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Mustang Gregg

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I don't remember the brand name - or if the gun even had one. I was 12 years old in 1959 and tried to pull a fast one on my folks who wouldn't let me have a handgun. I ordered a .22 cheapo pistol for $8.00 out of an add in the back of a magazine ... can't remember what magazine either except that it was some kind of macho adventure magazine, not a gun magazine. When it arrived, the front sight sat at about a 45 degree angle and the gun seemed to be made of pot metal. Even at 12 years old I was smart enough to know it wasn't safe and never even fired it. At the same time I had an old hand-me-down little Stevens rolling block .22 rifle that had a broken firing pin and that I kept making firing pins for from nails with a file.

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It was a Mossberg model 340KA bolt action 22 rifle. Shot good back in '59 and still shoots great today. Used it last year to dispatch a distemper infected racoon in the back yard. :blush:

 

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October 2001, I was living alone and bought my first gun..... a 9mm Russian Makarov, then a .22 rifle and scope. Still have them. Still shoot them.

 

 

 

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A single-shot .22rf, bolt-action J.C. Higgins from the kid across the street, for $5. I think I was about 13 or 14. It must have had thousands of round through it when I bought it, and I put many thousands more through it. It got to the point where it was spitting back in my face. By that time, I was 18, and picked up an M-1 Garand. $79.95 from Klein's Sporting Goods...in downtown Chicago! Next was a used Winchester M-70 in .30-06 for hunting. Put a Weaver K-4 on it. Can't recall what it cost. First handgun was Dad's M1911A1...no charge! Also a Luger that I stupidly traded off on a calculator when those things cost about the same as the pistol! :blush: Wish I still had them all...

 

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