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Mine was a 700 BDL 30-06. I was 14 yrs old and had saved up the money. Paid around $140 bucks for it new back in 1973. Started reloading for it in 1974.

First was a 600 Mohawk .222. Followed by 760 in 300 Savage and 700 in 25.06

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6mm Varmint Special

Model 600 in 350 mag. Got it for my X-mas present age 12. 56 years later I got rid of that kicking little cannon.

When my Grandaddy passed away, Grandma gave me his Remington 33 single shot… I was like 20 years old. I have many rifles and few shotguns, but the last one I would let go of would be that Rem 33….and with the iron sights I can’t hit much with it anymore, but I like to look down the barrel once in a while and dream of days gone by.

My first was a 514 Boys Rifle for $10 second hand. Great story

Back in the late 1950s my parents bought me a Remington Model 511 Scoremaster 22 rimfire. It was the first of many Remington rifles and shotguns.

First Remington I owned was gifted to me when I was 9, it was a Remington 33. He was a friend of my grandfathers, I liked to listen to his hunting stories as they were as close as I could get to hunting back then since my dad had no interest. Still have it in my gun cabinet. He couldn't believe I was that old and no one had given me a rifle yet. I can still remember setting the car after dropping him off, he asked us to wait right there he'd be back. Next thing I knew I had my first rifle.

First center fire, christmas 1971,11years old...
Rem.600, .243
Still have it...always will..

Mine was probably an adl .222.

Mine was a Remington 870 pump shotgun. I hunted with with a lady and rabbit hunted with her husband. He had it it priced at $100 but took in trade a big Delta landscape in oils that I had done. She saw it in my classroom and wanted it for her living room. She persuaded her husband to make a trade. I had been offered $500 for the painting at one time. We both were happy with the deal. I later found an imp cyl barrel for $50 and really smoked the doves and rabbits. Still have a 870 turkey gun with 21” barrel and screw in chokes that I traded my first 870 for. I use it for turkey and home defense. At one time I had all my bases covered by Remington: REM 742 in 30/06, REM 870 in 12 gauge, and REM 552 in 22 and a 510 single shot 22.

My first Remington was a 1100 20ga my father bought for me in 1970. I was 13 years old. The first Remington rifle I bought myself was a nylon 66 22 about a year or so later. soon after that I bought a mod 742 woods master in 30-06. I've had many M-700's, several 1100's in 410,28, 20, 12ga. A 3200 12ga trap gun and 2 1187's.

1858 Navy .36 revolver .

First was a walnut stocked model 7 in 243, 10ish I'd say. I remember I was so eager to take it out we hadnt even put a scope on it yet. Sitting in a deer stand he let me shoot at one about 250 yards away in a clearcut knowing I wouldn't hit it...and I did not. Anyway, he decked it out with kwiksites, a tasco worldclass or proghorn, and gunchaps.

We hunted in a shotgun only county mostly, but were members elsewhere that allowed rifles. I killed a few with it. Had a piebald doe come out one evening and I popped her perfect and she ran. Shooting corelokts at the time. We found her the next morning. When dad picked me up from school the next day he had one of those early stainless synthetic adl mountain rifles in the truck in 270. He said heck with a 243, I was bigger and older anyway. Don't know how many deer I've killed with that gun. Sort of retired it the last 10 years or so since I discovered the joy of a model 7 in 708.

1949, i was 14 years old, my father put a new model 141 Rem pump on lay away with a small deposit at a store in Bristol Pa.
Total cost at that time was $104.95.
I killed several bucks with it before trading it for a new condition 760 in 30/06 with a Weaver 2.5 power scope at Paul Jeagers gun shop in Jenkintown Pa.

1981 7600 pump 3006.Still have it shoots awesome.

Model 660 308. bought it for $95 New, The summer I graduated HS. Night shift stocking shelves at the local A&P food store.

I’m not positive but I think my first Remington was my 760 Deluxe left handed .308

Purchased around 1984 maybe?

Model 700 in 280 Rem, took my first deer with that rifle, and still have it.

My grandfather gave me his Model 1100 12 gauge in 1979. Still hunt it every year. My first rifle was a Model 700 BDL my parents bought used and gave me when I was 18. Been hunting that rifle 40 Years now. These two will be the last to go and I hope they stay in the family.