How old on your first time? - Page 3

Delta Force · May 30th, 2006, 07:08 PM

I really can't remember the first time but at the age of 9 or ten I use to tye my 22 to the handle bars of my bike and ride up to my hunting grounds about 2 miles from my home.You sure don't see that anymore these days.

Stetson · May 30th, 2006, 07:11 PM

I was 7 years oil started shooting a mossberg model 36.I still have it.
I have shot it so much it's one of those guns you just point.

Randal16-1 · May 30th, 2006, 08:15 PM

Started at 6 years old with my Pop. Used his Ruger .22 pistol at first. by the time I was 10yrs old was shooting my Pops 30.06. I'm 43 now and my Pop shoots my guns.

Brian

gddyup · May 31st, 2006, 12:05 AM

Hmmmm... I believe I was about 12 years old. My uncle took me shooting at Danvers Fish & Game club and that's where I fired my first .22. A Marlin lever action .22 and a Ruger Mini-14 in .223.

Bud White · May 31st, 2006, 02:24 PM

7-8 or so

kansas45 · May 31st, 2006, 09:46 PM

Mom hate's guns. Her sister shot her in the arm when they were small. Dad don't care one way or the other. My Grand dad put me at the end of the driveway with a 22 singleshot Remington, several boxes of short's & a 4'X 8' piece of 1/2" steel in the back of his one car garage & let me shoot to my heart's content. Of course he gave me some training & safety rule's to follow. I think I was 8 yrs old. He lived in town & it was o.k. back then. (very early 60's). Grandparent's died. I got divorced. Bought their house & one day last summer had to explane to a local officer just why I was carrying a pellet rifle across my yard. I told him where I learned to shoot. He rolled his eye's, shook his head, got back in his car & just drove off. I told him thank you(silly kid). I watch myself closely now, & try not to break any gun law's.(bb or otherwise).

goawayfarm · May 31st, 2006, 11:05 PM

my dad had just come back from a tour in Vietnam (he was a Marine). He took me to a quarry near his parents home & taught me to shoot. We started with a bolt action .22. I fell in love with shooting right then & there.

He almost ruined it for me when he let me shoot my grandfather's 12 guage single barrel Winchester. It didn't knock me down, but it sure put a big bruise on me.

As I sit here typing this, that shotgun is today hanging over my mantle.

-Copperknight, thanks for the reminding me of the memories....

Cura ut valeas

Rocnerd · June 1st, 2006, 09:31 AM

I was 12 or 13 and learned on a single shot bolt action .22 lr in Boy Scouts. Right after that I got a Red Ryder BB gun that was my cousins. It took me until after college to shoot my first handgun and soon after I bought my first handgun.

AnimalKracker · June 1st, 2006, 04:21 PM

Around 4 or so. My Dad would prop his Rem.22 auto up on a log or hold it and me as I shot. Almost 47 years later I still have that rifle, and all those memories of him.

Dakotaranger · June 2nd, 2006, 06:58 AM

About twelve when I was working for a guy in our church He let me shoot his .22 rifle. And then there was this girl I grew up with we used to shoot with her bb gun until I talked my folks into getting me one

May 30th, 2006, 07:08 PM	#21
Delta Force Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: NH Posts: 460	First time I really can't remember the first time but at the age of 9 or ten I use to tye my 22 to the handle bars of my bike and ride up to my hunting grounds about 2 miles from my home.You sure don't see that anymore these days. __________________ Have Fun and Shoot Straight!

May 31st, 2006, 12:05 AM	#24
gddyup Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Derry, NH Posts: 902	Hmmmm... I believe I was about 12 years old. My uncle took me shooting at Danvers Fish & Game club and that's where I fired my first .22. A Marlin lever action .22 and a Ruger Mini-14 in .223. __________________ Firefighter/EMT My own piece of the web... The Right of Defense It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward. - Dolores Ibarruri

May 31st, 2006, 09:46 PM	#26
kansas45 Member Join Date: May 2006 Location: kansas Posts: 50	1st time Mom hate's guns. Her sister shot her in the arm when they were small. Dad don't care one way or the other. My Grand dad put me at the end of the driveway with a 22 singleshot Remington, several boxes of short's & a 4'X 8' piece of 1/2" steel in the back of his one car garage & let me shoot to my heart's content. Of course he gave me some training & safety rule's to follow. I think I was 8 yrs old. He lived in town & it was o.k. back then. (very early 60's). Grandparent's died. I got divorced. Bought their house & one day last summer had to explane to a local officer just why I was carrying a pellet rifle across my yard. I told him where I learned to shoot. He rolled his eye's, shook his head, got back in his car & just drove off. I told him thank you(silly kid). I watch myself closely now, & try not to break any gun law's.(bb or otherwise). __________________ I HAVE TWO GUNS. ONE FOR EACH OF YOU!

May 31st, 2006, 11:05 PM	#27
goawayfarm VIP Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Fork Union, Virginia Posts: 2,028	I was six....... my dad had just come back from a tour in Vietnam (he was a Marine). He took me to a quarry near his parents home & taught me to shoot. We started with a bolt action .22. I fell in love with shooting right then & there. He almost ruined it for me when he let me shoot my grandfather's 12 guage single barrel Winchester. It didn't knock me down, but it sure put a big bruise on me. As I sit here typing this, that shotgun is today hanging over my mantle. -Copperknight, thanks for the reminding me of the memories.... Cura ut valeas

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May 30th, 2006, 07:11 PM	#22
Stetson Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Augusta,Maine Posts: 928	I was 7 years oil started shooting a mossberg model 36.I still have it. I have shot it so much it's one of those guns you just point.

May 30th, 2006, 08:15 PM	#23
Randal16-1 Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: American Canyon, Ca Posts: 168	Started at 6 years old with my Pop. Used his Ruger .22 pistol at first. by the time I was 10yrs old was shooting my Pops 30.06. I'm 43 now and my Pop shoots my guns. Brian

May 31st, 2006, 02:24 PM	#25
Bud White VIP Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Elsewhere Posts: 17,476	7-8 or so

June 1st, 2006, 09:31 AM	#28
Rocnerd Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: S. Florida Posts: 210	I was 12 or 13 and learned on a single shot bolt action .22 lr in Boy Scouts. Right after that I got a Red Ryder BB gun that was my cousins. It took me until after college to shoot my first handgun and soon after I bought my first handgun.

June 1st, 2006, 04:21 PM	#29
AnimalKracker Distinguished Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Eastern Arkansas Posts: 1,382	Around 4 or so. My Dad would prop his Rem.22 auto up on a log or hold it and me as I shot. Almost 47 years later I still have that rifle, and all those memories of him.

June 2nd, 2006, 06:58 AM	#30
Dakotaranger Distinguished Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: North Dakota Posts: 1,835	About twelve when I was working for a guy in our church He let me shoot his .22 rifle. And then there was this girl I grew up with we used to shoot with her bb gun until I talked my folks into getting me one