LF Meaningless Chatter and Get Aquainted Thread I think all shooters have a certain nostalgia for their first weapon, with which they learned marksmanship and basic gun safety. Whether it be a Daisy Red Ryder BB gun or a .410 shotgun, every fire-arms enthusiast I've ever met remembers his gun with a certain fondness.
So what was your first gun? Mine was a Marlin .22 auto. I saved up for it when I was around twelve, by trapping raccoons for their pelts...(back when furs were still worth something.) It had a 17 round tubelar magazine. I had it for around ten years, and went through about forty thousand rounds with it. Then, I "lent" it to my uncle's step-son in '84 or '85. He tried to convert it to full-auto by butchering the receiver. Kinda lost track of it, after that...
