What was your first?

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not counting the BB guns and pellet rifles which the first of those came in at age 5.



A Remington Mohawk-48 12 ga
(A bare bones inexpensive auto loader based loosely on the 1100)

I was 13 and man that was a BIG deal to me!
There were a lot of "firsts" that came with that gun.


First time I was allowed to hunt alone .
First time I hunted alone I got my first pheasant
That was the first critter I ever cut and cleaned all by myself .
First shop class project was a gun rack for that gun


Taking the pheasant is a cool story.
i was walking thru a marshy area with tall thick grass/weed like stalks that were way over my head .
I'm busting thru this stuff just trying to get to the other side when I heard a "cluck" and what seemed like right under my boot up came a rooster ...literally so close I could of grabbed it .

It SCARED me..fo-reel..LOL

I figured out what was up as it cleared the stalks.
I shouldered and busted him at less than 20 feet out....took his head plumb off

this is the part I've never told before ....It was pure luck that I popped him square at the base of head and neck....

'coarse I never told anyone THAT part back then ....


..L.T.A.