What Started You Shooting.

[karen]

Went to Freshers fair at Uni - saw a gorgeous bloke and decided to join whatever it was he was promoting. It was shooting.

Got the guy but found the shooting was more interesting than him :lol:

Love

karen

[condorman]

Joined the army when i was 15 as a boy soldier back in 71 and never looked back,left in 98 had a small break
but i just missed shooting so much so i've joined the Tamar rangers and now awaiting to get my FAC eventually
God i hate old age!!!!!!!!!!

[Christel]

God i hate old age!!!!!!!!!!

Got reading glasses yet?
:P

[Gaz]

My Scout troop had an airgun night on Tuesdays, so I went along to that and discovered I was rather good at it. Then one of our leaders saw an advert for the National Scout Air Rifle Championships and we went along to that.
Which was nice, because (somehow) I got invited to join the Scout national squad. They shot .22, which was far more interesting than airguns because they made a nice loud bang.
Through them, I got introduced to Surrey Venture Scout Rifle Club (as was), and they were interesting because they shot with rifles that made a really loud bang. That and repeatedly hitting the middle of the little black dot at 9 football pitches' length was rather invigorating.
I've since discovered .50 cal shooting (which makes a REALLY loud bang!), but at £3 a pop it's a bit beyond what my wallet can sustain, sadly.

[condorman]

Yes christel i have reading glasses + gran children thats when i found out how decrepid and cream-crackered
my body had become! just watching the kids tires me out???

[Christel]

:lol:

Grandchildren, at least you can hand them back

[Blu]

The usual toy guns and later air guns as a kid, then joined the Army Cadets and later the British Army. Had a couple of years in the UK before I came to America and have been shooting ever since.

Blu

[Blu]

:lol:

Grandchildren, at least you can hand them back

Yeah but not before you fill them full of sugar first it's called payback.

Blu

[Christel]

Full of sugar, very good

[phaedra1106]

The ubiquitous Gat pistol, then a lovely Webley .22 under-lever through my teens, discovered alchohol & women then in my early 20s a friend at work asked me to come along to his club one night, out in the wooly wilds of Stanley before they built the 693 bypass and Lampton Lion Park had Lions!, was a bit of a journey from Sunderland and many a time only got as far as Chester Le Street to realise that Stanley would be too snowed in to get there!.

Then fell in love .................... with a S&W 29 .44 magnum :lol: blued with a 6" (barrel), fooled around with a Beretta 92F 9mm and a terrible Armalite AR10 in 7.62 (convertible to full auto by taking a small bar out that was only held by a screw!) and then got my second love, a Parker Hale ex-Police heavy barreled .222

After that family commitments saw me gave it up (idiot!) until I started again with my youngest son in 2006.