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I was digging through the vault earlier today and picked up a rifle that I haven't thought about much lately, but nevertheless, holds a bunch of memories for me. It's the very first rifle I ever owned and was a present for me on my 14th birthday back in 1965. I still remember how excited I was when I received this Remington 552 Speedmaster so many years ago.
Back then I was able to tie it across the handlebars on my bicycle and peddle out to some fields that were a couple of miles away and torment the sh*t out of the ground squirrel population. I still have a brick left over of the Sears .22lr ammo I used to buy with my pop bottle refund money.
Two years after I got this rifle, I turned 16 and all my efforts and money went into buying, fixing (a lot) and then repairing (also a lot) my first legal car, a '55 Chevy Belair Hardtop that I paid the princely sum of $50 for. Unfortunately, the car and subsequent motorcycles, along with discovering girls, left me little time or money to shoot much and the rifle kind of went into the back of the closet and remained there for many years.
Pulling it out has left me waxing somewhat nostalgically about those long ago days and by golly I think I am going to take the old .22 out to shoot up some ammo. I may even shoot up some of that old Sears ammo that I picked up for it so many years ago.
Date code points to it having been made in August of 1965, three months before my birthday that year.
Does anybody else still have their first gun?
Back then I was able to tie it across the handlebars on my bicycle and peddle out to some fields that were a couple of miles away and torment the sh*t out of the ground squirrel population. I still have a brick left over of the Sears .22lr ammo I used to buy with my pop bottle refund money.
Two years after I got this rifle, I turned 16 and all my efforts and money went into buying, fixing (a lot) and then repairing (also a lot) my first legal car, a '55 Chevy Belair Hardtop that I paid the princely sum of $50 for. Unfortunately, the car and subsequent motorcycles, along with discovering girls, left me little time or money to shoot much and the rifle kind of went into the back of the closet and remained there for many years.
Pulling it out has left me waxing somewhat nostalgically about those long ago days and by golly I think I am going to take the old .22 out to shoot up some ammo. I may even shoot up some of that old Sears ammo that I picked up for it so many years ago.
Date code points to it having been made in August of 1965, three months before my birthday that year.
Does anybody else still have their first gun?
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