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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: Chrissy on August 23, 2009, 09:54:37 PM
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Just wondered. =)
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14, maybe...
Marlin .22, scoped, 40 yards. first three shot benchrested group was about 3"...
thus it began...
TMM
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Ten or eleven.
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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.
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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.
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5 or 6 if you count BB guns.
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Don't remember, but I got my Marlin 60 When I was 14 and had a BB gun before that.
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Too young to remember - mebbe 4 or 5.
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Twenty-five.
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Nine for BB gun, eleven or twelve for .22.
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An actual firearm? 13, maybe.
BB gun - 8ish.
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21. My daughter fired her first at 4.
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14 or so, I think
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BB gun-5 or 6
Rimfire: 6
Centerfire: 7
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About 10 for a BB gun and I was 18 when I fired my first 22.
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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
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22, and it was a .22
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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.
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10 or 11, marlin 60, still have it, still shoots great.
Had a bb gun when I was around 6.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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! :cool:
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
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.22lr - about 12 I'd guess, at scout camp
.30-06 - 17 at philmot scount ranch
12ga - 18
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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. =D
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. :O ), 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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5'ish, my Dad's winchester model 270 .22 loaded with .22 shorts. Like others he had to hold the front up for me.
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When I lived in NC as a young kid, many of the neighborhood boys had BB and pellet rifles. When I moved to TN (8yo through 14yo), shotguns and 22lr rifles were common in my 'hood. Nobody blinked when we walked through the hood with guns to the woods on the edge of the subdivision to do a little plinking.
Chris
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Pellet gun - probably 8 or so.
Firearm - 25. Location, location, location...
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BB gun- around 7
.22 lr.- 11 or 12
I actually got my bb gun when I was 4 or 5. I had a hard time cocking it. I wasn't allowed to load it until I was older. Using it as a toy before a weapon was probably not a good idea.
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Probably around 6 or seven years old for my first BB gun. My grandpa had a Red Ryder that Dad would take me out in the backyard to shoot. Then I graduated to 22 rifles and a 22 H&R pistol that now resides in my room. I got a pellet rifle of my own on Christmas Eve when I was 8, and was allowed to shoot it unsupervised when I was 10.
Although we always had guns around the house and I was allowed to handle them with permission, we never shot much except for my Dad's 9mm pistol which he kept in practice with.
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5, it was a Stevens .22lr rifle.
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10 maybe, dad's old Sears & Roebuck .22 rifle.
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dad got me started when i was 8 with a ar-7 .22
i was shooting his handguns by the time the month was out. first pistol: HK USP .40 S&W
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I first fired my first gun was when I was 11. Rather than allow me to buy a BB gun, Dad brought home a Winchester Model 75 Target, various accessories, and memberships in the NRA and Davey Crockett Junior Rifle Club. The next morning I was on a formal firing line learning to shoot 50 foot indoor matches, all though of BB guns banished. And yes, whatever the law may have said, it was my rifle. It and all my gear and ammo stayed in my closet from day one.
My first time shooting was six months earlier with Dad, an uncle and some cousins at a dirt and gravel quarry.
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13
One of Dads co-workers had stopped by in the late evening and had a black powder pistol with him. Somebody got the "Let Mikey try it" type of bright idea and before I knew it I was standing in front of a target hanging from a tree limb, holding an awkwardly formed firearm. I pointed it "downrange" one handed like you saw in old movies while the co-worker cocked it. I took aim and pulled the trigger back, which in retrospect had to have positively intercontinental amounts of creep, and, almost without warning, ka-POW!!.
I managed to hold on to the dragon, just. After the smoke cleared, I was mildly pleased that I had at least blown the target down and it did have a couple of holes in it. OTOH I did decline any further shots, and retreated to my room to collect myself and let the ringing in my ears to subside.
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BB pistol: 18
.30-30: 18
Pistol: Honestly can't remember. =( After 18, though... I think it was a Beretta 96, but... ???
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First real pistol was a Smith & Wesson 622 at the local range here in Mesa. It was probably almost three years ago, making me about 25.
First rifle was a friend's AR-15, fired at the same range, about six months later.
The first actual firearm I purchased was a Glock 19C, which I still have.
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BB gun at 3. A .410 shotgun and a .22 rifle(which I still have) at age 5 on the same day.
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I don't remember. I had a cap gun revolver when I was probably 3. It used the paper roll caps and would pop stuff in your eye. I loved it. =) I also had a lever-action pop gun about the same time.
I'm sure I shot a .22 on a few occasions by the time I was 5, but I don't have any special memory of it. When I was a year or two older, I got a Winchester single shot .410.