You'll try anything once........Grandfather's 1925 Abercrombie & Fitch 10GA double barrel with 32" barrels. 8 years old and my same aged cousin held the barrels up for me. It launched me backwards about 6 feet.
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How old were you when you first fired a gun?
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Man, I haven't heard that name in a minute. I lived there 2 years and that's where I learned to shoot .22lr for the first time at 12. Dad wasn't really into firearms and I had to beg to get him to teach me on his old Marlin 39A from when he was a kid.
Guns I loved shooting as a kid, my dad's SKS and Makarov. I guess ammo was so cheap for them in the 90's it was the two guns he didn't mind me just loading and shooting till we we wore out.
Also the 22's. He had a old Ruger standard and a heritage revolver with a stupid long barrel, Marlin model 60's and 39.
We always had bigger bore revolvers and leverage actions, but he didn't let me load and shoot those near as much as the SKS and mak.
First rifle he gave was a Marlin 35rem. Still hunt with it to this day.
Also the 22's. He had a old Ruger standard and a heritage revolver with a stupid long barrel, Marlin model 60's and 39.
We always had bigger bore revolvers and leverage actions, but he didn't let me load and shoot those near as much as the SKS and mak.
First rifle he gave was a Marlin 35rem. Still hunt with it to this day.
Remington nylon 66 was my 1st firearm I shot. I still have it too. I was 5 or 6 back in 1977 or 1978ish.
I realized I never said what I shot first despite asking the question. My first was my dad's Belgian SA22 rifle. I still have it, one of the few I have. Still shoots like the day it was made, and I'm meticulous about keeping it clean and working. Only issue I've ever had was the extractor spring needing to be replaced. He literally bought it the day he was naturalized, with his citizenship certificate in hand. Said it was the only thing he hadn't done(besides voting) and wanted to buy a gun at the local shop. They sold him this nice little Browning, which he gave to me, and I'm planning on giving to my kid.
I'd say around 8 or 9, my dad's .22. Pellet gun before that. First shotgun was about 12, a single shot 20 gauge. First hunt probably 13, went quail hunting with my dad and uncle.
12 yrs old. My friends dad took us dove hunting with a 12 gauge and I got 2. He cleaned and cooked them for us, they were delicious
I got a Red Ryder BB gun when I was 6 and didn't shoot my eye out
I got a Red Ryder BB gun when I was 6 and didn't shoot my eye out
first BB gun at age 5
.22 at age 6
.22 at age 6
I started on BB guns at 4 years old (CO2 pellet pistol and pump-action Crosman BB rifle) and took my first shots through a firearm on my 5th birthday with my dad's Marlin Model 60.
My intro to centerfire pistol was on my 11th birthday with my dad's 1911 in 45 Auto.
I then inherited a '67 Winchester Model 70 in .243 not long after my 12th birthday. That rifle is still my whitetail rig to this day for nostalgia alone, even though I have far better options to pick from these days.
Some pics of my first time putting rounds through the M70, and my first time running a 12ga, at 12 years old somewhere in South Carolina with my uncle and grandpa:
My intro to centerfire pistol was on my 11th birthday with my dad's 1911 in 45 Auto.
I then inherited a '67 Winchester Model 70 in .243 not long after my 12th birthday. That rifle is still my whitetail rig to this day for nostalgia alone, even though I have far better options to pick from these days.
Some pics of my first time putting rounds through the M70, and my first time running a 12ga, at 12 years old somewhere in South Carolina with my uncle and grandpa:
