Remembering Your First Handgun: Do You Still Have It?

I purchased a Glock 17 gen 4. I sold it but wish I still had it. I put a lone wolf disconector and trigger springs along with a ported 5.25 barrel and ameriglo sights. It was a great pistol.
 
18yo in '84 before turning 19yo i bought a 629 8 3/8" 44mag for $440. Yup, I remember the price also! I wish I had it still. Sold it to feed the family in early 2000's
 
My dad and I built one of the early .45 Kentucky style muzzleloaders. We even did the “bluing” and finished the stock. Still have it but have not taken it out in a long while. May dig it out for a range trip soon.
 
Bubbalou7 said:
I bought a cheap 9mm (do not remember the brand name) semi auto. It was very accurate (if the round actually did not hang when trying to load into the chamber). The reason it hung is because the barrel did not angle up after firing and the round was forced to do a 90 degree angle load. Because the barrel did not ramp up but stayed fixed made it accurate. This was back in the 1980’s. After using it at a range two times I returned it to the guy selling and got my money back. I did not know anything about the workings of semi auto handguns at the time. I figured it out after reading an article in a magazine showing how semi auto handguns worked and the barrel angling upward for better loading after each shot. In retrospect that was weird to say the least.
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Fixed barrels usually shoot more accurately than tilting ones since they stay lined up with the sights. But in a 9mm, that usually means a strange setup, which makes sense with the weird hang-up you saw.
 
Bought a Ruger Super Single Six Convertible in 1965. It was stolen with most of my guns in 1995. It had sentimental value and a notch on the grip that I put on it after I got shot with it when it fell and hit the hammer. I know, the Cowboy Rule, never carry a round under the hammer, but I was an invincible teenager. Did a number on my innards, but I survived.
 
My first handgun was a Ruger Single Six Convertible - .22LR/.22 WMR, sold it and regret it to this day, but that led to a Super Redhawk and a Super Blackhawk 44 Magnums, which I still have.
 
First handgun was S&W model 19-4, .357. I bought it used and someone had done some trigger work. First time I shot it, i put one in the berm about 3 ft over the target, because the trigger was SOOOOO light. Sweet shooter and I still have it. In fact, still have every pistol I ever bought.
 
First was a Ruger Blackhawk 357 bought in 1976. Stamped something like Celebrating 200 Years of Independence - 1776 - 1976. Traded it for a broken dirt bike in 1978. Sure wish I hadn’t. Dirt bike was gone 2 years later - I would have still had the Ruger if my head wasn’t in a dark place.
 
Sounder said:
First was a Ruger Blackhawk 357 bought in 1976. Stamped something like Celebrating 200 Years of Independence - 1776 - 1976. Traded it for a broken dirt bike in 1978. Sure wish I hadn’t. Dirt bike was gone 2 years later - I would have still had the Ruger if my head wasn’t in a dark place.
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You mean like this one ?
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