Remember Your First Handgun? Do You Still Have It?

[Alan]

I'm curious about everyone's first handgun. Do you still own it, or did you move on to something else? I still have mine—a bit beat up but loaded with great memories! Feel free to share your stories or any photos if you have them!

 

[Wiregrassguy]

Well, when I got married in 1968, my Dad gave me a Rohm .22 Short Snub revolver. Basically, a Saturday night special. I kept it until around 2010 when I sold it to a fellow who was looking for a .22 he could use to kill rabbits he raised for the meat. Now, when my Dad died in 2007, I inherited my paternal Grandfather's S&W .32 Regulation Police revolver from 1924. My uncle (Dad's brother) had it in his possession on the family farm when the sharecropper's cabin he was living in burned down. He retrieved it from the ashes and sorta fixed it up. It was in deplorable shape when I got it with residual soot still in the action. I had it spiffed up by Bob Cogan at APWCogan in Newville, AL. Here's what it looks like now.

Guy

 

[LOLBELL]

My first was a Colt 1911. A friend was having some financial difficulties and pawned it to me 40 some odd years ago. Before he repaid the loan, which was nowhere near what the 1911 was worth, he passed away from a massive heart attack. I tried to give it to his widow but she wouldn't take it. She said Eddie wanted me to have it.

 

[Eddie Southgate]

Not the first one I personally owned , no . I don't even remember where it went to tell the truth. I do have the first ones I ever shot though as both belonged to my pap originally and passed to my dad and then me. My two sons will get them and the rest of my stuff when I croak.