ok, I will start this off, first bb gun

[desertplinker]

I grew up out in the country. Most of the neighborhood boys had 22s. But we also had some people who didn't like that. I had a hand me down Red Ryder from my older brother, it was a blast. Back then my eyes were much better than now, I could follow the bb in flight and this particular RR shot bbs in a spiral.  amazing that it still would hit a target at distance but it was hit or miss.

 Some boys had Benjamins and Sheridans but since I had a 22 long rifle I just did not get the bug for those until about 50 years later, as some of you might know that I am 75 years old. I know I shot hundreds of bbs through that RR and yes, I pulled the trigger with my hand under the cocking lever and got smashed by it. Once was enough.

[Back_Roads]

 My first, to be followed a year later by a Crosman 760, see bottom 760, pics borrowed from the web, never looked back

[Blowpipe Sam]

I never had a BB gun as a kid.  I started off with a pellet rifle.  Slavia 618. I got a thrown away Remington Air master about 2010 but I never shot BB’s through it.  I picked up a Legacy 1000 a couple of years ago and decided that it would be a dedicated BB shooter for garden pests.  So I guess it’s my first BB gun!

[avator]

I have a couple of the resin (or whatever they used) stock and foream 760s I picked up here and there. I need to put some life back into them sometime. So many airguns and so little time.
This new BB Gun Gate is giving me incentive to get them out and get them going.

[lefteyeshot]

About 9 or 10 parents gave me a Daisy model 102 I think, didn't have a forearm. When I was 12-13 I bought with grass cutting money a Daisy model 1894. In Dec. 2011 when I was 60 I bought my first pellet rifle from Walmart. A Beeman RS2 dual cal. for $139. I'm 72 now.

[Matchstickshooter]

I never had a BB gun as a kid.  I started off with a pellet rifle.  Slavia 618. I got a thrown away Remington Air master about 2010 but I never shot BB’s through it.  I picked up a Legacy 1000 a couple of years ago and decided that it would be a dedicated BB shooter for garden pests.  So I guess it’s my first BB gun!

Years ago I had a lot of fun bringing a Slavia 618 back to life.
 I had to make a new piston seal for it,as a lot of "cut up nails" were embedded  in it.
 Wasn't terribly powerful, but was pretty accurate!

[Matchstickshooter]

 I had a lever bb gun when I was about 10. Wasn't a RR, so it must have been Crosman.
 My Dad set up a string with a clothspin,between two little saplings, holding a Necco wafer.   
Hit the wafer,not the clothspin .  (course, some got eaten)!

[jackinil]

Model 25 at  about 9 or 10 years old. Next was a Daisy CO2 pistol,Model 200? Memory is a bit fuzzy. It had a reservoir that you filled with bbs and a lever that loaded 5 for semiauto firing. Occasionally it would malfunction and shoot the5 full auto. Fun times.

[PasadenaMike]

Yeah I didn’t start with a BB gun as well I had a Diana break barrel (from what I was told) recently I tried bbs but I like accuracy and don’t enjoy bbs flying back at my face so off they went to a better home. My slingshot shoots bbs well

[avator]

Yeah, BBs are for beer cans and BB traps. Nothing hard or "You'll shoot your eye out, Kid".

[ricksplace]

Daisy 1894 spittin image when I was 10 years old. I'm 70 now. I wore that thing out. My dad set up a range in the basement for me.  I shot it A LOT.
Now I have a Crosman 74 and a 761xl with a smoothbore (somebody changed out the rifled barrel for a smoothbore). The 761xl is unusually accurate with Daisy bbs and gives .75" groups at 10 meters with 2 pumps for 330 fps. It's a keeper.
Oh yeah -I also have a Crosman 781 SSP that throws nasty fliers so I don't shoot it much.

[EdinGa]

I found a Daisy Pal, or whatever they were called back in the 1970s, buried in the mud on a canal bank behind our house. My dad cleaned it up and made a buttstock for it and the rest is history.

[ER00z]

I believe my first 'bb gun' was an inexpensive Marksman branded pistol, the spring type with tilting barrel to load. Bought it out of curiosity/for plinking, as an adult. Never owned a bb gun growing up (unless you count a scatter gun, Lol).

[TorqueMaster]

Not really mine, but I started out with a hand-me-down Daisy Buck 105, and the neighbors had an 1894 and a Marksman 1010 pistol we played with (1010 broke -junk pot metal.) 

My first was either a Daisy 840 or a 1200 pistol -- probably the 840, which inspired interest in the pistol as well.  I remember splurging for pellets at KMart for the 840 -- though a smoothbore, it increased precision dramatically, being able to hit a 2" bike bell at 25 yards or so... that was the gateway drug that led me to order receiver halves with scope rails (my early model 840 was lacking) and splurge for a 4x15 scope. 

Completely infected, many more would soon follow...Daisy 188, Crosman 1600 powermatic, 760s, 880s, Crosman 357 with all 3 barrels...Daisy 44...tried 45 yard silhouettes with some success with a Crosman 2100...and so on...     Y'all have a similar story, I'm sure, lol. 

[brewbear]

I got my first one at 18, a Marlin 30-30  followed by a few more PBs...Maaany years later, just before C-19 made it's debut, I bought a Crosman 1322 because I really didn't have the time to go to a range but at the new house (in a semi-rural area) I have a very respectable 75 yards range. Enter Umarex Peacemaker, my first but not last bb gun...
To be continued....

[Novagun]

My first BB gun was given to me about 15 years ago. It is a Condorifle. And it has the word Mulgora on it  .
All this talk of BB guns prompted me to get it out  it still shoots . You can see the little balls fly and they don't fly straight.

[avator]

I'm really glad this new BB gun gate is getting some action. It's bringing many of us back to where we started.

[longislandhunter]

I remember my very first BB gun like it was just yesterday.  I was around 10 years old.  My parents had just bought some vacant land up in the Catskill Mountains and during the summer we would spend every weekend camping on our property.  I spent endless hours exploring the fields and woods and that's where I developed my intense love for the outdoors.  My dad even bought me a pair of walkie talkies (they were huge)  so he could stay in contact with me as I explored.  One weekend, after setting up the tents and camping gear my dad surprised me with a large box.  I opened it and found a lever action BB rifle and a tube of BB's.  I think it was a Daisy "Spittin Image" BB rifle.  Anyway, I remember being so excited that I wanted to bust.  My dad showed me how to use the rifle and made sure I understood that I was only to use the rifle when he was with me.  I remember shortly after we were sitting in camp and I saw a blackbird land at the top of a tree near our tents.  I asked my dad if I could shoot it and he said "sure".  My mom overheard and told my dad not to let me shoot any birds but my dad  told me to go ahead.  I took aim, fired and the blackbird fell to the ground like a sack of nickels.  My mom started yelling at my dad, although I must admit I was so thrilled with my first harvest that I barely took notice.  After that I was told by my dad that I was not to shoot any more animals and I complied.  Years later my dad told me that the only reason he let me shoot at the blackbird was because he didn't think there was any way in heck that I was going to actually hit the bird and that he felt really bad when I did hit it.  As I got older I was able to explore our woods and fields by myself with the rifle, sticking to my pledge not to shoot at any live animals.  Those days are some of my fondest memories of my youth and they also instilled in me the love that I have for the outdoors, hunting, fishing and especially for our land.  Today my mom and dad are gone and I am the owner of the land, which I lovingly take care of and hunt and fish on every year.  Even though so many years have passed since I ripped open that box containing my "spittin image" BB gun every single time I go upstate and am on our land those memories come flooding back to me and I smile.   I now prowl those fields and woods during hunting season with modern day PB rifles but those days exploring with my beloved BB gun were the best    I don't know whatever happened to my BB rifle, for the life of me I can't remember.  I'm sure it was stored away in the attic of my parents home but my searches always failed to locate it.  The house was sold long ago so I cannot continue my search, but that rifle will always live in my memories 

Jeff

[desertplinker]

Jeff, what a great memory and thank you for sharing your personal story. That is just the kind of story I was hoping people would share. By the way, they have an adult version of the Daisy Red Ryder, same air rifle just a longer stock for us grown-ups. I see one in your future.

[longislandhunter]

Steve, I do in fact plan on buying a replacement in the very near future  and even though I have plenty of air rifles to pass on to my granddaughter when she's old enough I have a feeling that it will be the first BB gun I introduce her to 

Jeff