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    New Ithaca

    I started hunting with a 20ga. deer slayer back years ago and I currently hunt with a 12ga deerslayer. Being a left hand shooter with two right hand shooting sons love the bottom eject. Both were great guns and I need to be the first one to the gun case the morning of the hunt or one of my...
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    15 year old traditionalist.

    I have a 12 year old son who is the same way. He asked me the other day where he could buy a new 30/30 savage like mine. I have to break the news to him that they stopped making the Savage 340 about 20 years (or more) ago. We are now looking for one a gun shows for him while I use his 243 for...
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    Age of people on THR

    41, 5 hand guns and 10+ rifles/shotguns Had Pat Benatar on 8-track, still have a working 8-track / record player in my workshop
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    Crosseye dominant...oh NO!

    I had the same problem. I am now a left hand shooter. It took awhile to get use to shooting left handed but I found myself taking a much better shot left-handed because I had to concentrate more on the markmanship fundementals because it didn't feel natural.
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    My son's first trigger pull

    I love the Rossi's for first guns. My oldest started with a .22/20 ga. and my youngest just got the one with the .22/20/243. We spent Christmas afternoon in the north 40 sending lead down range as a family.
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    Do you still have your first firearm?

    First Rifle Marlin Model 25 .22 bolt action. Just handed it down to my son. First Shot gun Ithaca Deer slayer 12 ga. and yes and still hunt with it. First handgun was an old Colt .45 revolver and no sold it years ago.
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    What is the last gun that you bought?

    A remington Model 770 .270 for my 13 year-old for Christmas
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    New Member? Introduce yourself here (just intros, questions get answered elsewhere)

    HI, I'm Andrew, a new member from Kansas. Retired from the service with in in the Marine Corps and the Army. Just starting to get back into gun with two younger boys who are of hunting age. Still hunt with my father's old Savage model 340 30-30. I also have started getting the wife into...
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