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bigtim6656 12-05-2009 02:34 PM

how old where you before you shot your first gun.
 
how old where you before you shot your first gun.
i shot a shotgun a few times when i was about 13 or 14. My uncle let me shoot his 9mm glock when i was about 14. Shot my dads 10/22 when i was about 9 or 10. After 14 i did not fire another round till i was almost 19. Then Ars pistols. Hopefully soon i can get me a 50bmg and put that one behind me :arms:

Big Z 12-05-2009 03:30 PM

Started with firearms at 12, 18 now. I was quick to scour sources of all types, learning anything and everything I could about hunting and shooting.

Champlain Islander 12-05-2009 03:47 PM

First time I shot was about 10. My first gun was a Stevens .410. All the friends got .22's but dad wouldn't let me get one. I got pretty good at killing squirrels, partridge and bunnies.

nchawkeye 12-05-2009 03:51 PM

I was 6, started squirrel hunting by myself by the time I was 9...

baileym62 12-05-2009 03:55 PM

5 with 22 7 dad bought me my own 410 went to 3030 at 10 12 gauge at 13 now at 25 own over 30 firearms still birdhunt with 410 its my favorite of all

aaalaska 12-05-2009 04:22 PM

I was 6 when I shot the 22, but wasn't allowed to hunt till I was 9.

DeerandbearhoG 12-05-2009 04:39 PM

18, fort dix, m16

bigtim6656 12-05-2009 05:30 PM

Lol I take that to mean you where in the military. If so thanks for your service godbless.

Originally Posted by DeerandbearhoG (Post 3520710)
18, fort dix, m16


Quad82 12-05-2009 07:16 PM

Don't remember the first gun I shot some 40+ years ago. I know my I got my first Red Ryder for my 5th birthday. I still love The Christmass Story! I got my Grandpas single 20 for my 8th birthday and have pictures of my first rabbit and squiral that year. Still have the 20 in the gun cabnet. But it's my son's now. He got it on his 8th birthday too.

Dan480Man 12-05-2009 07:34 PM

12 or 13.
We actually weren't allowed to have guns. No real place to hunt or shoot safely then. Still, I snuck outside with my dads .22 when he was at work one day.
That rifle seemed so loud compared to my bb gun!

salukipv1 12-05-2009 10:05 PM

shot a .410 when I was somewhere in the 7-9yo range I think...

I think once I hit 10 or 12 I really started shooting trap etc...though.

Warkie 12-06-2009 03:34 AM

I was 33. Late bloomer.

driftrider 12-06-2009 07:06 AM

6 years old with both pellet guns and dads 22. Bought my first gun at age 14 with money saved from a paper route and mowing lawns.

Mike

vabyrd 12-06-2009 07:48 AM

4 sitting in my dads lap shooting a 22

DannyD 12-07-2009 07:08 AM

I was 42 years old when i shot my first gun.
I grew up and lived most of my life on Long Island in NY. Moved to Tampa Fl for a few years. Never even had the thought of shooting a gun.
Moved to WV. Nuff said

skb2706 12-07-2009 07:09 AM

8 years old. Iver Johnson .410 single shot shotgun. Hunted when I was 9.

vabyrd 12-07-2009 07:11 AM


Originally Posted by DannyD (Post 3521984)
I was 42 years old when i shot my first gun.
I grew up and lived most of my life on Long Island in NY. Moved to Tampa Fl for a few years. Never even had the thought of shooting a gun.
Moved to WV. Nuff said

West Virginia is the only state where you need a firearm in order to get a drivers license. :D

DannyD 12-07-2009 07:21 AM


Originally Posted by vabyrd (Post 3521989)
West Virginia is the only state where you need a firearm in order to get a drivers license. :D


Yeah. iI was quite the sight when i showed up at a public range with the instuction manual for my 22lr rifle trying to figure out how to work the darn thing

vabyrd 12-07-2009 08:50 AM


Originally Posted by DannyD (Post 3521998)
Yeah. iI was quite the sight when i showed up at a public range with the instuction manual for my 22lr rifle trying to figure out how to work the darn thing

....and look at you now, 2,300+ posts and can't get enough of it!

GRIZZLYMAN 12-07-2009 09:06 AM

Five or six (been a long time ago) with a .22 rifle w/iron sights. Shot my first squirrel at the same time.

popeye2 12-07-2009 09:42 AM

around 6 or 7, don't remember exactly, but it was shooting an old single shot 22 where you had to pull the bolt back to **** it

pnut 12-07-2009 12:11 PM

BB Gun - 4-5yrs old
.22 - 6yrs old
410 and 12gauge 7yrs old
243 and 6mm 8yrs old.

Plan on doing about this same scale with my boy that is 3 right now but I'll probably start him on a 28gauge around 7yrs old.

220swift 12-08-2009 01:05 PM

8 i shot my first gun allowed to hunt when 10

BigBuck95 12-08-2009 01:53 PM

like 10 with the .22, then the 20 gauge at and then progressivly going up through rifles and shotguns. I use a 12 guage w/ pumpkin balls for deer now. HUNT ON
BigBuck95

13pointjomc 12-08-2009 02:35 PM

Started shootin a bb gun at 10,22 at 12,shotguns and high powered rifles,13,started huntin at 15(last year)Im 16 now.

Boxmaker 12-08-2009 05:03 PM

I was 8 I got a single shot 410 for Christmas.


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