6mm Remington wrote:What was the first gun that you ever fired ?
Who let you have a shot ?
How old were you ?
My old man sent me away with a couple of his Navy mates for the weekend when I was 8 years old.
They gave me a shot of a Winchester 9422M
That was back in 1975.
on_one_wheel wrote:.177 break action air rifle, as kids we had free range with that thing, would've been 8 years old at a guess, it was the coolest thing ever, we'd plink until there were no slugs left than start jamming anything down the barrel that fitted like tiny gum nuts, seeds, sticks and even a worm once.
Noisydad wrote:At age 12 it was a Lithgow single shot .22 with manual cocking but even then what I really wanted was a flintlock rifle, a Bowie knife and a tomahawk. I’ve made up for it and living the dream now lol
No1Mk3 wrote:Colt Woodsman 22RF pistol, followed by a 22RF Springfield Model 84 the same afternoon, Step-Fathers when he was home from sea we used to go to a bush block he owned. I must have been about 8 or so, so mid-1960's. I still have that Springfield but it doesn't fire anymore, need another bolt for it to scavenge internals.
bigrich wrote:22lr of coarse . my first rifle i bought was a m38 husky in 6.5x55 . bought in '95 from Amart for $68 . i could outshoot a mates scoped stirling 22 mag with the open sights on the swede back then
Robin wrote:SLR I think 7.62mm , When I was in Army Cadets back in 1992, my first shot scared the s**t out of me, but after a few rounds, I was hooked.
bladeracer wrote:Robin wrote:SLR I think 7.62mm , When I was in Army Cadets back in 1992, my first shot scared the s**t out of me, but after a few rounds, I was hooked.
An SLR in the nineties? That seems odd, though I guess they still had some around. I wish they still had them in WA in the eighties. In '81 to '83 in Cadets we drilled with deactivated Vietnam-era L1A1's, but when we went to Northam we fired the M16 with the Army - 20rds semi-auto on paper. At the end of the shoot one of the instructors did a full-auto mag dump to impress us
I did see an article a while back that the UK wants to bring back a modernised L1A1 with rails, but I don't know if it was genuine or somebody's fantasy
I found it!
https://veteranweb.asn.au/news/the-slr- ... tish-army/
Robin wrote:bladeracer wrote:Robin wrote:SLR I think 7.62mm , When I was in Army Cadets back in 1992, my first shot scared the s**t out of me, but after a few rounds, I was hooked.
An SLR in the nineties? That seems odd, though I guess they still had some around. I wish they still had them in WA in the eighties. In '81 to '83 in Cadets we drilled with deactivated Vietnam-era L1A1's, but when we went to Northam we fired the M16 with the Army - 20rds semi-auto on paper. At the end of the shoot one of the instructors did a full-auto mag dump to impress us
I did see an article a while back that the UK wants to bring back a modernised L1A1 with rails, but I don't know if it was genuine or somebody's fantasy
I found it!
https://veteranweb.asn.au/news/the-slr- ... tish-army/
I think they gave all the old stock to the Cadets in the 90s, don't know what they use today.