Your first time firing a gun

Thought I would start this up, when was your first time looking down gun sights or a scope. Shout out the gun, place you were at, and age, if you wish to.
For me.... It was a 50 cal mounted on a M113 personal carrier, In Butzbach West Germany at a place called area 44. I was 11 years old, that was in the late 60's or early 70's.
Been in the blood ever since.....

 

A .22 about 10 maby.... But now i got a .22 ruger, a 12g pump, and 16 side by side

 

30-06 at about 8 yrs. wooped my ass!!!! lol

 

Hey TRDMAN, in you pic does that buck have a small crab claw, would be on your right. Eyes may be playing with me, I am seeing bucks all over if you know what I mean.

 

Mine was my old pump action .22 when I was about 7 or 8? I still have the .22 along with 30-06 rifle which I have still yet to fire. Killed my first deer with my dads Rem 280. I also just recently went to the shooting range at West Edmonton Mall and fired off the .44 magnum along with a variety of other handguns....now that was a lot of fun.

 

I was 9 or 10 and it was a lever-action .22 out on our ranch. I wish I still had that gun; my grandfather got it for my dad when he was a boy...

 

here is some good pics of it for ya longbow!!

 

bb gun super little. i guess the 1st gun that used gunpowder woulda been a .22 sometime around 8yo or so

 

I was 8 or 9 with a .22 single shot bolt action Winchester on my parents' old farm. A couple months ago my dad gave me that gun.

 

Man i'm going nuts here, those are NICE!! haven't had the pleasure of getting one with a crab claw or drop tine yet. But my number is coming up sooner or later.
THANKS.....and good luck to ya this year.

 

GOOD LUCK TO YOU TOO!!!! everybody gets a biggn' just gotta wait for the right timming!!

 

Got a Red Ryder bb gun at 8 yrs old. My dog Bucky and I would work up and down the holler by dads house shootin sparrows and such. Would get into a groundhawg from time to time and have to call gramps or dad for backup. Looked just like this:

 

first gun i ever shot besides a bb gun, was a remington 12 guage pump shotgun.......and i think i was about 7 or 8. my dad's buddy told me how to hold the gun, but i wasnt interpreting what he was sayin, so i held it under my arm. pulled the trigger, the butt of the damn gun came up and kicked me in the face.....about knocked my happy ass out!!!! left the left side of my face bruised and busted my nose!!!! i learned how to hold them after that!!!

 

Not sure about the first time i shot a gun, but i know the most memorable...I got home from school one day and decided i wanted to try to shoot...I had no clue what gun was what...All i know is my dad had a riffle in our gun cabniet with the shells laying beside it...All i knew at the time was this gun was HEAVY...and i wanted to shoot it...didnt know which caliber it was, I knew nothing about riffles...Only shotguns...

I pulled the 4 wheeler around, set up a pepsi can up on the fence...Figured out how to load it...laid the gun on the seat, looked through the scope and pulled the trigger...

The gun kicked back, scope cracked me between the eyes, sliced open my forehead, 9 stitches, knocked me back to the ground, left one hell of a bruise on my shoulder...I had no clue how to hold it...

Found out later on it was my dads........300 Ultra mag....!!!!!!

Never forget that day as long as I live...Looking back i realize how stupid that was...Now im the proud owner of that gun...Not sure how old i was...




I'll tell ya about the first time i shot a bow too...

Damn string skinned my forearm raw...Caught me right below the elbow, and went all the way down to my wrist...Left one hell of a burn, or scrape, or whatever you want to call it...All i know is it took the skin off and hurt like hell...

 

the first gun i learned to shoot was a double barrel 12ga. shooting skeet when i was about 11. i learned to love shooting skeet ever since

 

a M16A2

 

Our first gun was a Rossi 410/22 combo single shot. The first time we shot them we had a look on our face that was a cross between these 2 smilies We were 6 years old.

We also now each have a Mossberg 500 youth 20 gauge turkey gun. Almost got a turkey this year too. When we shot that for the first time we just looked like this

 

its awesome that your kids like the woods and hunting Ben!!!! if my kids turn out any like me.........my wife aint gonna know what to do with 3 hunters in the house!!!

 

mine was my dads rugar mkII .22 cal when i was 5 on our farm in tn shotting beer cans off the fence my first gn was given to me at 6yrs old single shot 22 iron peep sites still have it today