Do You Remember Your First Handgun? Let's Hear Your Stories!
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Ruger Security-Six, bought from a family friend when I was 18 in 1982. Not very smart and fell for someone else's song and dance shortly afterward and traded it straight up for a Bernalelli .380. Since then I've had a couple of other Security Sixes, and several more Rugers, but never another Bernadelli. Live and Learn
Ruger Standard was my first. I field stripped it to clean and oil as it was slightly used. All went well until I attempted to reassemble and then I learned the awful truth. I could not do it. I was almost in tears when my wife came to my rescue. She looked and laughed at me and then: SLAM....WHAM she picked it up and voila: done.She had never before seen a gun like this, but she put it back together in seconds. She laughed at me for years every time she saw that old Ruger, I wish I still had it and her too.
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Indigo22
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My first revolver was a S&W Mod 28 4" Highway Patrolman. I was in college with a Criminal Justice Major. The big N frame was a beast. Kept it a while but when I changed directions in my life I traded it off.
My first handgun purchase was a RIA 1911. Nice enough gun, but wrong for me. It was an educational purchase in my handgun journey. I learned what I needed in a gun because of it. It was the beginning of a journey.
Essentially, because I have large hands, 1911 single stacks are too thin for me to grip well.
My second gun was a bigger gun. Not as practical, but way more fun. A S&W TRR8. Now that's a gun I can shoot well.
Essentially, because I have large hands, 1911 single stacks are too thin for me to grip well.
My second gun was a bigger gun. Not as practical, but way more fun. A S&W TRR8. Now that's a gun I can shoot well.
First handgun was a Taurus raging bull in 44mag. Still have it and hunt with it. Many more have come and gone since then.
Its a very fun gun to ring steel with at 100 yards and I have never shot powder puff loads or 44 specials out of it. If your going to shoot a 44 shoot it for what its worth.
Its a very fun gun to ring steel with at 100 yards and I have never shot powder puff loads or 44 specials out of it. If your going to shoot a 44 shoot it for what its worth.
My first hand gun was something from the back pages of a magazine. It fired a lead shot ball #12 . Used a paper cap back by the hammer. At 5 feet it would pierce one side of a soda can. That's all I can remember as this was some 65 years ago. The caps were stick on for some of the toy revolvers that had individual cartridges back then.
