I just realized something...

[SaxonPig]

Never really hit me before but I still have the very first center fire handgun I ever bought. Got it in February of 1973. Paid $135 for it which was a lot of money to a guy making $1.65 an hour.

In 1975 I added the adjustable sights (don't recall what the smith charged me for that) and the ivory stocks ($32.50). In 2012 I had it engraved.

We have, as they say, been around some.

 

[curt.45]

i don't suppose you'd take $200 for it?



very nice looking .45

 

[Minorcan]

Very nice, you obviously oved the gun to do the grips and engraving. Old friends are always best when together.

 

[lee n. field]

Nice Rock Island.

(just funnin' ya.)

 

[xcc_rider]

Probably feels like a comfortable old friend when you shoot it.
I've still got my Combat Commander I bought in 74. I don't remember how much I paid for it because it was my brothers CCW and I bought it used from him.
I put adjustable sights on it too and it's still wearing the worn Pachmayr grips I put on it in the late 70's.

 

[jughead2]

just realized

XCC i bought my commander in 1974 too. paid 169 bucks for it new out the door. still have too.

 

[Brian48]

I wish I still have my first gun, which was a custom built on an Essex frame. Learned a lot tinkering with that old 1911. Never should have sold it.

 

[SpareMag]

Mine is a S&W Mod 28-3 Highway Patrolman .357 revolver, bought from a Baptist minister /FFL in Kentucky. It isn't going anywhere.

 

[rodfac]

Saxon, I always had a thing for those J-frame, Smith revolver sights on an auto. Elegant to say the least. Had them on a Browning Hi-Power that I carried on my first tour in Vietnam (Jimmy Clark did the work)...and couldn't figure a way to get it home when I DEROS'd...some REMF probably got it and is telling his grand-kids how he held off a battalion of VC while ensconsed in his suite at the Brink Hotel. Rod

 

[SaxonPig]

Pretty sure it's a K frame sight assembly.

My second CF handgun and first revolver was a short Ruger BH in 357.

 

[g.willikers]

While it wasn't my first handgun by a long shot )) but I still have a revolver from about that time.
Same better half, too.
Some things are too good to trade off.

 

[jackstrawIII]

Awesome!

I too have my first two pistols I ever bought... but that was only 6 years ago

 

[TailGator]

The first handgun I bought is no longer around. It was a cheap revolver (Armenius, if I remember how to spell it), and I wore it out.

I have the first firearm I ever shot, though - a Winchester 69A that my dad bought before I was born, and which I shot on my uncle's farm when I was seven or so. He gave it to me a year or so before he died.

 

[ShootistPRS]

I have the first handgun I ever fired, the first handgun I ever bought and the first center-fire rifle I ever fired. The first hand gun I ever fired was my dad's Ruger semi auto - before the Mod I. It still shoots well, though I spend less time than I once did. The first handgun I ever bought was my Ruger Security-Six 357. It still goes everywhere with me and it still shoots 1" groups at 25 yards when I can hold it still. The first center fire rifle was my dad's 03A3 in full military trim from the CMP. He eventually bought a semi-finished stock on it and I remember the endless nights he spent rubbing boiled linseed oil into that stock. When he passed I got it and shot it until I could no longer see the sights and target at the same time. I had the bolt turned and a scope mounted and I have continued to shoot it.
There is a lot of history in those guns.

 

[vba]

Very nice gun but what I got out of your post is that you made $1.65/hr. I remember those days very well.

 

[DMK]

SaxonPig, that 1911 was/is very a nice 1st handgun! You had exceptional taste sir.

My first handgun was a comparatively utilitarian CZ75B (the top one in the picture below). It cost me $300 in 2001. Still one of my favorite shooters actually. I'll never sell it either.

 

[BearBrimstone]

Very nice. I still have the first firearm that I ever owned (Mossberg bolt 12 gauge I've had since the 90's), but I do not have the first one I ever personally purchased (Sig Pro 2340). I traded that one away a couple years ago when I was itching to try something new and didn't have the extra cash to buy something.

 

[Robk]

I do not have the first pistol I owned anymore. But I have my first 1911 still. going on 27 years and it has changed a bit from the day I bought it. A tweak here and a tweak there. But it is the only pistol I still have from my early years of collecting. Ever evolving collection, but always that same 1911.

Beautiful pistol by the way.

 

[SIGSHR]

My Browning HP purchased in 1967. $110, a lot of money for an E-3 (Army) back then, though Uncle Sam did provide me with room and boards.

 

[Nodak1858]

I think it was a day or two after my 21st birthday I went out and bought a Ruger P90 45acp. Still have it but don;t shoot it a bunch. Solid gun, built like a tank if you run out of ammo in a fight you can use it as a club. I don't know how it worked it's way back to the back of the safe. It shoots nice and I haven't had any issues with it. I should shoot it more.