What's everyone's age and shooting experience?

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Experience is measured in how many rounds fired a year as opposed to how many years. Someone who has been "shooting for 20 years" when it's only ten or fifteen rounds a year (or a hundred) sighting in their deer rifle, has less experience than someone who has been shooting for only five years but shoots 300 rounds a month. Be that as it may, I've been plinking with guns for 25 years, but the last 14, I've been SHOOTING (3000-8000 rounds a year).
 
22, started shootin .22s in the scouts when I was 12. Have moved on to many bigger, funner weapons since:D
 
Experience is very relative, and doesn't depend so much on rounds per year as it does the type of training regimen one endures. Some shooters only get a years worth of experience in 10 years of shooting. Others can gain 10 years experience in one year of shooting. If you're satisfied with your shooting ability, and don't work to get better EVERY TIME YOU SHOOT, then you're just sending rounds downrange - not gaining experience. Even if you shoot 500,000 rounds per year, it doesn't help anything unless you're trying to improve.

As for me?

I'm 26 years old. I've been shooting since I was 12, but rarely until I was 21 and could buy my own pistols and go shooting by myself. My family wasn't into guns when I was growing up. I'm proud to say, however, that's starting to change. I've been shooting regularly for about 5 and a half years. The past 2 years or so, I've been going to the range about twice a week (or trying to, anyways... usually I make it). With some good teaching, a couple of excellent books, and a new interest in competition, I've learned more in the last 3 months than I had in the previous 14 years.

I'd LOVE to see Greybear shoot :)
 
Rounds vs. Years

Well, I'm 66 yrs old.
I began shooting, .22's at about 10 yrs.
I got a single shot .22 of my own at 12 yrs. old.
Guess I've been shooting about 56 years, hunnh.

I love plinking with a .22, handgun or rifle.
I bought my first handgun, at about 18 yrs. a used break-open revolver,
Iver-Johnson I think. It's long gone.
First new handgun was a Ruger Standard automatic, .22 lr.
It cost $39.95, then, in '63. It has had countless "Blocks" of lr-cartridges,
through it. And, it still shoots true.

I've always been an upland bird & small game hunter.
I like fried squirrel or cotton-tail, as well as bob-whites, for dinner.
DSW Sharon is a "Service brat". She loves to shoot too
She has her own shotguns & sidearms. I'd never try to pick one for her.
I did that.......once.

I tried cowboy shooting once. TOO Competitive, for me.
I still have the cowboy guns. My kids & grand kids love to shoot them.

Favorite guns are Ruger revolvers, (DA or SA), 1911's, 12 ga. 870's,
leverguns and .22 rifles.
Sorry, I ramble when I post.
Have Fun!
 
I am thirty-nine, and I started at age six with my father's Ruger Standard Auto pistol. Thus, I have been shooting for thirty-three years. .22 LR is still my favorite caliber, and I have more than a few Ruger Mark II pistols.

Funny thing: That first lesson and the target, an empty Maxwell House coffee can, form a memory to me as important as my wedding day. Talk about the formative years.
 
I'm 24, started with an air pistol at around age 14. Shortly graduated to .22 revolver, and been moving along ever since. :cool: Just bought my first "serious" rifle a few months ago (the other being a Henry Survival Rifle 5 years ago), a Yugo SKS.
 
I am 54 and been shooting some type of gun since I was 8. I shoot a pistol far better than a rifle so I often go hunting with a pistol. Steve48
 
61 and firing

61 ... got and fired my first - Rem. .22 ScoreMaster 511 on Halloween Day in
1953. Started collecting in 1959 ... and been shooting/hunting ever since!:)
 
Have to agree with Cousin Mike. Not only is it the amount of rounds fired but what you are doing with those rounds to improve your skill. That's what I meant by differentiating plinking from shooting. I started late, after graduating from college, about the same time Sir Harry did (23). Known him a long time too, online at least. So figuring the math, 25 years plinking , last 14 or 16 shooting, I guess that puts me in my early 50s.
 
Shooting

Age - 29
Shooting- 23 years - My first shot was my dad's .22 revolver at 6 (I was upset that he would not let me shoot the .357 mag)
Owning - 15 years (Got a .22 LR bolt of my own in 8th grade)
Instructor - 4.5 years
 
60 in a few weeks. Started shooting/hunting at age ten. Have been instructing since Nov 1968. Seldom miss a week to spend at least one night at the range, however during Winter it is three nights per week (instructing, shooting, coaching).
 
19 in November.

Great-grandfather started me off with a BB gun and some tin can lids strung out on fishing line in between his apple trees when I was 4. Been a gun nut ever since. :D
 
I'm 15 and have been shooting since I was 11. The first gun I ever shot was a .45 ACP Glock. I have gotten a .410 shotgun, double barrel Baikal, .38 Special Taurus revolver, and Mini-14 since then.
 
Have no idea how old I was when I first started shooting. I don't recall the first time. It was just something I grew up with and have been around a lot of guns in the house all my life. We didn't have gun locks, safes, and hidden closets. Guns were stacked in every room. Nearly every Sunday afternoon was a trip to a gun show somewhere.

1STHUNT.jpg
 
"Nearly every Sunday afternoon was a trip to a gun show somewhere."

Same here. I remember going to my first gun show when I was 3 years old. It was September 1991 at the Hampton Coliseum. I was 3 months from my fourth birthday. By the way, how old is that photo?
 
I remember going to my first gun show when I was 3 years old. It was September 1991 at the Hampton Coliseum.
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It would have been nearly 40 yrs earlier than that for me.
 
15 years practical experience... military and all.

Probably only 3 years total of aggregate serious practicing/shooting. Serious CCW time is probably only 2 years increasing day-to-day. I like to think I know what I'm doing, but I'm smart enough to know I'm a dumbass in most respects. I can hit what I aim at in most cases.
 
Got my first rifle at 9, and have shot every caliber from .17 HMR to 50 cal. So I have only 27 years on deck.
 
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