First time you ever shot a gun

[Redtbird]

September 1965, Fort Lost in the Woods, Misery, rifle range, age 18. Learned to shoot an M-14. WOAH!

Yeah, yeah, yeah... I had a late start.

 

[Bennettjh]

Probably 5 or 6 with a BB gun, couple years later, .22.

Still have both. Good memories for sure.

 

[GunSlinger]

The winter of 1961. My dad and I went rabbit hunting for the first time and at the end of the day I got to fire his Mossberg model 190 16 ga. shotgun. I was hooked at the first trigger pull. Dad bought it new in 1954 or 55. It was never put away without a detailed cleaning even if it was never fired. It's how a lot of the WWII guys handled their firearms, and how I learned safety, and care of any firearm. I own that Mossberg now and it's still in pristine condition. It gets cleaned every six months whether it's been fired or not.

 

[oldpink]

Too bad I can't remember exactly how old I was, but I do remember the gun: Ithaca 37 20 gauge
Dad showed me how to shoot it by the red maple at the fence bordering the cow pasture.
I couldn't have been over seven years old at the time.
Later, he showed me how to line up on some nasty starlings sitting in the huge elm at the other side of our driveway and let them have it.
He still has that Ithaca.

 

[EvilKidsMeal]

Probably when I was around 8 years old (23 now). It was with my grandpa, at an old post office turned hunting camp in the Adirondack Mountains. I don't know what model the gun was, but it was a scoped, bolt action .22. I don't think it was his gun though, because I seem to remember someone bringing it to him before we left for camping. First non-toy gun I ever touched.

I still have the .22 bullet that my grandpa dug out of the log, we posted the target on, with his jack knife. Also, kept a handful of brass from the session.

 

[yote hunter]

1970 I was 8yrs old shot my grandpas Sears and Roebuck single shot 12ga at a walnut hanging over a fence row... It had a hair trigger and like to broke my shoulder and my dad laughed his ass off when I shot it, I had a bruise for a week... I have never shot that gun sense... Still have it in the safe and will never get rid of it...

 

[Ben Nelson]

I was about 26 when this city boy shot a single-shot .22 rifle at the in-laws farm. I was about 40 when I first shot a handgun.

 

[JollyMon]

When I was 17 and living in Detroit. Went to the local gun range with my buddy (who happened to work there) and rented a full auto MP5. I started out strong.

 

[THE BIG SITT]

Probably 9-11 or so at church camp in Mississippi. Single shot .22lr.

First time shooting a pistol was around 16 at a family friends house. H&K USP 9mm.

 

[indiucky]

I waited until 5th grade (how old is that?) to shoot a handgun. .32 H&R.

That's weird...First gun I ever shot was an H&R 32 revolver...(Fifth grade no less!) Dad had a Smith 28 and the H&R. The H&R 32 was his "Kit gun"...We were on our way fishing up to Deam's Lake and stopped at a friend of his farm and put a cylinder through...I still have the brass cases taped on the little card I made up for it...

The model 28 was his "Sunday go to meeting gun" and it was another couple of years before I got to shoot it....

 

[ParaManAR15]

I was probably around 6, first time dove hunting with my dad and uncle in Texas. Gave me a single shot .410 to shoot the birds that landed in the trees. Also shot my uncle's 12 Ga. over/under that same day, with him bracing me and helping me hold the gun as it was a little heavy for my scrawny butt.

 

[GlockRock]

Late 80's or early 90's. My grandpa's Remington 22 bolt action. He got it in 1922 when he was 12. I would have been 8-10 years old.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

Don't remember exactly how old I was when I started with bb/pellet guns, but still in grade school. Around 10 years old, one of Dad's friends gave me a Mossberg .410 bolt action that I took squirrel hunting for my first time. I still remember hesitating to pull the trigger, thinking it was a trap and that I was going to get in trouble for shooting that squirrel.

 

[OakRiver]

2012 aged 29. First gun I ever fired was a Springfield XD-9, followed very swiftly by a P90

 

[DoggyDaddy]

Late 80's or early 90's. My grandpa's Remington 22 bolt action. He got it in 1922 when he was 12. I would have been 8-10 years old.

Wait, your grandpa is only 2-4 years older than you??

 

[VN Vet]

I too was likely around 6 years of age. The rifle was a Stevens bolt action single shot .22 cal. I don't remember my first target. It was likely a fence post. That'll be sixty years ago this Summer.