First centerfire rifle
JT has his. Tam has hers.
Mine was a crappy Olympic Arms AR-15. It had an 11 inch barrel and one of those ridiculously long flash hiders on it that brought it up to 16 inches.
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December 18th, 2014 at 2:29 pm
My 1st centerfire was a U.S. Eddystone Model 1917 in 30-06 Springfield.
Passed down from my grandfather.
December 18th, 2014 at 2:40 pm
My first (at least the first not given to me) was a Ruger M77 Mark 2 All-weather in 270 Winchester.
The second was a Colt AR-15 A2 Sporter with a Happy Switch converted in 1984.
Sadly, both were lost in a tragic canoeing accident ’bout 10 years ago.
December 18th, 2014 at 3:04 pm
Mine was an SKS, sold it long ago
December 18th, 2014 at 3:28 pm
My first was a Russian Saiga AK 7.62×39, a “pre-ban” which I bought during the AWB. I still have it.
December 18th, 2014 at 3:44 pm
New pre-ban HK91 in ’89. Purchased legally in Massachusetts!
I was just done with USMC schools and had the money to burn. I wanted to continue working on my shooting skills with something heftier than the M16. It worked – went from Sharpshooter to Expert next time I qualified.
December 18th, 2014 at 4:08 pm
I think it was an SKS. I bought a hipoint carbine a few weeks later.
Now I know better.
December 18th, 2014 at 4:18 pm
Mine is a Remington 742 in 30.06, I still have it.
Surprisingly, even though I’ve had it since I was 16, it’s never gone on a killing spree.
I guess it’s just lazy or something.
December 18th, 2014 at 4:44 pm
My first two guns were a 188-series Ruger Mini-14 Ranch Rifle, and a Bersa Model 383DA .380 ACP (PPK clone). I enjoyed shooting them both for years, even after I had moved on to other guns, but eventually had to sell them due to financial constraints.
December 18th, 2014 at 6:04 pm
Mine was also a Lee Enfield No. 4 Mk 1*, property marked “US” and made by Savage Arms. Unfortunately it had a bulged barrel and threw rounds downrange sideways. My second centerfire rifle was a ’96 Swedish Mauser.
Which is why “cock-on-close” is what feels right to me.
December 18th, 2014 at 7:43 pm
Veeshir, well maybe your rifle’s failed “killing spree” is because it doesn’t have sufficient “clip” capacity. But then my AK has the hi-cap sufficiency and it too has failed.
December 18th, 2014 at 8:15 pm
Not a centerfire rifle, but it does shoot centerfire shotgun shells….I bought mine in Nov of 68. Savage Model 24D (22LR over a 20 gauge. Still shoots just as good today as when I got it. Love that little gun.
Remington 700BDL in .243 for xmas of 68, still have that one as well.
December 18th, 2014 at 8:30 pm
Dec 1963, Winchester 94 in 30-30. Still have it.
December 18th, 2014 at 9:14 pm
Remington 700 SPS in .30-06 I bought back in 2007. Still have it.
December 19th, 2014 at 12:23 am
My first (in 1968, when I was 12) was a Winchester model 1894, made in 1959, in the fabulous .30-30.
Sadly, when times were real lean and I desperately needed cash, I had to sell it. 🙁
December 19th, 2014 at 12:53 am
Sporterized Swedish Mauser in a maple stock my father had made. Still have it. Of course.
December 19th, 2014 at 9:29 am
SMLE with the magazine removed and the brass cartridges reloaded with black powder and No. 9 birdshot. I was nine, and it wasn’t really “mine”.
The one I bought with my own money, Mauser bolt action in .308.
December 19th, 2014 at 11:13 am
Yugo M70AB1 I built from a parts kit, back in the day when they were plentiful and not $1000+
December 19th, 2014 at 11:23 am
Wow… no one else has a Mosin-Nagant for their “first time”? I got my Mossie right out of boot; going from a butterfly-fart recoil on an M-16 to that was… “interesting”, in the Chinese curse sense of the term. Grew a few more chest hairs (and bruises) that day.
December 19th, 2014 at 12:18 pm
Mine first was a Savage .270 with a synthetic stock – an inexpensive rifle intended to be used on a deer hunt with my brother. I kept it, a shotgun, and my 10/22 locked in my bedroom closet in a STACK-ON gun locker.
It took the burglars about 20 seconds to pry the locker open with a pair of garden shears they grabbed in the basement where they entered. I’m just glad nobody was home when the bastards came upstairs armed with the garden shears and who knows what else from the tools down there.
Although we think they were two “helpers” a plasterer had hired for work a week before the break-in, we could not prove it.
And three years later the police called to ask if I wanted the rusted rifle back – it had been found in the woods behind my house. Stupid bastards finally realized after hauling it out of the house that a rifle without a bolt wasn’t gonna get much at a pawnshop. I told them to dispose of it.
December 19th, 2014 at 3:51 pm
First centerfire rifle that I ever bought was a Mosin-Nagant M44. Still have it.
December 19th, 2014 at 3:55 pm
Mine was a ‘sporterized’ Lee-Enfield No. 4 Mk1*. It and a hundred rounds of surplus .303 (with CORDITE!) was twenty-five bucks.
Some years later I traded the rifle for an AB Dick offset printing press.
MC
December 19th, 2014 at 3:59 pm
Marlin .30-30 when i was 14. still a beautiful, if under-used gun of mine.
December 20th, 2014 at 12:37 am
This crowd is definitely Enfield-centric. My first centerfire was a #5 Enfield with the bayonet lug crudely cut off. It turned out to have some very nice wood once I had Bubba’s varnish removed. Like most #5s, it won’t hold zero, but it’s a keeper.
December 20th, 2014 at 12:41 am
Marlin 336RC in 30-30, from the first production year in fact, around 1948 IIRC. Got it from one of my dad’s uncles when I was 13-14. It has some finish wear but it’s in perfect working order.
The first I bought myself was an M44 Mosin when I was 18. I still have it, but my carelessness after shooting corrosive ammo destroyed the barrel.
December 23rd, 2014 at 5:28 pm
A Mosin & a A mauser from the bucket o’ love at the local Rose’s.
The bucket o’ love was just that, a 55 gallon bucket in the sports section full of old battle rifles priced from 25 – 45 bucks apiece. Sometimes you got a gem, other times a piece o’ coal.
God, I miss the old days sometimes.
SteveA