first gun purchased

[wrenchman]

I have noticed that there is a rather large group of shooter here and was just thinking to my self while cleaning the first gun I ever purchased that js a marlin model 25 in 22 I was 18 and was 42 years and many guns ago how you guys started down the road.

[bigrich]

my first when i was 17 was a 1942 6.5x55 husky in immaculate condition for $69 from amart all sports at underwood qld . i put the bolt and ammo in a plastic bag and walked home with it . no one batted a eyelid back then . with swede military ammo it out shot a mates brand new stirling 22mag at 100 . the stirling had a scope , my husky was open sights. i had real sharp eyes when i was young

i got out of it in 1996 due to howards laws , got back into shooting about 11 years ago . first gun i put money on was a winchester supergrade with a madco barrel in 6.5x55 at rebel gun works. it was silly accurate , .4's with 140sst's and 46.5gn re22 , i think, but it didn't feed well though, so i moved it on . in hindsight i should've got it rebarreled to 30-06 which probably would've fixed the feed issue with the longer 30-06 case . oh well