VID, Remember your first MG and the first time you pulled the trigger.

[No. 6]

I do remember well. Ciener Uzi. First 4~5 rounds were semi, then dumped part of a mag and the entire firing line went silent.

 

[Mackjack]

First time, I had a drill sergeant yelling at me.

Bahahaha yes. Me too

 

[boomer535]

The second machinegun I ever shot was a better story then the first. It was in 1991, I shot the Sten MKII I bought for $600. I had a 32 round runaway. I learned then to start a new gun with a few rounds instead of a full mag. Turned out the recoil spring was too stiff, replaced it with a spring from a parts kit and everything was fine after that. First MG I shot was a 1928 Thompson I rented. First MG that was my own was a PS M10/45 with Sionics type Suppressor I got from SWD just before Christmas 1989. It was a very good Christmas that year.

 

[Starvingboy]

Mine was at a 1919 build party in Indiana. Some guy brought a home made Sten he had registered back in the day. He cut the tube wrong and had piece of metal brazed along one side to make it run right. He said "Want to try it?" and I was hooked. Some other guy had a single-shot 50bmg, but I never did get to try that one.

I started looking and saving, despite my fellow gun-guys laughing at me. Eventually, I settled on a BRP/Stemple. I convinced my better half by pointing out that I was going to have a select fire gun, one way or another, so I had better do so on the up-and-up. I STILL don't have a Sten, but one of these days... especially if I come across THAT particular Sten. It has a special place in my heart.

 

[Gaujo]

I was about 10 years old. My uncle had just acquired an SWD M11/9, and let me shoot it into a stump. All the instruction I got was "hold onto this strap and be careful it climbs". First three or four in the stump, the rest were headed in an upward arc for heaven! Glad we were in the middle of nowhere!

 

[Sock]

National guard m-16.

Meh.

 

[boomer535]

Mine was at a 1919 build party in Indiana. Some guy brought a home made Sten he had registered back in the day. He cut the tube wrong and had piece of metal brazed along one side to make it run right. He said "Want to try it?" and I was hooked. Some other guy had a single-shot 50bmg, but I never did get to try that one.

I started looking and saving, despite my fellow gun-guys laughing at me. Eventually, I settled on a BRP/Stemple. I convinced my better half by pointing out that I was going to have a select fire gun, one way or another, so I had better do so on the up-and-up. I STILL don't have a Sten, but one of these days... especially if I come across THAT particular Sten. It has a special place in my heart.

Stens are a blast. Got mine in the early 90's. Bought a box full of magazines and two spare parts kits for it. My favorite SMG till I got that CF-W bolt for my M11/9.

 

[JohnnyE]

1977, Bought my first FA Gun a MAC 10 45 for $250.00 Then a S&W 76 for $650. Wish I had kept INVESTING IN them back then.

FIFY.

Ah, hindsight...

 

[JohnnyE]

I fondly remember my first FA experience. My word, I was spoiled.

I was in a position to be offered the opportunity, by a USMC Colonel, to invite two dozen of my close friends and colleagues to all go down to Marine Corps Base Quantico and spend a day at the range. We arrived early and had an array of armaments available to us to shoot.

In addition to non-FA offerings, like the Beretta 92 9mm, Remington 700-based sniper rifle, and others, we all got to shoot the HK MP5-SD, Colt M4, SAW, M2 Browning, Mk 19 grenade launcher. I even fired a SMAW (an 83mm RPG), with which I got to blow stuff up!

It was one heck of a day...but it was all in the pre-cell phone era, so there is no video.

 

[twzadms]

First time was a MP40 that was a friend of a friends father in his backyard. I loved shooting it and had absolutely no experience with open bolt guns before that day and thought it was pretty cool but then my mother, may she rest in peace, got behind it and I was so impressed with the rainbow of brass, hooked was an understatement. 2nd time was a MP5SD into a 55 gal drum of phone books, instant love of silencers.

 

[LawBob]

1980 MGB

 

[JohnFreeman]

There's something about letting loose with the first burst and realizing "holy s***! I own a machine gun!"

 

[ferndog1]

My first F/A experience was in basic training on the M16. Of course like anything else the military has a way of making it "not fun." The days before we had training classes then had to dry fire at targets for 8-hours! Then to the range finally! We had to RUN several miles to get to the range. On the firing line they said if you encounter any problems put your hand up. My rifle stopped firing so, I put my hand up and got a unpleasent "tap" on my ear protectors, well my weapon was on full auto not semi is the reason it stopped firing (it was empty). There was so much noise on the range it was hard to tell. AFTER firing we had to police up brass for a couple hours, then run back to the barracks. The experince did endear me to the M16, and led to me eventually owning several over the years, I still have two Colt M16A1s.

 

[boomer535]

Took my 12 year old Son Tony to shoot his first SMG on July 5th. Here he is shooting our M11/9 with CF-W bolt at a killer Clown. I am really proud of him, he is a natural.