RE: age for starting to shoot
started shootin a BB gun at 4 or so. dad would load in a specific count of BBs..toss a can in the yard and count how many hits i got out of how many BBs were in the gun. funny how i remember that. then at 5 or so we would walk down in the woods with the 22. hed always find a can or something someone left behind and let me blast away at it. around the same time he let me shoot a 357 revolver with a 38 special in it..i remember i about dropped it..dad was behind me and made sure i didnt. he was always right there behind me guiding me and watchin. shot the 22 and bb gun till i was about 10. then i got into everything else from shotguns to pistols to legally owned sub machine guns and full machine guns...even a belt fed 1919. i was lucky to grow up and be best friends with a pretty large gun dealer in the areas son. my dad was also friends with the dad. so id go to their camp every weekend with them and burn up ammo from the time i was 10 on.