Where and when did you learn to shoot

Bill · Post by **Bill** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 7:36 pm

for me it was squirrel hunting on the Mississippi river levee at seven, then Camp Rio vista in Ingram at eight where I took rifle, at 10 duck and goose at Eagle Lake, then I shot a puma at eleven in the old King ranch, and I stopped after that, never really wanting to shoot until i picked up a Norinco 45 20 years ago at age 30

My 55 year old sister is a different story, she bagged two elk in one season year before last

RPBrown · Post by **RPBrown** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 7:44 pm

.22 rifle at 6, 20 Ga. shot gun @ 8. Both single shots (still have both). Both of these @ parents place in Teague, Tx. Pistol was a Colt revolver @ 12 on the Pitchfork ranch.

Oh, the good ol days.

HighVelocity · Post by **HighVelocity** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 7:48 pm

Daisy (pre) Red Ryder type BB gun about 1973 when it was as tall as I was.

HEMIzygote · Post by **HEMIzygote** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 7:49 pm

Kimber 45 in Spring 2006. Been shooting ever since!

RPBrown · Post by **RPBrown** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 8:00 pm

HighVelocity wrote:Daisy (pre) Red Ryder type BB gun about 1973 when it was as tall as I was.

Now what do you shoot thats as tall as you are?

jbirds1210 · Post by **jbirds1210** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 8:13 pm

Rye, Texas in the late 70's with a Daisy BB gun (30-30 Winchester clone....Dad still has it). My Dad used to set up a "black eyed pea" can style plate rack on a saw horse

When I could knock them all down he would throw an empty milk jug in the air and have me shoot it twice before it hit the ground (lever action).

I became hooked shooting those cans and I have never slowed down. I can honestly say I have the same passion for things going bang as I did then! I just wish that my Dad was still paying for the ammuntion!

ElGato can verify that I have been shooting my entire life.....the fellows at the Texas City Shooting Range threatened to claim me on their taxes one year!

Jason

seamusTX · Post by **seamusTX** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 8:24 pm

Chicago, Illinois, 1965, age 10.

- Jim

jimlongley · Post by **jimlongley** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 8:34 pm

When I was just short of eight, at the town dump, informal plinking with my father at the behest of my grandfather, spring 1954.

frankie_the_yankee · Post by **frankie_the_yankee** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 8:35 pm

1989, Stony Brook Rod & Gun Club in Lincoln, RI. Shooting a Ruger Mk II 22LR pistol on a 50 ft. indoor range.

Houston1944 · Post by **Houston1944** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 9:19 pm

When I was 7 or 8 I got my first BB gun and started thinning out the birds in our area. Around age 10 I was squirrel hunting with my father and his 22 rifle (I still have it). I was 14 (1958) when my brother left for college and gave me his Ruger 44mag along with the reloading equipment, a Lyman nutcracker.

308nato · Post by **308nato** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 9:21 pm

DesPlaines Illinois Daisy RedRyder BB gun 1952 12'th birthday

srothstein · Post by **srothstein** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 9:25 pm

I learned when i was about 8 years old. My father took me out in the woods around Philadelphia and let me shoot his revolver. It was an old WW II S&W Military and Police model chambered in .38 S&W (not spl). It had all of the British Crown proof markings on it, along with the lanyard loop on the butt.

When my father died, there was only one thing I wanted from his estate. I got it and just passed it down to my oldest son this year.

It has been through two house fires and the ammo is getting scarce, so we will not shoot it anymore. We are making a shadow box for it, with a brass plaque, Marine Sgt's stripes, and (if I can find it) a six inch brass Eagle Globe and Anchor.

Mithras61 · Post by **Mithras61** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 9:34 pm

Mid-1960s I started shooting with my Dad. I don't recall the exact year, but I couldn't have been more than about 5 (but certainly not more than 6 'cause we moved to IN about 6 weeks after my 6th birthday), which would make it 1966. We drove out to the country in MI near Kalamazoo with a .22 single shot (he still has it & uses it to teach grandkids) and a .410 single-shot shotgun (Browning, I think). I remember that I was almost knocked over by the .410, and that it was a complete blast. Hadn't thought about that in (literally) years...

135boomer · Post by **135boomer** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 9:38 pm

I think I was about six. We shot at a gravel pit by the American river, outside of Sacramento. How things change. California was gun friendly back then and that gravel pit is now a shopping center.