my dad and aunt as they were both young. In addition, the barrel was cut down. At the time the chopped barrel was legal. Time passed, laws changed, dad had a smith lengthen the barrel before teaching me to shoot with it. Looking closely the seam of the original chopped barrel and the extension is visible. Finally, a simple "customization" was a small hole drilled in the stock immediately in front of the bolt handle - this kept a single round at the ready. Hard to see in the picture. Is this bullet holder an early, crude beginning of what eventually evolved into what we now know as a clip?!



-Mickey

No other takers to wax nostalgic?

Marlin 30-30. It got stolen.

Daisy BB gun.

Followed by a Crossman 760-xl pump--still have this in the utility room. It comes in real handy for varmints and nuisance birds--though my neighbor has often wondered about the noise.

First real gun was a single shot 20 gauge at age 12. Shot many a dove, quail, pheasant with it. I still have it and my son used it when he was young. It will go to my first grandson (or granddaughter if she is so inclined).

That is great. the first rifle I hunted with was a long barrel version of this one handed down through the family. Many a squirrel met its maker with this rifle

I still have that one and have the shorter barrel version like you show. These were a lot of fun. Though it has been forever since I shot them.

Savage 20g single shot.

When I was 6 my maternal grandmother forbade my dad giving me a bb gun. "He'll shoot his eye out!" So I got a 30-30 Winchester. In '75 Dad gave me a 742 Woodsmaster in .308, that was my deer rifle for about 20 years. When I was 14, after hauling hay all summer, we went to Gibson's in Marlin and I bought a 6" Colt Python I'd been drueling over for a year. For my birthday later that same year he gave me an 1100 20 gauge. Still have/still shoot them all.

NEF single shot 20 ga when I was 8, well really it was a red rider when I was 5, but I don't count that. Picked up an sks and a howa 1500 7 mag when I was 13, my first real deer rifle. Put a good cut on my eye the first time out.

Inherited a few of my grandfather's guns when I was 10. An Iver Johnson single shot .22, an IBM M1 carbine, and a Sears single shot .410.

Technically it was a Benjamin .177 air rifle, circa 1977, but then I also got a Remington 788 in .243 a couple of years later. Still have the 788.

S&W 25-2 45acp