Everybody I know started with a BB/pellet gun with iron sights. For almost everyone it was a Daisy Buck or the like. And then an 880 or 760.
We were picking off what we called locusts (cicadas) out of trees at a pretty young age. They’re here every year. When they were out of season it was the tiny plastic green army men.
We shot these guns a lot. Mostly unsupervised. Lots of trigger time. This is how we learned to shoot. Far before we were cut loose with 22’s. Iron sights were never an obstacle.
