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Started with a chipmunk 22 when I was five or so with my dad and reloading with him at 7 or 8. Continuing the tradition with my daughter. Got her a cricket 22 for her 5th birthday and a Model 7 compact in 243. She also likes helping reloading which we call Bullets by Brenna.
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55 years shooting, 50 years reloading.
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I was a latecomer. I did not start shooting until I was in my early 20', well out of college. I started hunting shortly after that. I waited until 15 years ago to start reloading, but I'd saved every piece of brass I'd shot.
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I'm 58, so that would put me with 53 years of trigger time, 44 years of reloading, starting with the tried and true Lee Loader, like most everybody else.
You only live once, but...if you do it right, once is enough.
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Only around 46 years....
And yep, reloading for around 36, started with the hammer and lee loader... made a couple miles since then...
We can keep Larry Root and all his idiotic blabber and user names on here, but we can't get Ralph back..... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over....
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And years don't mean squat either... I've known some that have shot for over 70 years and still dumb as any rock you could pick up....
We can keep Larry Root and all his idiotic blabber and user names on here, but we can't get Ralph back..... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over....
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BigStick says I never have. Rats. Sounds like fun.
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One of my earliest memories is shooting a Winchester single shot .22 with Mom & Dad; I was probably 5 or 6. Dad wasn't much of a gun guy, but I guess that he realized that I would be and made sure I understood safety and the other basics. That would have been about 56 years ago. I started reloading 44 years ago with a Lee Loader & a hammer.
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Some of it's tragic,
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Dad started me at 3 with a BB gun that looked like an M1 Carbine. You pushed the barrel into the stock to 'cock' the spring then worked the bolt to put a BB in. That thing finally disintegrated when I was in Jr. High.
First rifle that was 'mine' was a Savage 243. Followed by a Mohawk 600 in 243. I still have the Savage and my grandson is using the 600.
All in all, 54 years.
Support your local Friends of NRA - supporting Youth Shooting Sports for more than 20 years.
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Whatever you do, Pay it Forward. - Kids are the future of the hunting and shooting world.
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Guess I probably started about like most, around age 5 or so, since I don't really remember not shooting.
Most of my shooting was 22s and shotguns when I was young. Didn't own my first CF rifle til I was about 36, I'm 44 now. Up until about 5-6 yrs ago I probably had fired less than 100 rounds of CF ammo in my life, then I found this site and around the same time got hooked up with a neighbor who reloaded and deer hunted a lot. Since then I've amassed a safe full of rifles, bought a reloading setup off the classifieds here, and currently reload for about 20 different cartridges including a couple of wildcats.
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Started with a Daisy BB gun around age 6. Helped my dad reload starting around age 10 or so. Only reloading on my own for about 16 years.
I'm 45......
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I've owned my oldest rifle for 61 years, was shooting others a few years before that.
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Geez, I feel like a rookie with this crew. I've only been getting my gun off for about 40 years.
Wag more, bark less.
The freedoms we surrender today will be the freedoms our grandchildren will never know existed.
The men who wrote the Second Amendment didn't just finish a hunting trip, they just finished liberating a nation.
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I was 11 when I fell in love with shooting at a Boy Scout Camp; got my first .22 at 13 and am still shooting at 74.
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BB gun and 22 with dad's help about four. So 43 years.
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Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms should be a convenience store; not a government agency.
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7th birthday was - uummmm -56 years ago. (started late!)
Reloading since 1966 - wow 50 years, now!
I've always been a curmudgeon - now I'm an old curmudgeon.
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56 years. Seems like a lot longer sometimes. Several comments about starting out with a Daisy BB gun. I would love to be able to buy a Daisy now that would shoot as good as I remember my old Daisy lever action shooting…and it wasn't even a Red Rider.
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60 years, maybe a little more. I got my first .22 when I was 8 but had shot BB guns some before that. I always hunted, but when I started action shooting competition about 20 years ago I began shooting a lot more and then started reloading.
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BB gun when I was 5 or 6ish, a 22 when I was maybe 9 or 10 although for the first year or so it was only under dads supervision. I got a shotgun and rifle around 12 and started to reload.
I went in the service at 17 and within a year I was on the service rifle team and later spent 2 years as a scout/sniper with the M21. I had always hunted but the military formalized my shooting and taught me a bunch of principles behind what I had been doing for a long time.
I am 50 now, and I don't shoot competitively any more but I shoot quite regularly, Mostly rifles with a bit of pistol, at least once or twice a week when the snow isn't more than knee deep.
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