To the best of my memory it was my Colt SP1 carbine.
I could have sworn I got it in 82 but the serial number suggests otherwise and it must have been 83. I have memories of shooting it with my father in Florida and I moved to Iowa in the summer of 83. Maybe I just got a really fresh one from the dealer.
My #2 and #3 are 1982 date code Hk91 and Hk93 rifles but I know for a fact that I didn’t get those until 1983 (possibly 1984).
At any rate that is the one that started it all. When I was going to school in Iowa it would regularly be in the back of my Blazer with about 500 rounds of ammo and right after school I’d hit the local range for an hour or two of shooting.
SP-1 CAR,1983; aluminum buttstock, slickside, stock everything. Bought for bizarre but serious circumstances. Sold it when I no longer felt the need for it. Handy and intimidating but very limited in triggers and optics in those days.
Relocated to Great American Desert. Times change; an updated replacement seemed prudent. Never say never.
Romanian SAR-1 I picked up when I was twenty years old back in the SARs hay day before they were no longer imported, it looks almost the same with the exception of a US Palm grip, VCAS, MI flash hider, and the lower handguard has been stippled. It’s now my truck gun.
To date I have more Kalashnnikovs than I do Stoners I don’t consider myself to be a collector by any means. The SAR-1 got the ball rolling for me . . .
Here is my first AR, a Bushmaster C8 clone. I bought this new when I was 18 back before I knew better. I eventually replaced everything except the lower itself as I learned about better AR’s and eventually sold it off at a loss to fund my Colt/Noveske rifle I currently own.
Truth be told I put 4000 rounds of various ammos through it over the course of a year and never had a single malfunction, and I always used Lancer mags or the USGI w/ MagPul followers. I paid $960 for it back in 2007 and would not buy one again considering I can get a Colt 6920 at Wal-Mart for $100 more as we speak.
Bought a Sabre Defence M5 Tactical back in 2009. Quickly sold it when I found out it had a pinned muzzle brake and I realized how much it sucked lugging around a very muzzle-heavy 9lb rifle for more than two minutes.
Quickly upgraded to a Noveske 16.1 Recon and have been a convert ever since.
This is my first. Bought it back in the 90s after the California ban. Have used it hunting jackrabbits out in Mojave and, when we moved to Arizona, the Kaibab Forest near the Grand Canyon. When a frend of mine saw it, he said it must be the only stock AR in the country!
Sold it a few years ago to fund the build of a precision 20" rifle
If you count an M14 with a black stock as a black rifle, it may be my first. I got it and the above AR about the same time.
My second black rifle is the first black rifle, a FAL built by Century. I also bought an early Century CETME, built with the HK drum sight, at the same time. Both are gone and were bought when I really didn’t know what I don’t know. No photos of either one
My 1st one was a build from parts I aquired mostly from M&A at a local gun show.
The barrel was bought from Blackthorne. They were recommended to me by a member of my home range.
I later found out about the quality of these parts.
The 1st malfunction it had gave me the excuse to sell it and get a Daniel Defense upper.
A bottom dollar, cobble together at a gun show, ban era POS, 2001 or so :mad: My experience had been military and I thought ARs just worked. This one would FTE several times each magazine. I got it after my first post college job and I was stuck with it for a year or so until I could save up for another upper. Eventually replace every part with Bushmaster- and it works fine now. Don’t even mention the WalMart RDS My AR knowledge is hard earned.
Not my first black rifle per say but my first complete one. I had the same lower with a DDM4V5 upper but had to sell it to pay bills because of my divorce. I finally saved up soon after to buy a BCM BFH 16" midlength upper and here is the result. Just completed it the other day as my Troy rear sight was on back order for about 2-3 months. Still have a few other things to add down the road shortly but it is complete. :dirol:
This was after I first got it and well before I joined up on here and learned a few things, especially regarding light placement. The X400 is now on a pistol and has been replaced by a Surefire Scout light.
My AR knowledge is hard earned.
