How old were you?

[bottom shelf]

I was 10. It was at summer camp. Got my own first gun at 18.

 

[f4t9r]

I am thinking 8 or 9

 

[Byron Quick]

I was four when I shot my dad's Browning Light Twelve. He held the fore end. I wasn't much interested for a while after that.

Got an old J.C. Higgins bolt action 12 gauge when I was eight. An 8mm Mauser when I was 11. Uncle bought me a Llama 1911 in .38 Super when I was 17...way before anyone had heard the term 'straw purchase.'

 

[matrem]

About kindergarten era? Give or take a year.
Dad had a single shot receiver that had,both .22 rimfire & .32 rimfire barrels.He encouraged me to "start" with the .22,and after shooting at the Hi-C can(don't recall hitting it),I was too intimidated by the "big shell" to try it.

 

[Caliban]

27

it's not my fault, i was raised by antis...

 

[Babarsac]

Same here Caliban, I fired my first gun out in the Mojave Desert in 2006, and now I'll probably be buying myself a .22 handgun for my 27th birthday next month.....or even earlier

 

[hadmanysons]

About seven years old myself. I'm not even that great of a shot and my dad is a Navy SEAL. Not his fault though

 

[RP88]

18, about ten minutes after purchasing my first gun. I had always been like "I like guns. they're cool and seem interesting. Plus, it beats using a knife for self-defense."

So one day I just got it in me and bought one (a Mossberg 500 8-shot). Been into it ever since.

 

[mcwjr13]

My dad started me really early bb guns at three, .22 at four, and shot my first doe at seven.

 

[chriske]

If airguns count, 6 or 7
First firearm I ever shot : 14, my uncle's (mom & dad were anti).22 LR semi-auto rifle.
A Winchester, if I remember correctly.


By the way, BCCL (#23) : heartwarming story.

 

[carsten1911]

19

I was 19 (draftee for the West-German Forces).
UZI, G3, P38/ Pi1, Panzerfaust, 20mm tank gun, MG3.

As private person I started at 25 or 26, with a SW686 with .38 WC ammo.

Carsten

 

[triggerman7.62]

Probably 12, Addicted ever since but was 25 before i bought my first real gun.

 

[jpatterson]

9 or 10? At the Ft. Leavenworth skeet range with my dad and his 11-87.

 

[BlackHand1917]

I first shot with my .22 rifle at the age of eighteen. At the time, I wanted to be an army officer and thought that proficiency in firearms would be a smart move. I wasn't born into "gun culture." My father was born in an urban environment and thus had little familiarity with guns, apart from a very brief experience with a rifle in Navy boot camp.

 

[wep45]

in my teens............m-1 and a .357 magnum

 

[jcwit]

Man I have no idea, and all those that do know are now dead. Definitely way pre teen.

 

[DeathByCactus]

erm, 13-15. Somewhere along those lines I think.

 

[Eschaton]

First time shooting probably 10 or 11 a .22 LR.

Got my first gun, a smith and wesson .22LR revolver at 13 for my birthday.

the first gun I bought was a bushmaster o.r.c. .223 on my 18th birthday

 

[mrtom762]

I would say around four or five. When we went up to Maine to visit my grandparents, my grandpa has a single shot .22 rifle, cant remeber the model of it though.

 

[Wolfebyte]

4 or 5 when I first shot an old single shot .22

Only allowed to shoot it with my dad or my uncle around.. Then I got a bb gun (not a red ryder) then pellet rifle, then a pellet pistol.. I was 10 when I got my first rifle of my own. Then at 13, first shotgun (Mossberg 20 gauge) ..

simpler times..

 

[Neal]

In Boy Scouts, age 12.

 

[Gunship69]

I was about 8. Didn't really "get into" shooting hardcore till about 14 though, and ever since then it's been downhill...or uphill...I'm not sure which!

 

[Funderb]

7, shot .22s and an sks, got my own at 16 as a gift.

 

[Legionnaire]

10 or 11 when I first shot a friend's bolt action .22 rifle. Didn't do much more until college, when I shot on the rifle team. Didn't own my first gun until I was 27 or 28. But I've made up for it since ...

 

[357sigRog]

I was 4 or 5 and the gun was a .22lr.