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

[Damo300]

I bought a, I'm sure it was a Slazenger air rifle, from sports fair opening at Capalaba Park in about 1987.
Either that or "AP" All Pro, or Pro Am?

My dad got a 12g at the same time.
I saved my pocket money for a long time and decided I wanted to buy it. $25 from memory, because the lever action bb gun was $19, or there abouts.

Dad had to buy it of course, but I could carry the box to the car through the shopping center because I was a responsible gun owner now, although carrying a gun in public back then wasn't a surprise to anyone.
Funny how little events like that make you grow up a touch more as you come to being a younger adult, then you turf it all out the window as you hit 17ish, and you start again.... haha.

I was like rich.
Gave up in 96, although knowing what I know now.... Hmmmmm. We lost some good rifles in that.....owell.

Returned about 5yrs ago.
Found these tikka branded bang sticks had improved considerably, and had rumours similar to the old rem 700s. So I got one in 300wm.
Straight to the top of the "class" that we can have in this country, because anything bigger is a massive please explain.
I love that rifle. It's fed my family very well indeed.

I have others now but that 300 is my first Center fire that I can call mine, all the ones when I was younger were "dads". I could store them, use them, clean them etc, but if questions arose, they were his.