Thread: First Gun

My first gun was a Remington Nylon 66 that I received as a Christmas gift in 1959. Still have it and it works like new.

Yes,,, great rifles,, I have one in brown.

Agreed. I have one inherited from my grandfather. Nickel with black. Weighs almost nothing!
Extremely accurate rifle.

The one I have, has never failed to feed & fire. Definitely a firearm to keep an eye out for.

Yes, as a kid, we went with Grandad to shoot the 22's often. STILL don't know where the Colt Woodsman is.

I highly suspect that no-shooting brother of mine absconded with it along with the Singer 1911!
Oh well. Like a good son, I did not creep off with any the day of the funeral. I waited for my mom to give me what was left.
The Nylon 66 and an A5 16 guage (rusty) became mine.
My 66 has a stock magazine, but seems I remember a model with a tube magazine under the barrel?

Mine is fed by a tube plunger through the stock,,,,

Yes! I remember Remington made some target pistols with the nylon, perhaps some other rifles?
Seems a short-lived thing, but they have stood the test of time quite well, IMO.

Every time I retrieve mine to show someone, I almost hit the top of the gun safe with it.
Silly how light it is!

Well, my first was a Western Field .22 bolt action rifle model M842. Made by Mossberg, I think for Montgomery Ward. Inherited it from my dad. Had a tubular magazine and could shoot short, long and LR .22. My dad put peep sights on it, and dialed in (when my eyes were young) I could shoot the eye out of a moving squirrel. Ok, that's a lie, but it was, like most guns I've owned, more accurate than I am. Fun days....killed a lot of cans and beer bottles with that one! My "baby" brother has it now....he's 62

Talk about sights, my 514 has some fine ones. Quite important for a 22, the oldies had some sweet 'rocky mountain' sights.
My mom still has an old single shot 22 which she remembers the day the family came across it lying in the road. Still has a resultant crack in the forearm.
It had some dead-nut sights. Super accurate. Seems like it is also a Remington, except you had to pull the hammer back at the end of the bolt. We used to light strike-anywhere kitchen matches with it at 25 feet or so. Big fun.
I put more shorts through that old thing before I had my first. Long rifle 22's were same price, but the shorts were challenging, to me. As much rat shot she has put through it at stray dogs, I hope there is something left someday!

My very first gun was a red ryder bb gun when I was about 8 years old. My first real fire arm was a 410 shot gun call the snake charmer