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Ummmm - about 12 I suppose ... junior high school anyway - home made .22 pistol that I made myself and back then, a 12 year old could buy .22 ammo at the local Western Auto store (and does anybody here remember the Western Auto stores?).

Later, neighbor complained about me and Joey blazing away at tin cans at the local dingle so a cop showed up and took the gun & ammo away. I suppose today, there'd be arrests all around and it'd be a lead story on the 6 o'clock news.

"Local police today arrested two juveniles with a home-made assault pistol..."

Sigh...
 
I was 4 years old when my father let my fire a Ruger Mark II off the back porch. Too bad I let my left thumb drift over behind the action. Ouch.
 
I have had BB guns since I was about 9 or 10. But my first time shooting a real firearm was on some kind of 9mm pistol. Do not recall what make or model, though I am fairly certain it was a Glock.
First rifle experience was an SKS.
 
I was 10.

Shot a full auto M-16 using blanks in the basement :D

First time I shot live ammunition was 2 years later with the same cousin and uncle. First time I shot a pistol, shotgun and full auto (only time I ever did).
 
About 9 or 10. My grandfather let me shoot his WesternField .22 single shot bolt action. From then on I was saving my pennies to buy 50 cent boxes of 22 longs. Never got over my love of that SMELL of gunpowder.
 
I was about 11. The first one I fired was grampa's old .22 short. He had passed the year before and my Dad inherited it. It has a notch in the barrel where it used to rest on the tractor when Grampa lived on the farm as a kid. I consider it a priceless family heirloom.
 
Really young

My dad started me out on a .22 rifle (Ithica LA single shot), but by the time I was 12 I hunted regularly with my own K-22.

I honestly don't remember when I started shooting (I was probably weaned, but not much older).
 
I have a picture of my father, my uncle, and me shooting a BB rifle when I was 3. My first .22 was 4 and my first shotgun (dad's 12ga humpback) was when I was 5. First shotgun I was allowed to hunt with was a 12ga single shot hammer (I was 10) that had the barrel sawed off by my uncle for whatever reason. It didn't weigh much which was good because we used to walk all day and it didn't weigh much which was not so good when I got a shot.
 
12yrs old. Got a Winchester model 37 half hammer 20 guage shotgun for Xmas. Family tradition for the boys. Bought my own .22 at age 15 from a country store. It was a Remington Nylon 66. Hangs above the back door today. Sold the m37 to a friend who had all the guages except the 20.
 
I can't remember when I started shooting. I do remember Christmas when I was 9. I got a Remington 514 singleshot .22 rifle. It's still in my safe.
 
I was 8 or 9 and it was a .22 bolt action rifle, .22LR caliber, at summer camp. The camp was Taconic Lodge in NY, nice place. I won a few NRA marksmanship patches and certificates. Wish I had the jacket they were sewn onto. The rifles were remingtons and Winchesters. If I remember right (and this was pretty long ago) all were magazine fed, although at first we started firing one round at a time. Heck they actually first they started us on BB guns, then came the real grownup's guns - those .22s!
 
1968,7 years old, Mossberg model 152... my dad and my two brothers in the woods of southern Ohio on a perfect fall day.Good times... :)
 
I was four. The firearm was a Browning Light Twelve. My Dad held up the fore end for me and I held the buttstock to my shoulder and pulled the trigger. Darn thing knocked me head over heels and I wound up with a flinch that took years to overcome. Dad's hypothesis was that if I got the pure living hell knocked out of me then I wouldn't mess around with guns while unsupervised. He was right in that...as far as it went. The disadvantages were excessive, though.
 
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This is my first post.Looks like a great forum you have here.

I was born in 1961,shot my first tin can at the age of 7 in a gravel pit.My Dad started us out early,once He was confident we were safe He let us go on our own(9 or 10). My first rifle was a Stevens falling block(crackshot?) 22,shotgun was a 20 g. Ithaca featherweight. Fond Memories.

Dale
 
Too young to remember. One of my earliest memories was shutting my finger in the pump closure of that old Daisy pump BB gun (I got a picture somewhere, the gun was nearly as big as me). Had to set its butt on the ground, push the front grip down, and yank it back up to pump it, because I wasn't strong enough to do it on my shoulder. Well, after the grip went down, the finger got in the assembly, and when it went back up, I had some bloddy fingers.

Mom thought for sure I shot my eye out :D
 
I actually shot my first firearm about 2 years ago, so I'm kinda young to the game :eek: . I've always been a firearms enthusiast, though, even waaaay before I shot. I shot skeet with a 12 at a buddy's place, shortly before trying out my (then new) Spanish Mauser. The looks on everyone's face after seeing an 88 year old rifle blow the heck outta the backdrop was awesome :D .
 
It was at Boy Scout Camp. Single shot 22. I was hooked for life! That was 40 years ago and I can still remember the day like it was yesterday.
 
Age 7

My first shot was at age 7 in western NY with my dad's Remington 521T. I still have that delightful 22 and am teaching my son how to shoot on it.

Now the most famous event happened when I was 10. I had been badgering my dad for months to let me shoot his Colt 45ACP. Finally he relented. He put one round in the mag, and racked the slide, put the safety on and handed it to me.

I took the safety off and followed his instructions carefully. When I fired though, the gun recoiled up and back, clocking me center-forehead at the hairline. I carry that scar today! My mom came rushing out of the house at the sound of the pistol and saw her son prostrate bleeding from the forehead....

John
 
I was twelve and that shot won a huge turkey that my family ate for Thanksgiving. Can't help but wonder what all those grown men I was competing against felt like :D

Five years of using a BB gun on a daily basis taught me real good.
 
I was 7 or 8 we were shooting snapping turtles floating down the strea fro the Lobutcha (sp?) bridge in Leake County, MS. We were sheeting the Remington version of the .22 Auto with the bottom eject. Same rifle as the Browning .22 auto. I came back to Uncle James' house with a pocket full of empty brass and a burn on the inside of my left wrist and a smile that wouldn't quit. That was near 40 years ago.
 
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