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Songbirds with my Daisy if you can call “shooting and killing” “hunting”?

Second was squirrels & rabbits.

Yep...me too! Then I moved up to groundhogs with a .22.

Any critter that happened to be within a 3 mile radius of my house and could fall to the power of 10 pumps on a Crossman 766.

Squirrels, and hunted rabbits with a “one eyed” with my Dad, uncles, and grandfather…..about 65 years ago! Tailing along with them at around 5, carrying my own gun at around 7!
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Doves and squirrels

Squirrels.

2nd grade, I guarded the cherry tree with my Red Ryder.
Moved up to anything the Red Ryder Could do, fur or feather, then on to a Crossman 766 for the same. Brought them home by the handful for the dogs to eat.
At legal age I was able to hunt small game then deer with real guns, but the varmints and rodents, fur or feather, have remained a hobby to this day (today).

Shooting carp in the creek down on the corner of the farm at 4 years old with my dad and his 22 rifle which I have today.

Squirrels, started with a .410 not long after moved up to a 12 ga.

Am I the only one who learned to shoot sitting by a pond popping turtles with a .22 ?

Rabbits with a 20 gauge 870

Doves when I was a 10 year old, with Dad. Good memories.

We also shot a lot of ground squirrels with the .22 Marlin on a friend's ranch.

Then Dad introduced me to pheasant hunting later that season, when I was just ten years old. More than 50 years later, it's still my favorite hunt.

Good memories indeed. Thanks for asking the question.

Guy

No. Me and dad used to sit on the dock at the pond with a Marlin 60 and a brick of Federal Lightning shooting heads when they’d pop up.

Of course I’m in SWOK too so it might be a regional thing.

Frogs,toads,water bugs, turtles,chipmunks,squirrels,rabbits etc etc
Nothing was safe when we made a round with a pocket full off BBs

A friend of mine had a pond on his farm that was full of frogs, like hundreds of them.

You'd only see their eyes above the water, but we had a blast plinking them with his bb gun. Wouldn't kill them , just stun them, and we must have done that every Saturday afternoon for 3 weeks one summer

I hadn't thought about that in forever. I'm sure that made us better shots , at least with iron sights, just running thru those tubes of BBs

Baptist preachers daughters. Ooooooweeeeeeee, Mississippi was full of them when I was living their.

The neighbors cat with the good ole red rider for me.

Squirrels

Squirrels and doves as a kid.

Birds with a BB gun.