My first real sixgun

Great story, Chris. Send a picture and I'll add it to the "Branding Crew" over on Sixguns.com
Al

My first Single Action handgun

My first new sixgun was a .44 mag Super Blackhawk 10 5/8" barrel. Overkill? nope,perfect. I had my boss go in and get it with me(I was 18)Sold it for an engagement ring. Must have been worth it as she has no problem with me buying Keith commemoratives.Or old Broncos for that matter.

Sure hope you have gotten some more since then. I don't think I could go without at least one good sixgun. My wife lets me buy guns when I "NEED" one. I just usually have to figure out the need first! Chris

I seem to need one for every occasion.One for the truck,the car, personal defense,casual attire,dressing up lets not forget the boat,baby stroller.I think I just admitted I have a shortage of guns looking for more. Don

My first exposure to a 'sixgun', was when I was on duty at U-Tapao Airbase, Thailand, and assigned to the 'Security Augmentee' team of the Security Police Squadron. I was issued a good ol' M-16, (one 20-round magazine), a Motorola radio, and a Smith and Wesson K-38 Combat Masterpiece, with a belt holster with all the cartridge loops filled. Since my personnel record verified that I had been a competitive Junior NRA member, with medals, I was given the pass on qualifying with the revolver. I did get the 5-minute review on reloading it, for the comfort of the supervisor. I worked that detail, for the remainder of my first year's assignment, and a good portion of my concurrent second year of assignment there. After all those years, I have two revolvers. A Taurus M82, and a S&W M15-3, both 4-inch models. The .38 Special cartridge is so much a part of being an American GI veteran! (What else would a man dressed in a good fedora and a good trenchcoat carry?)

Hi SF.....: Glad to hear from you and thanks for your service to our country by the way. Nothing wrong with a 38 Spec. and many of us have shot one often or at least used the cartridge in a 357. My Python loves 38's and is very accurate with them as quite a few cottontails have found out. Chris

My first sixgun (handgun too) was an Old Model Ruger Blackhawk in .357 with the 4 5/8 inch barrel. Nice old gun.

A year after the last post, I'll add my two cents.
 
My first handgun was nothing to keep or remember with  lot of fondness, except that it started me off on a wonderful 40 year journey with handguns (I started late, after 4 years in the Navy). My first car was somewhat of a dog, too, a $50 dog, but I've done better since, and you gotta to start somewhere.
 
The gun was a Hawes Marshal as I remember, a .22 single action sixgun. 6 inch barrel, plastic stag-look grips. Musta had a heck of a barrel-cylinder gap because it was almost as dangerous behind it as in front,  but by golly it was a handgun and got me started. The next was a Blackhawk .357, followed quickly by a Detective Special,  then a 4" square butt Kit Gun. The Blackhawk got a set of Herrett's stocks and really helped me learn to shoot a handgun. Both the Dick Special and the Kit Gun taught me how surprisingly accurate a snubby and a tiny, light .22 could be. Then came the Colt New Frontier .22/.22 Mag, the Series 70 Gov't Model, the Service Model Ace,  the Super Blackhawk,  the....
 
Well, you get the picture. I guess I'm a little fonder of that Hawes Marshal than I thought.

Even the ugliest old dog can have fond memories associated with it. As you said, the Hawes was not a great starter but it did get you going and that's what counts, I would classify that as one great gun in my book. Chris

When I was 18 in 1975, I bought a S&W Handejector in 455.  It was carried but not used much by the soldier, about a 98% gun.  The ammunition was not to hard to find at the gunshows, and being 18 and working I bought a lot.  I shot that fine revolver often, really enjoyed it too.  Then the Canadian dollar took a dump, and American money was worth 45-50% more than Canadian.  You guessed it, an American offfered me what I thought was stupid money for a gun I had spent $75 to aquire, plus a 45% exchange rate, I sold it.  Of course I wish I never had, as it was my first revolver.  I have kept my first long gun though, a Brown Bess India Pattern musket, but that is another story.
 
I gathered from reading the posts above mine that Americans must be 21 to buy a revolver.  Interesting that we have more restictive gun laws and always have, but I could buy a handgun at 18 and you guys had to wait until your 21.  To continue in the same vein, we could buy machine guns until about 1975 and there was no transfer tax.  If I had realised prohibiton was coming I would have bought one and got grandfathered in.  Oh well, such is this merry-go-round that we call life.

I think suppressors are legal up "North" also, am I correct? Chris

I pretty sure they have been illegal since Trudeau was Prime Minister.

Sorry, I guess living in the U.P. doesn't quite make me a real expert on Canadian gun law....... sorry about the machine guns, I don't suppose they were really a big crime deal but mostly a political statement.  Chris

How does something with no name and allmost no sights in some 32 caliber rate as a first. after some work it shot some of the time. The second was something special, a High Standard maybe second model, not the one with the hammer, O how well it shot.
Traded for a Walther PP 32
Hey there, lots of new names on here, good and welcome.
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My first sixgun was a Colt 1851 Navy made by Lyman. It shot well, but I had to sell it. Bought it back later and gave it to my son. Next was a 1858 Remington. Then a Ruger Blackhawk that I still have. I guess it was my first real sixgun. It is sitting beside me as I write.

I use to read articles by Jeff Copper so it was natural my first handgun was a Colt Series 70 Government in 45acp. The gun cost $150 new......