OvEr_KiLL Posted January 28, 2012 Report Share Posted January 28, 2012 the 1st and only gun i own (so far) is a miroku mk 38 trap 30'' grade 1 which has been teagued with 9 chokes...which i love to bits :D i found it on guntrader and travelled 2h 30mins to go and pick it up from glenluce in scotland...i got it for a very nice price aswel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackpowder Posted January 28, 2012 Report Share Posted January 28, 2012 My first gun was a hammerless folding single barrel 12 bore bouth C.O.D. from Elderkins dastardly awkward thing to carry when broken as far as I can remember. SOld it after a year when I bought a double barrels 12 bore Army and Navy hammer shotgun from a gamekeeper friend. Used it pretty much for most of my shooting career and am just back from our last club shoot of the season 16 pheasants and one woodcock, my contribution being two pheasants and a woodcock, all first barrel kills and a couple of clean misses. The gun is labled K quality , which I take as Keeper quality , round action and top leaver and with an immaculate wood to metal fit. A very elegant piece, and yes the smell of those paper cases- even just when you opened a box of shells never mind firing them. Blackpowder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted January 28, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2012 My first gun was a hammerless folding single barrel 12 bore bouth C.O.D. from Elderkins dastardly awkward thing to carry when broken as far as I can remember. SOld it after a year when I bought a double barrels 12 bore Army and Navy hammer shotgun from a gamekeeper friend. Used it pretty much for most of my shooting career and am just back from our last club shoot of the season 16 pheasants and one woodcock, my contribution being two pheasants and a woodcock, all first barrel kills and a couple of clean misses. The gun is labled K quality , which I take as Keeper quality , round action and top leaver and with an immaculate wood to metal fit. A very elegant piece, and yes the smell of those paper cases- even just when you opened a box of shells never mind firing them. Blackpowder Do you remember the smell of eley grand prix paper cased cartridges that were varished...the smell just wafted out of the box when you opened it..Hah, we are daft as a brush. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devon Fox Posted January 28, 2012 Report Share Posted January 28, 2012 My first shotgun was a Greener single barrel, must have been bought for me by mt Dad around 1982/83 - I remember it cost us about £35. I can remember my first shot as well, dad got me to walk ahead of Him through a corn field one summer as He had seen some pigeons going in, as they went up I fired, dont think I even aimed, and down came 3 of the blighters I was a chuffed little lad I can tell You. It meant a lot, as My father wasnt a shooter,didnt have any interest, but got the licence etc just so I could shoot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frenchieboy Posted January 28, 2012 Report Share Posted January 28, 2012 My first shotgun was an old double barreled (SxS) 16 Bore which I paid something like seven pounds and ten shillings for. It had big old silver plated hammers on it and lots of engraving and was made by Robert S Garden of London. I really loved using that shotgun but my Dad went and sold it (No doubt to buy himself a few beers) when I joined the army - I never really forgave him for that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cant hit rabbits 123 Posted January 28, 2012 Report Share Posted January 28, 2012 (edited) Mine was a Bettinsoli Diamond, which cost me £595 split between myself and my Dad. Within a few months I bought a Pump action (In my signature), followed by a side by side then I sold my Bettinsoli and got my Onyx. Dad bought the 391 just after I had my pump action. Edited January 28, 2012 by cant hit rabbits 123 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmoz82 Posted January 28, 2012 Report Share Posted January 28, 2012 (edited) My first shotgun was a lanber sporting delux which I still have, the wife uses it now as I have a silver pigeon, its 11 years old its had thousands and thousands of carts through it and is still as tight as the day it left Spain lol Edited January 29, 2012 by jmoz82 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dominicrobed Posted January 29, 2012 Report Share Posted January 29, 2012 My fisrt shotgun is a beretta 686e sporting and I love it , it will never be sold as its my pride and joy ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackpowder Posted January 29, 2012 Report Share Posted January 29, 2012 Do you remember the smell of eley grand prix paper cased cartridges that were varished...the smell just wafted out of the box when you opened it..Hah, we are daft as a brush. Yes nothing like it, I can remember when still an apprentice in the 50's buying a complete 100 4 x 25 boxes at half price for pigeon shooting supplied by one of the government rabbit clearance schemes at the time. Thought it was riches beyond compare. Blackpowder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Floating Chamber Posted January 29, 2012 Report Share Posted January 29, 2012 (edited) 5th. May, 1962. My first shotgun, an Italian s/b 'Fusil Special' by Gardone, arrived by mail order. It had a ventilated rib and looked ahead of its time. I can state the very date, because I still have the green ten-bob (50p) Licence that I dashed to the Post Office to buy. The gun cost just over £20. Being a left-hander, I missed many a shot because my trigger-finger often pushed the safety to 'on' as I prepared to fire. Over the years I owned three of these guns. Today, I still have one, and the missus uses it with a 'Four-Tenner' insert. She is left-handed, too, so I removed the simple transverse safety and fashioned a left-hand safety from a piece of 12mm x 3mm B.D.M.S. Edited January 29, 2012 by Floating Chamber Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lxtav Posted January 29, 2012 Report Share Posted January 29, 2012 Ten year old lanber sport delux that i bought at xmas after getting my sgc. Just got to learn how to hit the clays now: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshwarrior Posted January 29, 2012 Report Share Posted January 29, 2012 Mine was a folding Belgium 410 sbs pitted bores from black powder that my dad gave me I'd used other and this but this was mine now. Dad was given it at 7 or 8 as he gave it to me on my 8th birthday, I carried it all day with the box of shells I bought from pocket money from beating on a walked up day I didn't see anything to shoot at all day but it didn't matter I had my own gun. Still got it hardly used for years now having spruce up since my son was born in August. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bad Monkey Posted January 29, 2012 Report Share Posted January 29, 2012 My first was my Lincoln No2 that i bought from my father in law last year, then the next day i went out and bought a AYA Yeoman as a back up, love 'em both and see no reason to ever get rid of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JR1960 Posted January 30, 2012 Report Share Posted January 30, 2012 (edited) An old Ward hammer gun that was my Uncle's. I used it when he took me shooting as a kid and gave it to me when I was old enough to have my own gun, thirty odd years ago. Still in the cabinet. Once the cottage is finished i'm going to have it tidied up, deactivated and put it over the fireplace in the kitchen. Edited January 30, 2012 by JR1960 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilR Posted January 31, 2012 Report Share Posted January 31, 2012 I started shooting clays, skeet predominantly, in 1977 at Bedford and District GC, long shut now after a High Court battle with the local council. My first gun was a Miroku 800S skeet gun bought from John Eastaff's gun shop when it was located at Elstow storage depot, the gunshop was part of his builders merchant business. I've still got an 800S although not my original gun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlistairB Posted January 31, 2012 Report Share Posted January 31, 2012 Parker Hale SBS, bought in 1987 from Joe Wheaters Gun Shop in Lincoln, dont know which model it is and i cant remember how much it was, but i've still got it and just had it's barrels reblacked. AB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawkeye185 Posted January 31, 2012 Report Share Posted January 31, 2012 Hi the first gun I shot belonging to my dad was a G E Lewis side by side twelve bore hammer jobbie that allmost broke my shoulder at the tender age of 12. my first kill was a milky doe and I still check the exact spot even after 40 years when I pass it I still have the gun and often wonder does it have any value apart from sentemental? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lewj Posted January 31, 2012 Report Share Posted January 31, 2012 my first is the only 1 i have had and still have my Remington spr 453 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beretta28g Posted January 31, 2012 Report Share Posted January 31, 2012 Erm Used to use dads Beretta, then i got a lanber, Then a beretta Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wharf Rat Posted February 1, 2012 Report Share Posted February 1, 2012 Breda 3" 4.10 folder. Christmas Day, at some point when Thatcher still lived at No 10 and pre the 2+1 semi-auto law. The trigger pull is so heavy you tend to shoot about 3' high. Soon got a brilliant BRNO sxs 12g, but I still have the Breda. It is like new, and my kids and girlfriend will be learning with it next, and I expect to teach my grandchildren with it also. I will fix the trigger pull one day... and the barrel shortening thread shows just how tight they are choked when new, it's almost a 4.10 rifle! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_evil Posted February 1, 2012 Report Share Posted February 1, 2012 Had a Zabala SxS from the 80's, was a nice thing double triggers and good wood but it hurt using it on clays Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alanl50 Posted February 1, 2012 Report Share Posted February 1, 2012 My first was a single barrel 12g of italian origin, you broke the gun by pulling the trigger guard back, I got a whole package cleaning kit 4 boxes of cartidges, and a game bag(gas mask bag lol) for £20.00 and my then boss bought it for me, it kicked like a mule and the first thing I shot was a hare, and I still have all the old style licences issued to me somewhere in the house. I progressed to a single barrel Baikal with an ejector I thought I was the mutts lol then numerous SxS Baikals then on to under and overs lol Ive waisted thousands on guns lol We lived on Baikal cartridges, you could illuminate a field at night apart from deafen all the nearby villages, Red rival carts and Blue rival, Sellier and bellot and the the one that always killed me, Polish made, Powam Pionchi(I think thats right) rolled turn over and akin to black powder lol Happy days Alan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted February 1, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 1, 2012 My first was a single barrel 12g of italian origin, you broke the gun by pulling the trigger guard back, I got a whole package cleaning kit 4 boxes of cartidges, and a game bag(gas mask bag lol) for £20.00 and my then boss bought it for me, it kicked like a mule and the first thing I shot was a hare, and I still have all the old style licences issued to me somewhere in the house. I progressed to a single barrel Baikal with an ejector I thought I was the mutts lol then numerous SxS Baikals then on to under and overs lol Ive waisted thousands on guns lol We lived on Baikal cartridges, you could illuminate a field at night apart from deafen all the nearby villages, Red rival carts and Blue rival, Sellier and bellot and the the one that always killed me, Polish made, Powam Pionchi(I think thats right) rolled turn over and akin to black powder lol Happy days Alan I remember the sellior & Belliott cartridges, used to buy them in packs of 10, they were all stuck together with wax and only half of them went off ! QUESTION !! is it true that Holland&Holland used to buy the barrell tubes from Baikle as the steel used was a superior quality, something i was told once. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0145wirbelwind Posted February 1, 2012 Report Share Posted February 1, 2012 I used to shoot pistols and rifle at a near by club. When the pistols got band the club closed , so i p/x my rifle for an old Remington 1100 . It still shoot really well and it will always have a place in my gun box. My first new shotgun was a 686 game gun back in 1995 wicth i have just p/x to buy a new MK38 sporter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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