What Started You Shooting.

[Angelfire]

Hope this has not been discussed before.

Me, home made catapult, home made bow and arrows, air pistol then air rifle. Just seemed like a natural progression. On the local farm with the air gun one day, and an informal clay shoot was been set up in one of the fields, had a walk over - and as they say - the rest is history, hooked for life.

Phil*

[Chuck]

Oh god phil, that's a hard one.

usual toy guns and westerns, FN SLR's (probably would be banned now).....cap guns, air guns.....real guns.....what better way of turning money into noise...

[John25]

Golf match was rained off!

Sorry about the swear word Ovenpaa.

:roll:

[Tower75]

No idea really. No one in my family is a shooter or service man/woman.

I've always liked "guns" as a kid. You know; water-pistols, cap-guns (I think I was the last generation to have 'em), Nerf, dart-guns etc.

When I hit 15 I got a book, it was just a "coffee table" book, an illustrated encyclopaedia of firearms. I started reading it from cover to cover. Every now and then, well, actually, a lot of the time, terms and mechanisms would be discussed that I wouldn't understand. Thus, I had to get another book to explain what that term meant, and that new book lead to another term or mechanism, and so another book, and so on...

I hit 16 and decided to seek a gunclub, so I literally rang up directory enquires and asked for the nearest gunclub. The nearest one was one town over and it was an air-gun and .22 club. That started me shooting. After that I joined my current club at 17 and have been shooting full-bore ever since, and I'm 26 this week - though I don't shoot anywhere near as much as I like. It's a mixture of range-access and funds, i'm afraid.

[ovenpaa]

Hmm.. Gat air pistols, .22 Air rifles, joined a small bore rifle club at 16, no idea why though. Then added shotguns into the equation and shot clays for several years, shot pistol for a bit then neighbour started full bore and I tagged long one day and here I am wtfwtf

[Christel]

Shooting seabirds in Greenland when I was 13-14 years old, no idea what kind of birds they were, one day out on the sea got handed a .22 and that was it

Shot them, plucked and cooked them, need quite a few for a meal.

So of course being on a small boat surrounded by icebergs shooting at flying birds, I did not hit many during my years up there, however I did hit an iceberg a few times which I was told is not a good idea when you are in a small boat

:lol:

[John25]

however I did hit an iceberg a few times which I was told is not a good idea when you are in a small boat

:lol:

Why, do they shoot back?

:lol:

[saddler]

...the voices in my head....

[Sim G]

...the voices in my head....

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: bigteeth

[ovenpaa]

So I married someone who shot Arctic Tern's mostly because she could..