Your first Handgun. Do you still have it ?

[skynet1999]

It was a Harrington and Richardson 922 Bantamweight that I got for $10 and a case of cheap beer from a migrant worker. I had to deburr the cylinder where it had been dry fired to make it work. It had a terrible trigger pull and sent the rounds in the general direction of where it was pointed. It grew feet when my druggie brother stole it.

I also own a H & R Revolver, .22lr model 622. Made in the 40s passed down from my grandpa to my stepdad to me it's old and beat up but it's a family gun. It's so old and Warren that the cylinders don't always move on their own sometimes you have to assist them

 

[skynet1999]

I also own a H & R Revolver, .22lr model 622. Made in the 40s passed down from my grandpa to my stepdad to me it's old and beat up but it's a family gun. It's so old and Warren that the cylinders don't always move on their own sometimes you have to assist them

Correction 1958

 

[Star43]

I have always liked H&R guns. I am originally from Mass and very aware of the H&R company history. I have always felt they made a very good if not excellent gun for the money. To me, they don't get the respect that they deserve.

 

[Skoopski]

1973 Ruger Super Bearcat. It was grandpas, started shooting it at maybe 5 years old. Given to me by my grandfather when I was 18. Still have it. Will always have it.

 

[Star43]

1973 Ruger Super Bearcat. It was grandpas, started shouting it at maybe 5 years old. Given to me by my grandfather when I was 18. Still have it. Will always have it.

Love hearing that.....makes your Grandpa proud.

 

[burner]

Nope... Dad bought a 25 caliber Saturday Night Special, and I ended up with it a few years later. Used to take it "plinking' at a family friends ranch. Finally traded it to my son-in-law for a chain saw. Still have the chain saw. Does that count??

 

[Star43]

Nope... Dad bought a 25 caliber Saturday Night Special, and I ended up with it a few years later. Used to take it "plinking' at a family friends ranch. Finally traded it to might son-in-law for a chain saw. Still have the chain saw. Does that count??

Nope........but at least you got a chain saw......and to think of it a little more, Yeah, I guess it does count as it is still in the family, so Yeah !!

 

[RC44Mag]

Nope... Dad bought a 25 caliber Saturday Night Special, and I ended up with it a few years later. Used to take it "plinking' at a family friends ranch. Finally traded it to my son-in-law for a chain saw. Still have the chain saw. Does that count??

It gets points for being able to do more damage then the lowly .25 but retract the same number of points for being harder to conceal. Breaks even.

 

[Aqualung]

While I was a youngster growing up in NJ, my first handguns were CVA blackpowder kits, a Colonial flintlock and a brass-framed 1858 Remington cap & ball. I still have them.

My first modern handgun came after I got married in 1995 and moved to Philly. That one is my Stainless Pig SP101 in .357mag. I carried it for a long time until I upgraded to a Kahr MK9. Piggie is the nightstand gun now and is dressed up with some Sack Peterson elk antler inserts:

Aqualung

 

[buckeyeshooter]

No, a Ruger Mark 1, got it new and I believe slap wore it out. I fired 500 rounds a week through it for 6 years and then used it for hunting and trap line use along with fun shooting. Bluing was very well worn and started to open up in the group department when I sold it,

 

[Star43]

Well, at least you shot the heck out of it !!

 

[Watertender]

No, a Ruger Mark 1, got it new and I believe slap wore it out. I fired 500 rounds a week through it for 6 years and then used it for hunting and trap line use along with fun shooting. Bluing was very well worn and started to open up in the group department when I sold it,

You fired over 150K of rounds through it and then sold it! I bet it still works too.... Did you ever have to repair it in any way?

 

[buckeyeshooter]

You fired over 150K of rounds through it and then sold it! I bet it still works too.... Did you ever have to repair it in any way?

No, it never had any mechanical problems. I would bet it still works. If I had known then what I know now, I would have sent it back to Ruger for a reblue and kept it. I have thought about buying another, but I ordered a Smith and Wesson 18 with Target trigger, Target Hammer and Smooth Target Stocks and have been shooting it from 1983 on.

 

[GasGuzzler]

Stolen so no.

 

[Star43]

Sorry it was stolen, but you are not alone. It also happened to a lot of guys on this thread....

 

[extex]

H&R 949. It's long gone and I don't remember how or where.

 

[Star43]

They were good guns. I have a 950, basically the same gun but nickel, and I think it is a very well made gun...Who knows, maybe you will come across another 949....You never know??

 

[akmania]

No, a Ruger Mark 1, got it new and I believe slap wore it out. I fired 500 rounds a week through it for 6 years and then used it for hunting and trap line use along with fun shooting. Bluing was very well worn and started to open up in the group department when I sold it,

I never knew you could wear one out!

 

[Star43]

It's probably still going strong !!

 

[dobegrant.45]

My first handgun was a Blackhawk .357 6 1/2" had it for a few years but sold it to buy a 6 1/2" security six. There have been hundreds since 1974