What was your first?

[CalWhit33]

As I get ready for my upcoming vacation back to the California foothills where I spent many years hiking across miles and miles of land, I got to thinking about my childhood and learning to shoot with my dad. So I ask you what was your first firearm and and any story that you might like to share.

Mine was an old Winchester pump .22 with a screw missing on the left side of the pump. I was the fourth generation to to behold this rifle. I had learned how to shoot with it and taken out many a squirrel and woodpecker with it, even shot a quarter out of the air once. Then on Chirstmas after all presents have been open I can still hear my grandpa say "whats that back there behind the tree" to this day I still have the paper towel tag with my name on it. I later got tired of iron sights and upgraded and had my dad buy a Ruger 10/22 with scope for my 16th birthday. I traded my dad that pump .22 and some cash for my first pistol a Colt Series 70 Govt Model around that same time.