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Jim

I was five so 63 years.

I was five so 63 years.

I don't remember not shooting.

Obviously started with BB guns but on to 22 RF early on.
I'm 66 so..... I had my own .410 by age 8 or 9. Still have it.

Five or so with my Benjamin and I am now fifty four. I started handloading when I was sixteen thanks to a M29 I bought that I could not afford to feed. About the same time with shotshell handloading for the same reason...

This sounds like a depression story but...

Started with a break action pellet rifle without a rear sight. When couldn't afford BB's (it was a .177), would shoot maize out of it. Could usually afford a pack of BB's...

Got my first .22 when I was 8, still have it.
Bolt action .410 when I was 10, still have it.
Bought a French Berthier at a hardware store when I was 11, still have it.

63 now.

I think I started around 3, my dad and brother would pump up the benjamin, I'd rest it on the handrail of the deck and proceed to shoot dixie cups off the wood pile. Somewhere around the same age I was allowed to squeeze off a few from dad's remington #4 rolling block. That would be 40 years and change.

My dad started me with a .22 revolver shooting .22 shorts when I was 5. We shot all the time. That was back when you could drive outside the city limits and drive down a dirt road and throw some cans out and start shooting. He gave me a 20 gauge Mossberg 500 shotgun when I was 14. I'm 57 now, so 52 years.

Started with a Daisy BB gun at around 5. Got first .22, a Stevens Crackshot 26 at 6, still have it. Got a 20 gauge single-shot shotgun at 7. It's still in the family. Pappy (Grandfather) "sporterized" a .303 Brit No.4 Mk1 for me at around 8. Started reloading for it at 11. Killed my first deer with it at 16. Still have it. I'm 60, so that makes 55 years shooting.

43 years.

29 years of handloading my own ammo.

61 years, Daisy, 22LR, and than a mail order trapdoor Springfield from "Ye Olde Hunter". That was followed by a Krag, .30 U.S.

GTC

64 years behind the trigger. 60 years at the loading bench.

Started around five, going out plinking with my father, so about 58 years.

I'm 63,started at 5 or so. Got my first gun(can't call it a firearm),a .177 cal.,Benjamin Pump at 7 yrs old. I had to wait until I was 8 for a real firearm. I got a Stevens .22/410(my dad had won,just after WW 2. I killed my first deer with it. My grandson now has it! memtb


As an addition: I got my first handgun(a Browning Nomad) at about 10 or 11, and I bought my first centerfire rifle at 13( Winchester Model 88 in .308),started handloading at 15 with a $9.99(still have it) Lee Loader,as it was the only way I could afford to shoot it. I finally got my first centerfire handgun at 16(a S&W Model 28), my mother had to sign for it,thanks to the 68 Gun Control Act.

I can remember sitting between my father's knees and pulling the trigger of his Remington 521-T when I was around 2 or 3. I'm 67 now. Been reloading for 43 years.

When I was a kid, the County Fairs still used real 22's in the gallery shoots. I was around 5, so 57 years.

I would say 6 or 7 so in that case, 61-62 years.. Been fun.. I need to go shoot today..

Started shooting when I was 5 or 6 and I'll be 65 in June, coming up on 60 years I guess. Started reloading in my early 20s, so 40+ years of loading my own.

No idea when I started shooting my grandfathers 22 but I was reloading for my deer rifle when I was 13 and I am 66 so that would put it over 53 years.