Author Topic: What age were you when you fired your first gun? (Read 5631 times)

Chrissy · « **on:** August 23, 2009, 09:54:37 PM »

Just wondered.

TMM · « **Reply #1 on:** August 23, 2009, 09:56:44 PM »

14, maybe...

Marlin .22, scoped, 40 yards. first three shot benchrested group was about 3"...

thus it began...

TMM

Standing Wolf · « **Reply #2 on:** August 23, 2009, 09:56:50 PM »

Ten or eleven.

RocketMan · « **Reply #3 on:** August 23, 2009, 09:59:15 PM »

About five.

Edited to add: It was my Dad's Stevens 87A .22. He actually had to hold the front of the rifle for me as I couldn't quite support it myself. It was okay resting on a log, as I remember (faintly).
We shot it at his Aunt and Uncle's farm in Sweet Home, Oregon.
We used some old, empty medicine bottles, among other things, as targets. Worthless then, probably worth a fortune now.

Another ETA: It just hit me, what a priceless memory that is. It is such a shame that it is fading as time passes.

Boomhauer · « **Reply #4 on:** August 23, 2009, 10:01:47 PM »

4 or 5, I think.

I pretty much started off really shooting with a BB gun, then moved up to .22s later in life. I was very, very glad to eventually move up to a .22, because my BB gun was slow to shoot (you had to pump it up, then run the bolt to load the BB.). It did teach me the value of making that shot count, though.

Regolith · « **Reply #5 on:** August 23, 2009, 10:05:07 PM »

5 or 6 if you count BB guns.

RaspberrySurprise · « **Reply #6 on:** August 23, 2009, 10:06:06 PM »

Don't remember, but I got my Marlin 60 When I was 14 and had a BB gun before that.

Tuco · « **Reply #7 on:** August 23, 2009, 10:28:09 PM »

Too young to remember - mebbe 4 or 5.

BridgeRunner · « **Reply #8 on:** August 23, 2009, 10:37:25 PM »

Twenty-five.

Monkeyleg · « **Reply #9 on:** August 23, 2009, 10:39:28 PM »

Nine for BB gun, eleven or twelve for .22.

Nick1911 · « **Reply #10 on:** August 23, 2009, 10:48:36 PM »

An actual firearm? 13, maybe.

BB gun - 8ish.

Fjolnirsson · « **Reply #11 on:** August 23, 2009, 10:53:16 PM »

21. My daughter fired her first at 4.

Headless Thompson Gunner · « **Reply #12 on:** August 23, 2009, 11:10:43 PM »

14 or so, I think

charby · « **Reply #13 on:** August 23, 2009, 11:11:13 PM »

BB gun-5 or 6

Rimfire: 6

Centerfire: 7

Gowen · « **Reply #14 on:** August 23, 2009, 11:18:06 PM »

About 10 for a BB gun and I was 18 when I fired my first 22.

mtnbkr · « **Reply #15 on:** August 23, 2009, 11:23:59 PM »

BB Gun: 7 or 8
Shotgun: 12ish (Scouts)
22lr: 12ish (Scouts)
Handgun (centerfire and rimfire): 20
Centerfire rifle: 27

I didn't own my first firearm until I was 26

Chris

taurusowner · « **Reply #16 on:** August 23, 2009, 11:25:20 PM »

22, and it was a .22

Paragon · « **Reply #17 on:** August 24, 2009, 12:13:42 AM »

I think I fired my first BB gun around 8 or 9. It was so cool then, it actually was a pump action that both pumped the gun and loaded the shot. My dad owned a garbage company, and it was on their property, and I remember the world of hurt I was in when a ricochet took out the window of the Cadallic at the business next door. My dad put the barrel in a vise and twisted it far beyond repair.

First firearm was a 20 gauge break-barrel, and I was about 12. We shot at bottles floating in a pond near my grandparent's hunting cabin.

For my first pistol, it was a 9mm Beretta in the Marine Corps, when I was 19 or 20.

jackdanson · « **Reply #18 on:** August 24, 2009, 01:01:29 AM »

10 or 11, marlin 60, still have it, still shoots great.

Had a bb gun when I was around 6.

Viking · « **Reply #19 on:** August 24, 2009, 01:10:22 AM »

6: Old air pistol
7: Air rifle at the club
11: Single-shot .22
16: 12 gauge shotgun and 5-shot bolt action .22

That's all.

Unisaw · « **Reply #20 on:** August 24, 2009, 01:22:51 AM »

11 yrs. old; single-shot .22 rifle with open sights; target was a tin can sitting on a fence post on my Grandfather's Iowa farm.

Nitrogen · « **Reply #21 on:** August 24, 2009, 01:57:53 AM »

24.

Freaked out after I saw a coworkers gun in his glove compartment. He was patient, and took me ot shooting later on, and I became hooked.

vaskidmark · « **Reply #22 on:** August 24, 2009, 02:55:05 AM »

I was 6 1/2. It was a genuine double-barrelled 4-bore, up on sticks. Belonged to my uncle who lived in South Africa. First shot sent me backwards about (mumble-grumble) feet, landing in a heap. Gunbearers caught the rifle. Second shot I remained standing.

I shot a bunch of other stuff but do not recall what it was. One never forgets meeting a 4-bore!

Next time shooting was probably age 16 - high school rifle club shooting .22s at the National Guard Armory. The only reason for the long delay was my family was constantly travelling and we were never in any place long enough to even look into shooting. Have a feeling the parents would not have been receptive/supportive even if we were not on the road.

stay safe.

skidmark

cfabe · « **Reply #23 on:** August 24, 2009, 09:55:16 AM »

.22lr - about 12 I'd guess, at scout camp
.30-06 - 17 at philmot scount ranch
12ga - 18

HankB · « **Reply #24 on:** August 24, 2009, 10:03:04 AM »

BB gun at 4. Was so little I had to tuck the stock under my armpit (else I couldn't reach the trigger) and I still outshot my much older cousin.

Dad bought me one a week or two later.

Got a .22 rifle at 7, CO2 pistol at about 9 or 10 (shot it a lot in the backyard . . . in Chicago.

), a .22 revolver as an early 8th grade graduation gift, which was followed very shortly afterwards by a Colt National Match .45 . . . that's about the time I started reloading and shooting a lot.

Today's bedwetting liberals would have a fit at the "ARSENAL" I kept in my room during my youth . . . and yet, strangely enough, access to firearms never made me go on some crazy killing spree, even when things weren't going my way.

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Author Topic: What age were you when you fired your first gun? (Read 5631 times)

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