10 Ring Tao
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Many positive experiences shooting various pieces, early in life.
First was a little bb pistol you had to cock for each shot. My dad draped a bed sheet from the ceiling to a bench, so the bb's would be stopped and then roll down and collect at the bottom. I peppered many a paper target with that setup.
Then later on at about age 12, I did rifle merit badge at scout camp, and ended up getting the marksmanship award for the entire camp. I shot the best score out of any boy there.
With such success early on, I loved shooting because it seemed I had a knack for it.
Unfortunately, I didn't get to shoot anything outside of scouts (.22 and 20ga only a couple more times) until 9th grade. My karate instructor took a bunch of us to the range, and it was my first opportunity to shoot handguns. I still remember what a joy it was to shoot that P7.
No more shooting through the end of highschool.
My first year at college, I took an ROTC class as an easy elective. At a FTX, I got to shoot a full auto M16. Then got to use an M16 in a simulated ambush using blanks. What fun.
Also that year at school, I got addicted to the game Counter Strike. I read up on and learned all about my favorite guns in that game. Yes, believe it or not, one the driving forces was a computer game. I've wanted, and looked into getting, an FN FiveseveN since before they were civvie legal because of that game.
A few years later, at 22, I finally had the money and accumulated knowledge to buy my first handgun, a glock 19. With inheriting my grandfather's collection later that year, and continuing to expand the kinds of shooting I love (handguns! sporting clays! evil rifles! oh my!), my collection steadily grew to what it is today.
First was a little bb pistol you had to cock for each shot. My dad draped a bed sheet from the ceiling to a bench, so the bb's would be stopped and then roll down and collect at the bottom. I peppered many a paper target with that setup.
Then later on at about age 12, I did rifle merit badge at scout camp, and ended up getting the marksmanship award for the entire camp. I shot the best score out of any boy there.
With such success early on, I loved shooting because it seemed I had a knack for it.
Unfortunately, I didn't get to shoot anything outside of scouts (.22 and 20ga only a couple more times) until 9th grade. My karate instructor took a bunch of us to the range, and it was my first opportunity to shoot handguns. I still remember what a joy it was to shoot that P7.
No more shooting through the end of highschool.
My first year at college, I took an ROTC class as an easy elective. At a FTX, I got to shoot a full auto M16. Then got to use an M16 in a simulated ambush using blanks. What fun.
Also that year at school, I got addicted to the game Counter Strike. I read up on and learned all about my favorite guns in that game. Yes, believe it or not, one the driving forces was a computer game. I've wanted, and looked into getting, an FN FiveseveN since before they were civvie legal because of that game.
A few years later, at 22, I finally had the money and accumulated knowledge to buy my first handgun, a glock 19. With inheriting my grandfather's collection later that year, and continuing to expand the kinds of shooting I love (handguns! sporting clays! evil rifles! oh my!), my collection steadily grew to what it is today.
