Did you start with a .22LR?

[Hardtarget]

A BB gun...but the real thing was a .22. There were several,but the likely suspect would be a Savage .22/410 ,mod 24. Hunted and plinked with it as a kid and still have it.

Mark.

 

[jkingrph]

Dad started me when I was about 3 years old. He would hold me in his lap and let me pull the trigger on a Colt Woodsman he had. In I think 1952 when I was 7 years old he bought me a Marlin 39a, which I still have. I often wish he had kept the Woodsman, but it always had feeding problems so he traded it for a S&W K-22. He did like quality, although he could not afford much he instilled that trait in me.

 

[Mad Magyar]

Yeah, I remember my Red Ryder BB gun as well, recall a crying moment because I was injuring helpless pigeons. No, let's not count BB guns or airguns...

 

[qwert65]

some single shot bolt .22 rifle

 

[XD-40 Shooter]

Yep, when I was 8 years old, I got to shoot my dad's Remington Nylon 66, still have the rifle. I actually had my own single shot Ithaca 22 rifle at that age, I still have that one too.

 

[kansas45]

Started around 7 with a Remington 22 bolt gun. My Grandpa said it was the best baby sitter he ever had. He would give me a brick of 22 shorts & I would be entertained for hours!

 

[Andy-Y]

Nope, .22 was my second. My shooting experience started at 14 with an H&R single shot 12 gauge. My second (about a year later) was a ruger 10-22.

Ahh... Those were the days

 

[rbg9000]

Yep.. My dad would take me plinking in the woods with an old .22 rifle. I don't even know what make/mode it was. I never did get that darn squirrel, but we sure had fun.

 

[rugbyer81]

Technically yes. I had shot .22 a little as a very young kid but my first gun was a shotgun, and that shotgun was the gun I really learned about firearms with.

 

[f4t9r]

It all started with a BB gun then a high powered pellet gun.
Then a Marlin model 60, then a Shotgun, then a .............

 

[Rossshady120]

first gun i ever fired or my dad fired was a .25 acp beretta jetfire, now thats how you get a feel for firearms, no muffs might i add

 

[22-rimfire]

I wonder how many started with a 22 rifle and then quit shooting all together? I guess they would not be on this board however.

I want to start a couple kids on 22's, but fear their Mom will not like it. I'll even buy a rifle for them. But we start with mine.

 

[wep45]

the first was my cousins .357 magnum. next was a M1

 

[HB]

BB gun, then 12 gauge, then .22, then 30-30, then more and more and more

HB

 

[PTK]

Nope, started off with 30-06 out of a 1917 rifle.

 

[Kman]

First gun was BB, would go hunting with Dad, when he saw I could handle that I graduated to a .22 bolt action. Guess Dad didn't care to get shot with anything too powerful too soon. Next came a .410 bolt action, used it for my hunters safety course, I was 13, then I got to use the 16 pump and a model 94. I loved the 94! wish I still had it, traded it in on a ruger mini 30, think I was 17. That was over 20 years ago and now I have more darn guns than I'll ever need.

 

[Kind of Blued]

The only thing I ever owned when I was a kid was a BB gun. I shot whatever out family friend had on hand when we went to see them.

The first firearm that I owned, was a Browning Buckmark Hunter .22LR pistol that I bought right around my 22nd birthday.

I wouldn't change a thing except I wish I still had it. It flew off of the roof of my friend's car who was kind enough to go get it from my house for me while I was at work. No plinking that day...

 

[hoosier8]

I remember the first time I fired a rifle. My cousin got a 22 rifle for his birthday. I went outside with him and we took turns shooting it. This was in Texas at my Grandparents house out in the country. They had two old Pecan trees in the front yard. The trees were inhabited by crows.

Crows are smart.

My cousin got the first volley since it was his gun. He shot at the crows and missed. My turn next, I aimed and fired, and hit one.

Next came his turn, and he missed, my turn next, and a hit.

The crows took off and were never seen again in my Grandparents trees.

My cousin would not allow me to shoot his rifle after that.

 

[jakk280rem]

first gun i ever fired was a FEG PA-63 in 9x18 makarov.

 

[RaisedByWolves]

Yep, .22lr.....The Gateway gun.



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[Sir Aardvark]

I started when I was 7 with a .410 gauge

 

[cbrgator]

Savage Mk II. Still have it.

 

[sharkhunter2018]

IIRC, my first was my dads Marlin 60. Not sure about the make though. That was the first and only time, until eight years later. Fast forward eight years, and I start shooting with a high school buddy after school and on weekends. That lasted about a year and a half. After that was a single shot 12 ga and then a Yugo Mauser.

 

[reddogIII]

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However, I remembered that my first experience with shooting actually was with a .22. It was at a Boy Scout shooting range. I rather suspect that the Boy Scouts don't do shooting anymore... I'd be relieved to hear I was wrong.

I just spent this past Friday night and all day Saturday as an NRA RSO for a Troop of 8 Boy Scouts working on their rifle, shotgun, and black powder merit badges. These 8 boys went through nearly 1000 rounds of .22 shells in single-shot rifles! 200 rounds .20 ga. shotgun ammo, and an whole box of .45 cal ball. Everyone had a great time. Four adult scouters/chaperones accompanied the boys, and the boys camped out, in tents, at our range: temperature - 2* above zero! Hope you feel better now, Foxtrot

 

[reddogIII]

Boy scouts shooting

However, I remembered that my first experience with shooting actually was with a .22. It was at a Boy Scout shooting range. I rather suspect that the Boy Scouts don't do shooting anymore... I'd be relieved to hear I was wrong.

Just spent Friday night and all day Saturday as an NRA RSO with a Troop of 8 Boy Scouts working on their shotgun, rifle, and black powder merit badges. The boys went through 800 rounds of .22 ammo, 200 rounds of .20 ga., and a whole box of .45 cal ball. A good time was had by all. Boys camped out at the range in tents! in 2* weather. Hope this makes you feel better, Foxtrot!