Remembering Your First Handgun: Do You Still Have It?

[Deleted member 85]

My first handgun was a Hi-Standard 9-shot .22 revolver that my grandfather passed down to me. Unfortunately, it was lost.

 

[nomad79416]

My dad called me one day and asked if I could meet him at Furrs Family Center. I went and found him looking at a pallet stacked with Ruger Security Six .357 magnum in stainless with 4" barrels. We bought one each. In hindsight we should have bought them all as they were priced at $129.95 each. We didn't have the idea to find consecutive serial numbers but we had matching pistols for 48 years. I inherited his upon his death and have now given his pistol to my son who was proud to have Grandpa's gun. Now another father/son combination have a common thread connecting them.

 

[sotexas]

S&W Model 59 and it's long gone

 

[DonD]

S&W .357 Magnum, yes, long gone. Don

 

[Twraska]

Browning Hi-Power

 

[bdubose]

1979 Ruger Blackhawk Convertible in 357/9mm with a 6" barrel.
It was a shooter with 158 grain JSP.
I still have the weapon, lost the 357 cylinder during a move so my wife uses the 9mm loaded with rat shot for snakes.

 

[Stang66]

Smith |& Wesson 9mm Auto back in 1975 can't remember the model number full size walnut grips very nice looking brand new in the box. …nope don't have it.
This pistol never shot well it was sold at about a year old. Nope me and my cousin would do a lot of plinking and target shooting out to 59 yards. I shot his Browning 9mm and it was a tack driver . Between us we had around 10 different brands and even more types but Nope we couldn't get it to shoot. Poor sucker that bought it I didn't know them and even told him it didn't shoot well but it was pretty and that's what he wanted.

 

[Bubbalou7]

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.