The first gun you ever shot

[Geezer59]

Age three - Dad (and avid Bulleye pistol shooter) was on leave from Korea. He stood behind me, kept his hands surrounding mine to keep me from pointing the muzzle in an unsafe direction. He'd placed an old tomato can in the gravel driveway of our construction site as a target. I wasn't too sure exactly how to use those fine sights on his Colt Woodsman, but did hit that can several times and made it bounce around. One of the happiest memories of my childhood...

 

[bl4ckd0g]

My parents were anti's, so they wouldn't even let my grandpa take me to the range with his Lyman-scoped Mossberg .22lr bolt action. I spent a week w/ my uncle when I was 12 and he brought me to the range w/ his Marlin lever-action in .35 Rem. He set a milk jug at 50 yards and I managed to burst it open on my second shot.

 

[Limeyfellow]

I was about five or six and fired my dad's .22 rifle in the back garden, back in England when you could do that sort of thing.

 

[CZ-100]

I Was 6 yrs old, and it was a bolt action .22, My dad gave it too me and I still have it. Im 42 now.

 

[KABA]

Stevens Model 1915 in 22.

 

[paintballdude902]

umm i was in 6thgrade and it was a boy scout camp special a single shot bolt action .22lr with the worst sights ever lol

 

[Jaenak]

I was about 6 or so and my first gun I ever shot was my dad's 12 gauge shotgun. I flinched hard when it fired but I liked it and didn't think it kicked too hard. It was really noisy though. Funny, now I'm much older and I think a 12 gauge kicks a little too hard. Something's not adding up here.

The second gun I ever fired was some random bolt action .22LR my grandpa gave me when I was about 10.

 

[ColinthePilot]

.22LR single shot bolt action at Boy Scout summer camp. i guess i was 11 or 12.

 

[crazed_ss]

17years old.. M16A2 Service Rifle in boot camp.

 

[Aran]

I was about 8, and it was my dad's .22 rifle. No idea what it was, since I haven't seen it since.

And I'm still pretty sore at him for it. He used to go hunting with his brother-in-law on occasion, did a whole bunch of target shooting... and then all of a sudden he was 100% anti-gun. It's probably best for his heart that he's never visited my apartment...

 

[xjchief]

First gun I ever shot was a little snub 38 Sp. I think I was 12 and my dad had to help hold the gun in my hand.

First rifle I shot was an M60 in JROTC in 7th grade. 2nd was a M16 a day later.

 

[#shooter]

I think I was 12 and it was a 20 gauge.

 

[Legionnaire]

About age 10 or 11 I shot a friend's bolt action .22 at his family farm. I have no idea what make or model it was. Just a bolt action .22 with iron sights. No guns at home while I was growing up. No opposition to them, just not a priority in my family's urban/suburban lifestyle.