I don't know when I got a BB gun, but I guess it was six or eight. My dad didn't hunt or shoot, but my mother came from a family of hunters so it was no big deal. I just didn't have much interest in it. About 12-13-14 or so I got interested enough to ask for a shotgun for Christmas and got it. I'm sure I had shot a gun before then, but it was like riding a bike. Most all kids did some shooting.
I remember a couple of .410's I shot, and my buddy and I used to sneak his dad's 22 S/A revolver (It may have been a Ruger, but I don't know for sure) out and shoot it once in a while. We had to figure out how to work it, but we managed. It won't like them guns the cowboys on TV used. It ran out of bullets.