What Started You Shooting.

[Burner]

Full of sugar, very good

I did that a few weeks ago.
I took my Great Nephews aged 5 and 9 years, to a war of 1812 event for the day.
(where the British kicked the stuffing out of the Yanks)
Spun them up to overload on everything sweet I could before I took them home.

I got started on shooting when I was four or five years old. My father handed me his .22 pump action rifle and showed me how it worked.
I still have that rifle.

[condorman]

Takes me a week to recover from the rug rats & the wife the same to clean all the sticky finger prints from the furniture
and i get ear ache from my daughter for winding them up but it's worth it!!!!!!!

[M99]

Born in the Welsh countryside - from as young as I can remember there was a shotgun in the corner of the kitchen, taken shooting once I had mastered ferreting and fishing - for the first year it was without any cartridges though - had to "learn" first - first shotgun was a Baikel SBS - it is still in my cabinet 28 years later.

Had a shotgun before I had an air rifle!!

Joined the forces, learnt to shoot at bigger things from further away, went to the USA and learnt to shoot even bigger things from even further away, got in to pistol shooting and competed an awful lot until they were stolen from us by the government of the day.

Have always shot for the table from a young age and still do, with the exception of foxes, I won't shoot anything I won't eat, for that reason I don't shoot hare, as I don't like the taste.

[Blackstuff]

I was always interested in anything that could launch a projectile as a child, water pistol, rubber 'bullet' gun, catapult, then discovered my dad had an air rifle (Webley Hawk) at 11, got taught the basics then wanted my own but as it was a choice between an air rifle or an air pistol and a remote control car tongueout i opted for the GAT pistol.
After than it was a G-10 steel BB gun,
then i went clay shooting with a family friend
then full-bore pistols with the family friend
then the pistol ban kicked in and got totally disillusioned with firearms
started going paintballing and airsofting regularly
came to my senses and got back into firearms, .22 and carbine
then full-bore rifles
then back to clays
then pest control
then PSG
And now i shoot everything i can, when i can, when funds allow

[saddler]

...started going paintballing and airsofting regularly

THAT explains much












:lol: tongueout

[Mike357]

Toy guns as a kid (inc the plastic FN SLR with the loadable mag that Chuck mentioned)), lots of games of Japs and Commandos etc. Then a little 303 in the cadets which then turned into air rifle, then .410 shotgun and then as I left school it was 12B, 22LR and shooting a lot of clays. Then I bought a CZ75, traded it in quick cause it had a gloss finish rather than a matt finish. Bought a Browning HP and then following a murder on our range and then the pistol ban that was that. Gave up FAC and SG in the late 90s and then started back about three years ago.

[tikkathreebarrels]

My son, Max. At the time he was in secondary school, blagged his way into work experience on a local farm, working with the gamekeeper, converting this into a weekend job. He was old enough to possess a shotgun but not to purchase the ammunition for it. So I had to apply for a SGC.
I'd had no interest in firearms up to this time, other than plinking with someone else's air rifle in my teens.
The visiting Firearms Licensing Assistant told me that I'd get hooked.
Eighteen years on, that keeper and I are still close mates and have been lamping together pretty much ever since but Max moved away from shooting within just a few years.

[greenshoots]

brought up in a shooting family tales of the family taking yanks out who where billeted with them out on the marshes (all gone know) shooting, first airifle then shootgun, poaching as a youngester with dogs, trained my own gundog and its downhill from there ...

greenshoots

[Chuck]

still got my \first air rifle...BSA Meteor Super, bought in June 1969....

also got my old fellas .177 smooth bore break barrel (I suppose that started it) from about 1939

[dromia]

I don't think anything started me shooting, I was brought up with it, it was part of daily life on the croft with 12 bore and fourten hammers guns, a B/A 22 and a 303 all kept behind the kitchen door and the ammunition in boxes in the dresser drawer.

I was a little surprised when getting older and travelling out of the Highlands to find out that it wasn't like that everywhere the postitive to that was that I also discovered that guns and shooting wasn't just blootering vermin and bambi there was a whole new world of discovery and lifetimes challenge and enjoyment.