Before I'd gotten into shooting, I'd only been out to the range once, when I was 12.
Then, when I was 19, I asked my dad if I could take his .303 and a Marlin Model 60 that no one really knew how we acquired out to the range. So that, IMO, is the first time I really went to shoot, and a 95 (now 97) year old Lee Enfield No.1 MkIII was the gun I learned to shoot on. A few months after that, my grandfather gave me a large portion of his collection, and I learned to shoot handguns with a 1911 and a Smith 586.