Daisy Red Rider (wore out 2), Benjamin pump, then a Winchester 77 22LR. I wanted a Marlin 39 but parents wouldn't spend the extra $15. Since then I have owned a number of Marlins and they remain my favorite rimfire rifles.

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Brand new wrapped in a bow under the Christmas tree Marlin/Glenfield Model 60 with the squirrel and acorns instead of checkering.

Own one of those myself...loves mini-mags!

Started at the age of 7 shooting rats with a 9mm bolt action shotgun around the barns and farm orchard. BSA Metor 177 air rifle came next, followed by a Bruno .22RF and a italian o/u .410. 16bore belguim sidelock at 14, and a .222. 7.62 at 19. The rest is history.

A single shot Sears "Premier" made by Mossberg and they called it the model "B".

I started out with a Daisy BB gun that I bought at the local Winn's 5 & Dime store when I was 6 years old. I rode my bicycle down town and paid for it with change I had saved up. It couldn't have cost more than a dollar or so back in the mid-60s.
It was deadly accurate out to 30-35 feet or so and the souls of many birds could testify to that. I remember many times compensating for windage and trajectory as needed as I could see the BB in flight.
From the the Daisy I graduated to a "big bore" 22 RF. It was a Stevens single shot. I killed many purple cactus buttons with it and also (regretfully) quite a few armadillos.
Also killed my first deer with a 32-20 Win. when I was 7 years old while sitting on my grandfather's knee in a blind.

Mine was a Winchester Mod. 67. The short barreled short stocked boys rifle. I still have it. My kids learned to shoot on it then quickly to a Ruger 10-22. I bought my own 10-22 as soon as I moved out and got married at 19. I still have both of them

My uncle's Winchester model 67. My cousin would cock it for me before I was strong enough to and I would go out looking for a squirrel. The problem was that I only had 1 shot then I would have to go back to the house so he could cock it again. It was a happy day for me when I was big enough to cock it myself.

My very first attempt at shooting was a plunger gun. My mother had 3 or 4 blue birds hanging on the wall, After a while I hardly ever missed. My father asked me to shoot a fly on the ceiling. I licked the plunger laid down and nailed it.
That night my dad was bragging on me to a friend and pulled the plunger off the fly and ceiling. He also pulled off a fair chunk of plaster. roger

I started shooting with an M-16A2 at Edson Range, Camp Pendleton. That was a high that I'll never forget.

.22 lithgow small arms factory rifle.
It was my great grandfathers.
My daughter uses it now.

A few years after my mom bought me a Marlin Glenfield 66 in 22LR, I met my soon to be best friend all through high school and my early Army years. His father sat me down and spent a lot of time teaching us both to shoot center fire rifles in a manner that would head us in the right direction for the rest of our lives. Turns he was

TSGT Charles B. Ainscoe, USMC, 100-17V, 1958 Wimbeldon Cup winner.

I didn't realize the importance of his teachings until I was in my 40's.

Alan

I learned on a 22 LR: JC Higgins Model 29 and Anschutz competition rifles in high school.

For pellet, it was .177 Feinwerkbau competition rifles.

I have my kids shoot:
1. 22 LR with iron sights
2. 17 HMR with scope and iron sights
3. Feinwerkbau .177 pellet
4. Daisy BB

I started shooting W/a mand-me-down "Rochester Precision Air Rifle".

This isn't that particular rifle, but the condition was about the same.



I killed a few Cottontails, birds, chipmunks W/it. It didn't have enough snot for Fox Squirrels that were usually too far up in then trees.

Daisy air rifle.
then competitions with walther air rifle.

Mauser semi-auto rimfire
Mauser bolt rimfire

Mauser 98 in 8x57js
FN98 in 7x64


miroku 12 ga.

My first firearm was a Winchester Model 1906 pump with ruined bore. So Dad helped me buy a then-futuristic Browning T-bolt at the old Bon Marche department store in Tacoma, Washington. It came with a peep sight, and was so accurate that my Fort Lewis-based Marksmanship Merit Badge instructor in Boy Scouts was very impressed with it, and he was used to the Remington 40X .22s. With a sling, I shot it prone, kneeling, sitting and offhand.

.22 LR BSA / Martini and a SBS 28 ga, then, at about 11, a BSA .22 Hornet and SBS 16 ga...
.303 Enfield #4 mk 1, in Army cadets, and got H&H 12 ga when 18, still got it...
Still use a .22, .22K-Hornet, 6.5 X 55, and 9.3X74R, also have an ancient 12 ga Baikal hammer gun... serious choke !

GSSP--TSGT would be a technical sgt (Tech Sgt) and they are only in the AIR Force USAF--not USMC? Rank or branch is wrong.

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GSSP--TSGT would be a technical sgt (Tech Sgt) and they are only in the AIR Force USAF--not USMC? Rank or branch is wrong.

That depends on the year. Tech Sgt. was a rank in the U.S. Army for many, many years...used in the same circumstances a "Spec4" or "Spec5", etc. is used now. IIRC, it was also used in the USMC for a while.

Alberta Canuck--Thanks--I should have known that--embarrassed to say I didn't.

I started with a 1920's British air rifle made by the Midland Gun Company. Then went on to a Brno mod.2 22lr, followed by a sporterized Lee-Enfield .303

I learned to shoot at Boy Scout summer camp with a Remington 514 - a bolt-action single-shot. The instructor was a crusty old guy named Sarge. We had to use our Scout knives to extract the spent cases.

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Ithaca Model 49 single shot, 22lr.

Seriously, that's the same as my 1st rifle.