First time you fired a shot

[xseler]

Got my first BB gun around age 4 or 5. Fired my first 'real' gun, a Stevens 311 double barrel in .410, round 6 years old. Guess that I forgot about the instruction on the two triggers....you can figure out the rest. However, I was 'hooked' right there and then!


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[OkieJoe72]

Don’t know if this was my first time shooting, but my first memory of shooting was a single shot .410 when I was around 7 or 8.

 

[Preacherman]

Desk pop or outside?

 

[XYZ]

Spring of first grade. Dad had just got back from being overseas, Air Force, and we had just moved to Duluth, MN. Took us out to a dump and let us shoot up a bunch of 22lr.

 

[bushmaster06]

It was over Christmas break in 1989, I was either about to turn 6 or had just turned 6, and all of the menfolk went out to do some shooting and with the help of my dad I got to put a few rounds of .38 Special through his 686. I've been hooked since.

 

[SoonerP226]

I was six and we went to my grandpa's farm. I got to shoot his Browning Sweet 16. I was pretty big for a six year old, so I obviously had some help from my dad, and it knocked me on my butt, but I hit the target.

Sadly, the shotgun got burned up in a house fire a few years later, but my dad and grandma moved heaven and earth to find its twin, and I do have that one.

 

[AKmoose]

7 years old with a Colt Colteer .22 dad bought for me for $40 in 1967, still have the Colt.

 

[dennishoddy]

Had a BB gun when real young, and shot the first real gun at 11 years old when buying my first gun which was a .410.

 

[crispy]

i went hunting with my dad when i was about 10 or so. we used to go out to this big private farmland out near pryor to dove hunt. i shot a 12 gauge as did my twin brother. he didnt shoulder it tight against his shoulder like i did and about knocked him over. it was hilarious. fast forward about 9 years later, and my oldest brother took me to the shooting range to shoot a dan wesson 1911 he had just bought. i put a full magazine though it and knew that was going to be my hobby for the rest of my life. to this day, i love 1911s more than any other handgun. they just feel right to me lol

 

[caliberbob]

My parents are very conservative people, but growing up we only had BB guns as kids. I remember my dad had what we called an “elephant gun” in the closet but turns out he bought it from my uncle because he was in a financial bind. We didn’t have a lot of money so my parents just never spent money on guns or anything like that . With that being said I don’t believe I fired an actual gun until I was 18 . Don’t judge, I’ve turned out alright for being a weirdo