Old Boggy Posted June 26, 2015 Report Share Posted June 26, 2015 This has probably been done to death before, so I apologise if it has, but as title says, what was your first shotgun. I'm sure many on here like me started out with airguns and moved onto shotguns. Mine was one of the ubiquitous single barrel folding Belgian .410 handed down from my older brother when I was 11 in 1959. Licence, 5 Bob at the post office and a box of Eley Fourlong from the hardware shop. No doubt, someone on here can recall the price of cartridges then. Mine were paid for from the proceeds of a paper round and sale of rabbits at the butchers. Come on then, what was yours ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saddler Posted June 26, 2015 Report Share Posted June 26, 2015 Winchester 1897, on FAC Had it about 20 years already....nice design Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deadeye18 Posted June 26, 2015 Report Share Posted June 26, 2015 My first shotgun was a webley 9mm bolt action that my dad bought me.Love it.I will pass it on with all my guns to my young un eventually. Winchester 1897, on FAC Had it about 20 years already....nice design niiiiice! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malkiserow Posted June 26, 2015 Report Share Posted June 26, 2015 9mm bolt action garden gun Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshwarrior Posted June 26, 2015 Report Share Posted June 26, 2015 I borrowed my Dads folding 410 SbS cartridges where made with 303 cases as the hulls. I was meant to buy powder etc but nicked a few 16 bore cartridges from time to time as well. First gun that was mine was a "modern yank thing" as dad called it a Beretta 682 silver action that I still shoot today Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scully Posted June 26, 2015 Report Share Posted June 26, 2015 Legally, a folding .410 'poachers' single barrelled shotgun with hollowed out stock, which an old boy gave me to shoot the rabbits in his garden. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
la bala Posted June 26, 2015 Report Share Posted June 26, 2015 Greener GP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Boggy Posted June 26, 2015 Author Report Share Posted June 26, 2015 Legally, a folding .410 'poachers' single barrelled shotgun with hollowed out stock, which an old boy gave me to shoot the rabbits in his garden. Come on then Scully, what about the illegal ones, no-one will ever know ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scully Posted June 26, 2015 Report Share Posted June 26, 2015 Come on then Scully, what about the illegal ones, no-one will ever know ! Aha, I was nobbut a nipper and led astray. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest stevo Posted June 26, 2015 Report Share Posted June 26, 2015 A norica .410 3 shot bolt action . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay_Russell Posted June 26, 2015 Report Share Posted June 26, 2015 The first shotgun i was given to use in the early 90's was ny grandfathers .410 folding sing barreled shotgun. It had a hexagenal barrel. No idea what happened to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Underdog Posted June 26, 2015 Report Share Posted June 26, 2015 Pedretti single 12g. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wraivi Posted June 26, 2015 Report Share Posted June 26, 2015 16 bore sxs Geco single trigger ejector, now in my nephews care 20 years later! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
browning123 Posted June 26, 2015 Report Share Posted June 26, 2015 A single Spanish 12 gauge, I purchased new from the Exchange & Mart in 1958 for £3.10 shillings, I also saved up for the gun from my paper-round wages. When shopping my Mother used to buy 6 x Eley Maximum No 6 cartridges at a time from our local ironmongery, paid for from the sale of rabbits, hares & pigeons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Al Posted June 26, 2015 Report Share Posted June 26, 2015 Victor Sarasqueta boxlock side by side. I wish I still had it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiffy Posted June 26, 2015 Report Share Posted June 26, 2015 im a fair bit different to most of you guys here as although im a lifelong hunter it was always airguns, its only a few years ago i got a shotgun, first shotgun was a lanber sporting delux. was a gorgeous gun but one, as things changed and i all but stopped doing sporting clays (only clays i did where trap) i didnt seem to use so i sold it... then relaised how much i enjoyed an over/under in the field as a change to my semi-auto so bought another at christmas.. this time around a bought a browning 525 sporter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bodach Posted June 26, 2015 Report Share Posted June 26, 2015 Mine Argyle single barrel, bought out of the Gratons cat, paid for 5 bob a week from my paper round, told me mam it was a big air rifle, how things have changed in 45 years! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zapp Posted June 26, 2015 Report Share Posted June 26, 2015 A double trigger Baikal OU that my dad bought me when I was 15. I had to get rid of it when I was posted to Northern Ireland while in the Army, but through a bizarre set of coincidences it ended up coming back to me 13 years later and I still use it to this day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackpowder Posted June 26, 2015 Report Share Posted June 26, 2015 9mm 'ACME' garden gun with something like a 22 inch illegal barrel, long since hack sawed into several pieces. Followed by an Italian single barrel folding 12 bore a horrible piece of kit which made way fro an Army and Navy hammer gun, still in my cabinet 55 years on. Blackpowder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrew f Posted June 26, 2015 Report Share Posted June 26, 2015 A SxS .410 folding poachers gun had to remove three inches of stock so it would fit i was only 8 at the time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alycidon Posted June 26, 2015 Report Share Posted June 26, 2015 First shotgun I used was a 9mm Flobert rimfire garden gun, took me 18 months to nail a rabbit with it. First shotgun I bought was a new Laurona O/U, £76 from memory with a box of 3 inch ICI number 1s thrown in,.very tightly choked, it made way for a string of mainly Miroku's some years later. A Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
littlerob Posted June 26, 2015 Report Share Posted June 26, 2015 First shotgun I owend was a AL391 URIKA 26inch barrel sweet gun but didn't fit and had a synthetic stock as my every day gun got rid of it 2 years later for a new baikal that do fits quit nice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Livefast123 Posted June 26, 2015 Report Share Posted June 26, 2015 A 1981 Lanber sporter......still got it as my only shotgun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
browning123 Posted June 26, 2015 Report Share Posted June 26, 2015 9mm 'ACME' garden gun with something like a 22 inch illegal barrel, long since hack sawed into several pieces. Followed by an Italian single barrel folding 12 bore a horrible piece of kit which made way fro an Army and Navy hammer gun, still in my cabinet 55 years on. Blackpowder Those Italian single's used to kick like a mule - as you rightly say 'a horrible piece of kit' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackpowder Posted June 26, 2015 Report Share Posted June 26, 2015 Those Italian single's used to kick like a mule - as you rightly say 'a horrible piece of kit' Under lever opening the lever was like a big trigger very difficult to carry broken open and safe. Blackpowder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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