What was the first handgun you bought for yourself, with your money? Privately or otherwise.
Mine was a Baikal IJ-70 Makarov, I bought it for $50 with four mags, and 400 rounds of ammo. Still have it. Ahh, the good ol' days. Here she is with my Ruger.
Charter arms Bulldog 44 special. I reloaded many rounds of ammo for it with a ten dollar Lee loader and several pounds of Unique. My first upgrade to the Lee Loader was an RCBS scale so that I could improve on the original 44 special ballistics.
It was either the S & W 6 inch model 19 that I paid about 120 dollars for new in the box in 1966, Or a GI 1911 that I also bought dirt cheap from a private individual in 1966. Still have both handguns.
Of course i had bought several long guns with my own money well before that, some of the long guns were bought in the 50's. No 68 GCA in those days. Pay your money and walk out of the store with the gun and a cash register receipt.
What was the first handgun you bought for yourself, with your money? Privately or otherwise.
Mine was a Baikal IJ-70 Makarov, I bought it for $50 with four mags, and 400 rounds of ammo. Still have it. Ahh, the good ol' days. Here she is with my Ruger.
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What was the first handgun you bought for yourself, with your money? Privately or otherwise.
Mine was a Baikal IJ-70 Makarov, I bought it for $50 with four mags, and 400 rounds of ammo. Still have it. Ahh, the good ol' days. Here she is with my Ruger.
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The first handgun I ever purchased was a Beretta 92fs. I later sold this because I just didn't feel comfortable with all of the safeties it had on it. I never really got that good with it. I blamed it on the gun not being real accurate. I ended up with a Smith 64 revolver which shot like a dream. I was able to shoot this much better and felt comfortable with not having to deal with safeties when I might need it. That was about 15 years ago, I wish I had this gun back and almost bought one a few times just to see if I could now shoot it accurately. I have learned a great deal since then and now realize the problem was most likely me and not the gun. The lack of safeties drew me to the Glocks, and I simply fell in love with them.
German made.22 cost me $10 that was 33yrs ago.
Don't know how many rounds I put through it, no matter what other calls that I have owned/own I always have 3-5 .22 handguns around.
Me too, except I bought mine new in 1984. It was very reliable but I sold it a few months ago after I realized I had not shot it in 10 years due to the trigger.
Remington Rand M1911A1, marked US Government property, WWII surplus. Parkerising well worn, with original brown bakelite grips. I should never have sold it.
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