First shot - How old were you and what was it

Boy Scout Camp, Summer of 1963, a single shot 22.

1970 - 5 yrs old. Shot my father's .410 single shot Winchester. Wish I knew where that gun was now...

My older cousin had one of those Sears rifles, he was the envy of all his younger cousins because he was allowed to go hunting with it unsupervised.

My friend father 410 ,but I don't remember the name brand of the shotgun.I had forgotten it and always said I was in boot camp when I first fired a weapon.I think we were 13 or 14 years old at the time we fired the 410.

.22 out of a bolt action, probably was his Remington scoremaster. While hiking with my Dzia-Dzia for squirrels. Cant remember if i shot beforehand or not, but i remember convincing him I saw a Squirrel up in a big tree. He didnt see it, and i rememer him asking me in his Polish accent..."Arrree you suure??" I said yes, and he let me take aim up in the tree and fire. I dont think i hit anything that time. I Remember the "crack" of that shot and the echo, i can still hear it today. That was over 30 years ago. Its funny that i remember the sound of it more than any other detail. I was probably 4 or 5 at the time. He had to help me stabilize the gun to take aim because i was too small to hold it on my own. As years passed my father and I learned a lot about firearm and hunting safety. Dzia-Dzai, umm, not so much. Rest in Peace Dzai-Dzai.

I'm too old to remember the age of my first shot but it was from a Daisy BB gun and my first shot from a powder gun was from a .22lr bolt gun of some sort about 60 or so years ago.

I was six and the rifle was .22 bolt action Marlin. Not sure exactly on the model. My Grandfather raised my brothers and I, and he owned a garage door company in town. My Grandfather and my Uncle made my brothers and I an indoor rifle range. A 50ft. indoor range with a metal trap fastened to the wall and he used an electric motor to send and retrieve the targets. Our weekly allowance each was 2 boxes of Remington ammo (50ct). I would always blow through my weekly ammo within a day and spend the rest of the week, begging Grandpa for more ammo. (He almost always gave in) We added a Mohawk Brown Nylon 66 to shoot along with the bolt action. The worse thing that happened on occasion was to accidentally shoot the clip holding the target. If it got destroyed, we were scolded over the replacement cost and typically had a penalty day, before the clip was replaced with a new one.

8 years old H&R .22 revolver don't remember which one.

I was about 5 my dad let me shoot his Postal Meter .30 carbine. That's been about 52 years ago. Still have the rifle.

I was 6. It was a lever action Daisy BB-gun.
First actual firearm was my dad's Winchester M62. I was probably 7 or 8, IIRC.

I was about 8 & my brother took me to an empty lot about a block from our house to shoot his single shot .22 at some cans he dug out of the trash.

300 sav model 99 - 4years old. scope hit in the forehead. Dad just handed it down to me. maybe i will hand it down when I cant hunt anymore like Dad did

My dad's Springfield 1911 I was six.

bikerdoc said:

I was 8 and gramps let me fire his 32 snub nose. I was hooked!
Thanks gramps.

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It was an AR7 Explorer that went full auto on me. I had been raised to believe that guns were for bad people and sure enough, there I stood a newly-minted misdemeanant.

.44 magnum revolver with s scope. I was 14, been hooked ever since.

Remington nylon 66 in 22lr. About 6 years old

About 8 years old firing .22 shorts through a pump action Remington at the Morris County Fair in NJ in the 60s.

6 year old, 22LR on my grandads 1940's era slazenger single shot. Also 1 shot with a 30-30 and 12 ga that year too.

8, Marlin .22

I was around ten and it was either the 1911 my Uncle brought back from WW2 or a Savage model-62A we used to shoot dump rats. Fun times!

Early 1950s when I was 7 or 8. Dad’s Savage/Stevens .410/.22 O/U with a plastic stock like this one. I didn’t like the .410 recoil.

Not counting my uncle's old BB gun?
8, I think. My dad's .22 Luger.
As an engineering student, I still find those things fascinating but (typically German) ludicrously overcomplicated.

8 years old with a pellet pistol.

Actual firearm, not until I was like 25 maybe. Maybe 26. It was my friend's 44 magnum SRH.

Think it was 1967, 11 years old if so. My brother-in-law took me shooting. First shot was with a Mossberg 352, and I've wanted one ever since. But, I settled for a 151M a few years ago, and am not disappointed.

I was 16, and was taken trap shooting by a couple of friends. Don't recall the specific shotgun but it was a pump action 12 gauge. Not exactly the kindest introduction to firearms I guess. I really didn't get into them like I am now until I was 25. My family never had firearms growing up and any exposure I had was through friends who hunted or shot clays. My parents weren't anti-gun, just didn't own any.