Seeing this young ‘un shooting at The Range at Austin, I remembered playing with toy guns as a kid. Cowboys and Indians, Americans vs. Nazis, cops and robbers. But my family was anti-actual gun. So I started my shooting career at the tender young age of 38. I like to think I’ve made up for lost time, but how could I? I lost three decades of valuable shooting life. How old were you when you first shot your first gun? Who taught you? How?
Government is not the solution to the problem, government I’d the problem.
Five years old. My father bought some BB and pellet guns and showed me how to shoot.
Didn’t shoot a firearm until the age of 22, when I went to a small resort near Poughkeepsie, NY, where they had a one-shot bolt-action .22. They gave us CB/gallery rounds!
I was 12 years old when I first shot a gun. My dad taught me to shoot with an old Mossberg 410 bolt action shotgun. We were shooting at an old tree stump on our backyard at about 25yards. I completely missed the stump alltogether on my very first shot. But that started the addiction that has done nothing but grown since.
Other news outlets have reported that the Mandalay Bay claims that he opened fire on the crowd 40 seconds after the guard radioed in the shooting. It’s unclear how long the guard took to radio in the shooting.
Here’s one such link: http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-vegas-shooting-mandalay-20171012-story.html
I realize it’s the LA Times, but…
40 seconds between being shot at and starting shooting out the windows and 40 seconds between radioing it in and starting shooting aren’t the same thing.
5 or so. Don’t remember exactly, bb gun. Moved up to .22’s shot “a couple times a month” up until late teens. Then just drifted away from it. Quit hunting quit shooting.
Joined the Air Force, qualified on both the M-16 & the M-9; Bought my first handgun (Colt 1991a1). Shot it once, set it in the drawer and didn’t touch it for years. 2005; Started hunting again as a way to bond with my father. Bought a bolt action rife. A few years after that, I started buying ammo for the 1911 again; started shooting whenever near a gravel pit. Bought my .22 pistol, bought a 9mm, got into some local action pistol matches. I currently shoot once a week. So it comes and goes in cycles.
Actually, I wonder if the NRA’s statement has been misinterpreted.
“The NRA believes that devices designed to allow semi-automatic rifles to function like fully-automatic rifles should be subject to additional regulations.”
Nowhere do they say or imply that bump stocks actually allow semi-autos to function like full-autos – and they don’t, as the law currently defines it. Their statement, taken literally, seems to be “enforce existing law.”
I wonder if everybody is getting worked up over a non-statement.
Shot a .22 rifle for the first time around the age of 10, a couple different .22 pistols through my teens but it was when I was 17 and went to go visit my uncle in the Arizona desert that I caught the bug. We shot about 12 different guns that day, rifles and handguns. From a Thompson Contender in .223 to a Ruger .45 colt spitting out .454 Casull level handrolls. Was a great day.
9 I think on a Stevens single shot .22 , bought my first .22 that year too , that was before the 1968 law and all hardware stores sold guns and ammo
I grew up plinking with Dad. We’d put like 1500 rounds into the hillside at a church friend’s cow pasture. Great great fun. I can’t rememeber what age we started
One man moved in with an extensive collection of cool stuff which he let us try out. And with which another friend proceeded to shoot our picnic blanket with a mac10 and set the hillside on fire with a tracer round. Good memories.
The best memories were just plinking with the old speedmaster and bersa, though. Learned a great deal about gun safety dos and don’ts. Like don’t decock a gun by trying to slowly lower the hammer. You will almost shoot your family jewels off that way. *facepalm* Worst part was the gun had a decocker the whole time. Yes I still feel stupid about that one.
I’ve only shot a bullpup rifle once, but I love the concept. It was like a revelation (never mind the crappy-ass trigger).
This rifle seems like a pretty sweet firearm, all in all…especially the full-powered cartridge in such a compact package. If I had $$, I’d buy one.
Obama did this! The NWO! Globalists! Soros! I’M A REAL MAN! THEY’RE TURNING THE FROGS GAY!
Eight years old, shooting Marlin rifles and gallery shorts at amusement parks in Brooklyn.
My grandfather took me to the galleries, but since he had no idea how to shoot, I was self-taught by necessity.
I believe I was in kindergarten or first grade when I shot a firearm for the first time, with my father’s help shooting a pump-action rifle in .22 LR of course. I still have a picture in my mind of the stream exploding where the bullet hit the water. I don’t believe I ever shot rimfire or centerfire again (with or without my father) until I was a teenager.
When I was in fourth or fifth grade, my parents bought me a Crossman 760 10-pump pellet rifle. I probably put more than 2,000 BBs and pellets through that thing in the woods near my home, totally unsupervised of course.
At some point in high school, I purchased my own Marlin Model 60 semi-automatic rifle in .22 LR of course. I probably shot about 800 rounds through that beauty. I still have it, it still looks great, and it still functions flawlessly as far as I know.
Almost all of my shooting has been on my own, shooting only occasionally with friends or family.
Sixteen years old, i got started with a FNH FAL.
Those were the days.
JV
I was 8 when I first got to shoot an air rifle. It was at the national guard armory our scout troop met at. I’ll never forget it, it was like christmas morning. My parents were strict about guns; we only ever had very few pretend ones, so this felt like a big step in growing up.
First real guns were .22’s at scout camp, which was always my favorite part.
6. Dad was an instructor for the navy at the range across the highway from Miramar naval air station.
Watching jets dogfight and shooting guns…
It was horrible!
Plus, I had two really cool uncles whe were way into guns, shooting and reloading.
Good times
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.22 bolt action at 8 with uncle and cousins at grandfathers property. Own .22 single shot from 14. Bought Ruger 10 .22 at 16. First 12 ga at 17
Joined Australian Army at 17 so mostly local version of 7.62 mm FAL plus M60, M16A1 etc. Steyr came in just before I left.
Currently still original .22 plus others plus several .223, 30-06, 12 gauges and 9mm.
The ripe old age of 4 with a little of my dad’s help.. Living on a range it just seemed right. H&R .22 revolver and an old pump .22 rifle. Living on a ranch it just seemed like time.
I don’t recall the exact age, but I was about 8 or 10 or so when I first shot a firearm. I don’t recall the exact weapon, but it was some sort of tube fed .22. I wasn’t really given any proper instruction that first time, but the situation was very controlled by my uncle who took us all shooting.
Later on my own father gave me a basic run down of how to safely handle a hunting rifle when I got into it at about 13, and I was given proper classroom instruction when I took the state mandated hunters safety course. Only then I could legally hunt deer with the rest of the family. My own family was rather poor, so we had to go down and do organized hunts to stock up on game each season. Turkey, bore, and deer every year.
We didn’t even do much target shooting between seasons. We all were about 2 steps removed from Kentucky Coal minors, actually on the other side of the Appalachian from them. Ever shot had to count.
After reading these comments it is obvious. The 22 lr is a highly addictive substance. Or at the very least a gateway drug.
That looks like the most useless blade geometry ever. My two biggest knife pet peeves: Concave blades (PITA to sharpen) and tanto points.
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I must have been 5 or 6. I remember shooting a Marlin 81 DL bolt action .22LR and a J. C. Higgins .22LR semi-auto with a scope and a retractable sling (which I thought was very cool). I also shot a 1922 Colt Woodsman .22LR.
We would shoot at beer cans on sticks across a pond, using the dam as a berm. My dad would kneel down and put the rifle on his shoulder as a support so I could shoot it. Great memories! And best of all, I now own the Marlin and the Colt. Traded the JC Higgins a couple of years ago, which had a cracked stock by then, as a partial payment for a new Mossberg 930 JM Pro shotgun for my 3-gun habit.
I started shooting when I was 20. A little late.
As penance, I’ve been teaching my kids to shoot as soon as they can pick up a gun.
Khorne only cares that the young ones start learning to shoot as soon as possible.
Started at 8 on the farm in Md. of my uncle & aunt. At 11, dad took me to the NYPD firing range on City Island and taught me to shoot his service revolvers (I still have them).
4 1/2 years old. I vividly remember that summer of 1965, because my dad also bought me a Taco mini-bike at the same time. His two favorite things, firearms and motorcycles, quickly became my favorites, too.
I remember waking up on Sunday morning with a ringing in my ears from gunfire, because we’d gone shooting on Saturday. I also remember liking it… Hearing protection? Nah. Your ears will stop ringing in a week or so…
someone is hiding something. It sounds like a setup by a government informant. Maybe I watch too many movies.
Rasmussen did a couple of books that are worth reading. Interesting speaker as well.
The quote from Geo. Washington was more right than Scott Rasmussen’s take on the matter. Government is force, not unity.
The way I see it, government can be trusted to implement rules that threaten to force compliance about their purported subject matter; and the rules can be short or long, straightforward or convoluted, sensible or misguided, depending on many factors including vanity, venality, righteousness, disdain for the populace, arrogance of the powerful, faith in central planning, etc.
However, if one trusts government to do all of that, one still does not want government to do much more than it has to, because experience has shown us that too many past governmental actions have had a deleterious effect upon the populace at large.
Century Arms C93 chokes and destroys brass. Might be salvageable with new rollers and some other work, just dont want to dump money into it when so many other better guns are out there waiting to be had.
NAA Guardian .32 ACP , drops mags all the time even after they mailed me the revised mag release, FTF and stovepipes, only likes American Eagle FMJ. Too bad, its a good looking mouse gun.
I was about 10 and spent a week at the old Pinebrook church camp in Stroudsburg PA. We had a one hour rifle class every morning right after the Bible study – learned safety, nomenclature, aiming, etc Then we got to shoot maybe 25 rounds out of single shot Remington bolt .22s. What a horribly corrupting experience that scarred me for life. God AND guns.
Be the person that has the right kind of weapon to shoot back.
In this case heavy scoped rifle with rangefinder.
So I have been told that there are a lot of problems with the Triggertech trigger for crossbows (hunting season started, people talk). Evidently the vibration of the bow or strings causes problems with the trigger resetting incorrectly. I would be surprised if cross bow recoil causes problems, but rifle recoil does not.
Has anyone experienced problems with these triggers, crossbow or otherwise?
told you Hillary was in Vegas with a belt fed rifle…..
Ryan’s a worm who is more concerned with his next free vacation in DC than in representing the rights of the people he is supposed to represent.
You bag’m. I’ll tag’m.
It is clear the writer is NOT a left-handed shooter. If so he would not denigrate the reversible ejection port system.
It’s 4.15 am and I can make some phone calls and come home with s few SKS’s a couple AR ‘ s and AK 47’s, all of them off the books, so what’s this law going to do?
Hey Cisco,
After you disarm this country by disarming our so called evil military, how do you plan to stop China from owning the West Coast?
Whether the call is to destroy our evil military/industrial complex or disarm our evil nuclear stockpile the call is always the same. Disarm US. But what about the other guy? Where is the call to disarm THEM TOO?
We spend too much money on the military that should have gone to social programs? Pick up your copy of the Constitution and show me the part about the govt. being responsible for the national defense. It’s in there. But what isn’t in there is any duty of govt. to provide even one single social program or charity. What it says is that anything not spelled out specifically as a power of the federal govt. IS NOT a power of the govt but is the business of the states or of the people. And you want to eliminate spending on what is the FIRST duty of the govt. and spend it instead on the social gravy train of charity that is not a Constitutional duty of the govt.?
The Revolution was an evil war fought by fools and suckers? Divisive? Unnecessary?
Reading comprehension? I have read and I comprehend that you are the last person who should be in charge of anything of importance in this country.
Looks like a gun for space pirates.
That said it’s a free market, ar!
So let me get this straight, a terrorist shoots s bunch of people and the government wants to takes my guns away. I mmmm ahhh, I guess I’m stupid
Perhaps Jesus is looking for his red Swingline stapler…..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHHZBmF8mk4