Thread: Best first firearm?

Not my first firearm but the first 'best' one! A Harrington & Richardson .22 Young America revolver with a 5" barrel that I was given (in pieces)for my 12th birthday. I rebuilt it, made a new coil mainspring system, made a set of antler grips and reblued it with Parker Hale 'Old English' hot blue (that meant I had to fold and weld a sheet steel tank and did the job on our gas stove). I learned a hell of a lot from that gun until it was taken off me by the Police when I was 19 (along with a few other tasty items!). I suppose that was only fair as a cop gave it to my father in 1939 instead of throwing it into the tide in Invercargill.