What was /k/'s first time shooting like?

>>30956915
First real time shooting I think I was around 16 or 17
Friend's dad took us for a day of shooting.
He bought a few pistols, an AK and a rifle. I think a Remington 700. I don't remember.
It was pretty fun. He also took us to dinner, too.

>>30956915

Boy Scouts at 12, .22lr
Boy Scouts at 12, skeet shooting 12ga

I would later become the second best rifleman and best skeet shooter in the state. I lost by one point in rifles to someone in the same troop.

Boy Scouts also taught me how to cook, and we won several cookoffs as well.

I miss scouts, and my old troop sucks at cooking and shooting now. It's sad.

>>30956915
My first time shooting a gun was firing pistols at an FN sponsored shoot.

I shot 9mm first, and that surprised me. One of the instructors had me switch to a Five-seven, then to a .45, then back to 9mm.

At the time, .45 ACP to my surprise, felt easier to handle than 9mm.

>have never even held a weapon
fug

>be literal call of duty teenager eastern european
>turn 18
>limp wrist a glock
>hit 7s and 8s at 10 metres
>severely disappointed in firearms

>23 years old
>NEET at the time
>dad takes me to a sporting clays class
>hit an airborne moving target my very first time firing a weapon
>break open shotgun and get a whiff of spent casings
>I'm in love
Now I have my own job, apartment, and arsenal. Life's good.

my first time "shooting" according to my parents i was 3 years old when we were out at camp and my dad let me aim and pull the trigger on his marlin 22wmr, he was holding the rifle though.

first time legitimately shooting a gun was when i was 11 years and my grandfather passed away and left me and H&R 922 revolver and my mom let me shoot at paper targets (under supervision) until i went through a 500 box of .22, still have the revolver and put at least 100 rounds through it every time i go to the range

>>30956915
Nice blog faggot

>Be 20
>Just got into 4chan after all the happenings
>Start notshitposting /k/ as often as /pol/ and other boards
>Rent ancient Ruger Mk2 at a range
>It jams on the last mag fill
>Clear it
>Feeding error again
>Turn in and spaghetti out the door before the employee notices it's malfunctioning
>Fuck .22 in autos

>>30957264
There's a converted Bulgarian AKM in .22LR at my range and it jams every third shot. Not even funny.

>>30956915
>Be 20 years old
>At another family's house with my family (-dad) for Memorial Day
>Dad of the other family goes shooting with his AR-10
>His wife and sister join in with a .380 ACP and a 9mm (didn't get the brands, I think 9mm was a sig tho).
>They let me shoot all 3
>Felt good, man
Plan to get my first handgun next month

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>>30957264
Never had a problem with my MK II "Government Target Model". Then again I clean mine after every range trip. Sounds like the one you shot was dirty as fuck senpai.

like 7 or 8 shooting a little singleshot bolt action .22 by the shed behind my house at a 55gal drum

>>30956915
>Be Joo
>Get drafted
>Basic training, first thing we do after learning about M16 (the instructors were idiots BTW) was go to range to zero them.
>Supposed to have sandbag rest, morons brought empty bags so I didn't use one.
>6 rounds- 1 "feel shot", 5 at zeroing target.
Fun stuff.

My first time according to my parents was when I was 3. My uncle is an arms instructor so I shot a century arms ak and an ar-15. My first memory was when I was 8 and was shooting my grandfathers Winchester 30-30 and a glock 19.

>>30956915

>be me
>grow up in a antigun/noguns house
>watch tales of the gun on the history channel
>guns are cool
>buy an airsoft M14 when I was like 15
>shoot it at targets, never play against people because running around the woods shooting bbs at people didn't interest me
>fast forward to me about 18-19
>uncle is a cop and competitive shooter
>go to range with him and grampa
>fire uncles glock 17 or 19
>fire grampas 1911
>fire uncles Buckmark
>fire grampas colt .22lr target pistol (pic related, not my particular gun though)
>do really well with it
>fast forward to 21 years old
>buy marlin 60
>buy nugget
>buy 12 stevens 320 12 gauge
>buy Taurus .410
>at 22 I bought a hipoint carbine
>at 23 I bought a hipoint c9
>24 now, bought marlin xt-22 last week

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>>30957403

Forgot pic

>>30957403
Man Tales of the Gun.....
Any other comfy shows like it?

My father took me to a caliche pit with a target and a Savage 24 when I was 6. Had a lot of fun with the .22, but I kept asking to shoot the big barrel on the bottom.

Dad finally gave in and the .410 recoil scared the shit out of me. Good times.

>>30957412

There was a series on the history channel where they talked about the old West, I think it was called wild west tech, but there was an episode where they talked about old West guns like sxs shotguns and lever guns and wheel guns and stuff. There was a documentary in the history channel about trick shooters which was rrally cool.

>Be 12 yrs old
>Visiting crazy great-uncle in Indiana while mom and stepdad make a bunch of repairs to new house.
>He asks me if my grandpa (his older brother) ever took me shooting.
>"No"
>Asked if my mom (his niece) ever did.
>"No, she's never really wanted me around guns."
>Him: "Well, we'll just have to change that. Be up at 0700 tomorrow."
>Do as he asks, he drives us across the border and for about another half hour into Kentucky.
>He has an older son, in his 30s. Dude has acres and acres of property. And guns. Lots and lots of guns.
>He had a nearly mint condition M1 Garand. He also brought out a PU Mosin. (Didn't get to shoot the Mosin, but it was my first exposure to one.)
>Instantly knew what the Garand was because as a small poor kid I had nothing much to do except study history.
>We ride in a beat up old Willys Jeep out to the most remote area of his property. Cuzzo and crazy uncle set up a mat and a spotter's scope on a hilltop about 400 yards from the treeline, where there's already a torso-sized steel plate.
>Cuzzo has me take a prone position on the mat, and then teaches me how to operate the safety on the Garand. Tells me I have a full clip loaded.
>I take my time before pulling the trigger, and as soon as I do I'm glad I'm prone. 12 yr old me was not a big dude, and with me being a weak scrub, it could have knocked me on my ass.
>But it didn't hurt, it felt REALLY good. So I fire again, and crazy great-uncle walks in my shots. On the 5th round, I ding steel. The 6th round is also followed by an audible ding. 7th round barely drops low.
>I never knew the fate of the 8th round, because when I fired, the glorious PING of American steel gave me the closest experience to an orgasm that a 12 year old can achieve. It also was loud enough that I didn't hear if the round hit the steel plate. I didn't care.
>My great-uncle urges me to NEVER tell my mother about it. But I wind up telling Grandpa, and I eventually told my mother. They stopped sheltering me.

>Be 14
>Visiting cousin
>He takes us to the range to try his Glock 22
>Some of his friends are there, and they let us shoot their guns as well
>All told I shoot a G22, 9mm P229, 12.5-inch AR, scoped .17 HMR, scoped .22, and a Benelli Supernova (with 3-inch slugs, ow)

>>30956915
Pellet Gun with my dad.

First real gun was way later. My dad got a few boxes 9mm from a friend (self loaded by an idiot, AKA random charges inside) and let me fire them at the range with his beretta.

He laughed while i was desperately trying to hit anything with the garbage-ammo.

First time shooting for me, I was 8 years old. My dad took me out into the woods with a shotgun he doesn't have anymore, and let me fire it by myself. Recoil instantly knocked menon my back and I loves every bit of it.

>>30957184
I remember almost nothing from scouts, which sucks because it is my favorite food I've ever eaten.

>receive break action pellet gun at age 5 from gramps
>my dad is a has guns so he kept it in his locker
>would take it with along when i tagged along with dad hunting

first actual gun i shot was a marlin bolt action .22 magnum.. then a .270, which my pops later sold. and bought a nice CZ varmint special in 22-250.

fast forward to today, I own a 10/22, 1951 Tula SKS,1934 Tula Nugget, Lithgow SMLE (1941), Norinco M305,Norinco 1911A1 and an NEA-15

yes Im a syrup fag

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>>30956915
>be me growing up in glorious 90's
>History Channel all day er'ry day son
>Civil War documentaries and WWII and nothing else
>step dad is fudd with .307 WIN durr rifle but takes notice of his sons interests
>Christmas '99
>Get Hawkins kit under tree
>WeJohnnyReb.jpg
>Spend January '00 building rifle in spare time after school
>Spring comes around, go into the backwoods and setup targets
>Given the final refresher on how to load and fire
>For atmosphere dad has pipes and drums on the CD player in the truck while he calls "Ready! Aim! Fire!"
>90 grains of sulfur, charcoal, and potassium is turned into a huge white cloud
>I got Billy Yank right in the chest

After that we started collecting WWII mil-surp and got a rifle from every army in the war. When I turned 18 I got an AR and as soon as he shot it he was Fudd no more.

>>30958785
this <3

>be me, 7 years old, shot a gun before i could ride a bike
>2002
>socal, near L.A. before most of the commie laws came up, still couldnt have 30rd mags tho, still did anyway fuck the cucks.
>Pops took me to the range, set me up with his little bolt .22 he got as a kid. Felt the connection to my pop and this gun immediately.
>was crack shot for a 7 year old, 10/10 every time at 120 yards with irons.
>I looked forward to going every time, cause he might let me shoot something bigger. (I was a small kid)
>I was a round 10, and he broke out an SKS.
>*jaw dropped*
>I didnt know dick about it at the time, but super well done, gorgeous tula, with a dark rose wood finish.
>shot the fuck out of it, and didnt care that it beat the hell out of me
>dad impressed
>Could never think of anything I wanted to do more than shoot guns since that time.
>I'm 21 now and have been buying and selling guns since I was 18 (private sale legal here in New Shmexico)
>Pops just turned 54, 3 days ago.
>Literally one of the only things we connect over is guns.
>If it weren't for guns, I don't know how close I would even be to my pops.

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>>30959665
>feels

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>taking summer college course in deep south
>spend whole week watching band of brothers
>recently decided childhood dream of being a soldier
>joins army rotc
>goes to gun range
>looks at the AR, handguns, MP5
>Sees M1 Carbine
>Thinks of my childhood airborne heroes
>"That one pls"
>go out to the range
>Smell of gunpowder changes my life
>Don't miss a single shot from 60 yards
>imanatural.jpeg
>enlists instead of waiting to finish school
feelsgoodman

>>30956915
I was 13 and I had been obsessed with the idea of shooting and while I didn't really know safety nothing went wrong that day (common sense does a lot for you)
Nothing special but we shot 3 guns. A glock in .40 (dont know the name) a mark2 ruger in .22lr and a 9mm taurus pt-99
I wasn't very accurate at all but it felt suprisingly natural to me. And it is damn fun.

>>30956915

>be maybe 10 years old?
>spending one of the many summer breaks I had during my childhood in Southeast Georgia
>spending the day at my Aunt and Uncle's
>find a magazine fed .177 CO2 air rifle in the shed
>uncle shows me how to load it and how to handle it safely
>shoot at squirrels and shit off and on during the summer at Grandma and Grandpa's

And the actual first time I fired an actual firearm

>be ????? years old
>back in Southeast Georgia during vacation with family
>out on the range in the sticks with family and other relatives
>fire some full power rifle cartridge from some bolt gun
>bullet goes low hits ground comes up underneath cardboard box I'm shooting at somehow, and exits other side of the box at an angle
>shit is jarring and kinda hurt my shoulder
>fire a 12 gauge
>nope

>>30956915
>be 17
>Couple weeks into basic training
>shoot m4
It was pretty fun. I also enjoy being in the national guard.

7th birthday, red rider lever action, 3000 bb milk carton,

>>30956915
So lemmie get this straight. Not all troops are day care for autistic children?

I've held, loaded and cleaned guns before but I haven't actually fired one yet.

25.
Got my license, an SKS, and a bunch of ammo. Went in the woods and shot at cardboard boxes with targets taped to them. It was fun.

>>30957531
>closest thing to an orgasm a 12 year old can have
>implying

>11 years old
>in the woods with a ruger 10/22 shooting at cans.

I only thought it was kinda cool because i was shooting paintball and BB guns before hand. I had alot more fun when i got my first shotgun though.

Be 6.
Dad takes me to his skeet club meet.

Pays me 5cents a hull to pick them up after matches.

Get to be the button monkey and launch the birds when they are called.
( get ripped $1 by each shooter and a soda)

After the meet. Dad has me try a youth 410 single shot.

Break my first bird on first try.

See dad tear up.


Go home.

>>30956915
I don't know how old I was, it was before I was in elementary school.

>Be small kid
>Dad rules, ex military super survivalist.
>Grow all our own food, living in the boonies.
>Pretty much the Waltons meets the A Team on our family farm.
>Dad has my brother and I shooting at a young age.
>I started off with the old BB gun, working my way to pellet guns.
>Dad brings out the legendary "cowboy gun"
>Puts Tarus .22 revolver in my hands
>Gets behind me, holding my hands and the gun at the same time.
>Shows me how to operate the firearm.
>has me check to see if unloaded, then has me put on a small belt and holster he made from leather.
>Put revolver in holster, essentially becoming a 3 foot tall Clint Eastwood.
>Has me set up some pop cans down range.
>Dad proudly stands beside me as I attempt to kill popcan injuns.
>After reloading like 2 times, finally figure out how to remove aluminum kebab.
>One of the few times my dad has said he's proud of me.

Good feels all around.

>>30959803
>that image
holy fuck

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>>30959665
>was crack shot for a 7 year old, 10/10 every time at 120 yards with irons
Dad and I used to buy a brick of .22lr a piece (back when it was $30 for 550) and go out every weekend early in the morning and shoot our 10/22s and bond. We did this until I graduated and moved out. I miss it. We would throw a golf ball out at 100yds and take turns hitting it.

>>30959677
Amen

>>30958785
>>30959665
>>30961918
>>30961949
I can relate to these Dad Feels.

>be like 14
>at the range with my dad and his old partner from when he was an LEO
>walks me through the controls of his old duty gun, Glock 19
>had an airshit 1911 at the time, knew proper stance, grip and such
>tells me to fire when ready at the silhouette target 10 yards away
>fire one mag, grouping was about hand sized, center mass
>reload
>Mozambique the target
>two dead center, other was right in the T-zone.
>continue to do so until mag is empty
>feel a hand on my shoulder, I look up and it's my dad, smiling, looking at the target.

felt good man

>>30956915
>be 12
>pester dad to teach me to shoot
>finally he has time off work
>go to range
>bring his old .357 and his 2 SIGs
>SIGs are DAO, don't like the heavy trigger pull with my weak 12 year old hands
>shoot revolver in single action
>love it

Few months later I was at that same range sighting in a 20 gauge for deer hunting. Fucking slugs bruised my shoulder.

>around 13-14 years old
>meet step dad
>he takes me and my brother shooting
>some romanian ak with folding stock
>shot off the branches of a tree because I was inaccurate
>loved every second of it

>>30956915

With my father. He started us really young with wooden toy rifles with a removable round. Basics, never sweep at anybody, safest direction, retention, etc. From there air rifle maybe 5-6 years old. From there handling cleaning, and stripping rifles same safety drill. Finally range at a local sand pit and old piggery. From there started with handling, stripping, cleaning single action .22 revolver. Basics early on in life are key. And yes I know they will fuck you up if you go into the service later and blah blah it is easier to teach someone with no firearms experience on but remember just listen to what the fuck they teach you and don't stand out.

Also my first shotgun was a Russian bolt action 12 gauge with a steel buttplate and three round mag.. I hated that thing.

RIP dad. Our salvation lies in us and us alone. There is only the light of man burning deep in the furnace of the heart.

>>30956915
Mine was similar to yours, but with a 12 ga shotgun. Goddamn, that was one of my best moments ever

First time shooting was with adopted father and foster father.
> be me, 11 years old
> visiting foster family in northern Brasil
> small town and villages scattered along the banks of the Amazon river.
> foster father is the town ophthalmologist
> makes good money so he lives in nice house on the outskirts of town.
> house surrounding property is fairly innawoods (or in this case, innajungle)
> while we eat lunch, he asks me if I like guns
> I say yes and get excited
> turns out he has a .22, and revolver, and a 12 gauge.
> he uses the 22 too shoot pesky animales that wonder onto his property.
> asks if I want to go shoot some "urubues" (vultures)
> yesyesyesyes.jpg
> supper excited, dad I kinda worried
> foster papai shows me 2 of them sitting in a tree
> line up the shot and take it
> miss
> one of them flies off
> other one has had his jimmies rustled so he is getting ready to depart
> right as he begins to flap upward, I take my next shot
> hear him screech as the bullet clips him in his left wing
> tragically spirals down to the jungle floor and lands in the bushes
> foster pai pats me on the back and congratulates me
> I'm ecstatic, until I see my dad
> he looks kinda upset
> ask him if he wants to try, he says no
> says he doesn't want to kill anything that wasn't an immediate threat. Said he didn't like me killing innocent animals.
> foster pai tells him that the vultures are pests and a nuisance anyhow.
> dad still looks disappointed and somber.
> foster pai decides to take my dad back to the house to lighten things up.
> tells me I can mess around with the gun as long as I don't load any bullets into the chamber
> tells me to watch for pests and other animals on the perimeter.
for the next few days, I spent whatever down time we had patrolling the property and pretending to get into shoot outs with robbers and a pack of onsas.
I loved the feeling of caring the rifle on my back, out on patrol, lookin for baddies.

>>30962964
Best feels Glockbro.

Another good one. I was 8 or so, I think.

>Be at grandpa's house.
>papaw was on the army rifle team after Korea.
>Old guy can still squeeze 1 MOA out of a shitty almost shot out nugget, even with cateracts.
>Dad busts out his new Enfield.
>Papaw gets an extreme nostalgia boner and gets his M1 out of the trusty gun cabinet he built.
>Grandpa and I stand and shoot at a couple of 100 yard targets out in the field.
>Gpa's group is about the size of my hand, mine is wayyyyyy worse.
>8 year old self gets discouraged.
>Gpa looks at me and says "What are you sad for? You killed the slant."
>Dad laughing comes over and shuts me up when I ask what a "Slant" is.

I need to go shooting with papaw again. Haven't been since I was 12 or so.

>>30957202
Euro?

>>30956915
I'm wearing Scout shorts right now.

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>>30959677
Heard dat
My turn.
>Be like 11-12
>Have Crossman air rifle already
>1st time shooting anything bigger than .22
>Dad's Marlin 12ga (30" barrel) in back yard
>Fuck yeah, country boy can survive
>Take aim at old, spare, metal door
>Boom
>Distinctly say "That's one way to deal with door-to-door salesmen
>Father visibly upset
>"Son, I am disappoint"
>Instills respect into me that day
>13th birthday
>Receive very own 870 Express
>Gart's Brothers, oldfag confirmed
>Pic related (500 Non-NFA cameo, as well)
>I'll love you forever, pre-Cerberus Remington

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>>30963156
Damn anon. That last paragraph is some heavy stuff brother. Godspeed.

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>>30963382
Embrace that time cuz. One day you won't be able to any longer.

>>30963784

I'm a womp. When our fathers pass away we keep them with the knowledge "They buried you in me". :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQyDGiyRPH8

>In a Enviromental leadership class in High School
>teacher brings in guy from Ministry of Natural Resources to talk about trees
>Guy is also member of local Rod & Gun club
>asks if he can take the class trap shooting
>teacher agrees, tells school we are going on a field trip
>Go to trap range
>Shoot a Winchester SXP
>Spend full school day at range
>Come home with a bruise on my shoulder and smile on my face

Should also mention that the Teacher was a super SJW as was most of the class but everyone enjoyed shooting

>>30956915
>dad owns store
>customers that are pretty good friends come in one day
>they show him pics on their phones of their 1911's
>one of them pipes up "hey wanna come shooting?"
>Me being a codfag, i pipe up and say "oh hell yea"
>we go to the gravel pit
>I remember it was a kimber, felt very good, even for my 11 year old hands
>"BOOM"
>oh damn this is awesome
>"BOOM"
>hey i hit the target
>"BOOMBOOMBOOM"
>hahahaha
>"BOOMBOOMBOOM"
>aww im empty

was amazing, I still have not bought a 1911 yet, but i'm planning on an SR1911

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>>30963814
Damn brother, maybe it is the whiskey but that is some feels right there.

First time was in 4th grade through my local 4H program. Had a shooting sports project .22 rifles and archery for the starters then skeet shooting and black powder rifle. Last thing that opened up to people about freshman year was .22 handgun. Kinda ran by fudds but they drilled basics and required a hunter safety/ shooting course before to even go to the range days. For 10 years my summer consisted of waking up at 6am on Saturday and go to the range and shoot till about noon or so. Got reserve grand champ in skeet shooting my second year. 20 now and I miss those days so much

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>>30963885

Love and light.

May the swamp rise to you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atuJzivuF1o

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>>30956915
>be me, 16
>invited to indoor range with church pastor
>nervous, only experience with guns was holding my dad's hunting shotgun when I was 10
>4 guns available: .357 Ruger, .44 Colt, 9mm Glock and vintage M1 carbine
>they give me the .357 to start with
>spend the rest of the day shooting bullseyes
That carbine was way smaller than I thought it'd be.

Pic very much related

>>30956915
>8
>visit family at the rez
>gotta get some buffalo meat for some shit later
>has to be a fresh kill
>medicine man uncle thinks it'll be a good learning experience
>whole four wheeler ride over he's talking about life and death and transitioning between the two
>can't hear shit over the fourwheeler
>finds this buffalo he had prepped earlier with blessings
>gets off the fourwheeler and starts chanting and praying
>bout to shoot the bastard after 20ish minutes of this
>has this bright idea of letting me shoot it
>probably figured he was being efficient and shoving as many lessons in as he could with me only having a summer to spend with the tribe
>helps me aim and everything which isn't hard being maybe 15 feet away
>pull the trigger
>blinding searing pain in my shoulder
>gotohappyplacegotohappyplacegotohappyplace
>slighty pissed i shot it in the face and not the heart but a quick kill is good either way
>pretty sure its shock but i just sort of emotionlessly sit there and help him skin it as best i can after he shows me how
>get back home with our first load
>didn't hear her coming up screaming but my grandmothers spazzing out over my obviously fucked shoulder thats swelling like a bastard
>hospital trip ensues
>clavicle is absolutely fucked to pieces
>perma deaf in right ear
>rez hospital so they just sort of bandage me up and give me a sling
>ask uncle to teach me to shoot shit that won't cripple my remaining arm the next day
>learn lefty shooting all summer
>get surgery to fix shit up when i get home
shoot righty to this day cause I don't have to worry about my right ear but if my shoulder acts up i switch over to lefty no problem.

Father questions me if i want a shooty stick. Reply with a yes and acquires 10/two-tee-two. The next day we travel to the forest and fire at brown terrain

>>30956915
ok

>be about 4-5 years old
>just hanging out with my dad one night while he talks on the phone/ smokes drinks.
>after a while my dad decides to pull out his muzzle loader and starts talking about gun safety, how it works ect
>loads it up with a primer and a little bit of powder and lets me pop one of in the garage at about 10pm
>fall in love instantly with firearms
>moms walks in and yells "STOP THAT"

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>be 11th birthday
>grandpa comes to my house and picks me up
>drive upstate jewyork
>eat pancakes at old diner
>has cabin upstate
>sets up targets
>shoot .22 rifle and pistol and .357 lever action
>eat burgers
>shit myself on way home because burgers made me sick
>mfw they only knew when i got home what that smell was

>>30964116
You look like a CNN News reporter trying to explain why guns are bad.

>>30956915
>NE PA scout camp
GPSR? They've got sitting rests now, but this could've been decades ago

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>>30956915
>19
>friend takes me to uncle's place
>fuckin redneck guy with fucking redneck wife and fuckin redneck daughter with her redneck boyfriend
>all are pretty chill
>kinda /pol/ tho
>anyways
>Dad whips out Remington 870 for me to try out
>fucking decimate plates at 90 yards
>get excited
>start shooting all over the fucking place in front of me
>pretty much destroy the guy's innawoods shooting range
>mfw

>>30957403
The xt-22 is awesome. I just bought one a few months back, now eagerly awaiting small game season.

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>be me
>turn 15
>family not into funs
>driving with my dad and see a shooting range
> ask about it and find out you can actually shoot funs
you can do that?!?! Jpeg
>go for my birthday
>use my first gun ar-15
>a love is born
>now I have my own and still want more

>>30958785
>pipes and drums on the CD player
my sides

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>>30964719
Great story anon

bb gun at 6 in cub scouts
.22 at around 10 also in cub scouts
12 guage at 16 in boy scouts
54r at 18 after first paycheck.

i only got to shoot at scouts, my parents are ok with guns (father owns a bunch, but kept them hidden until I turned 19 or so and asked about them, still not sure what all he has.), but they didnt want me having any as a kid since we lived in town and I would have probably shot the neighbors cats or something. I did get some airsoft pistols though, made great film props for school projects.

>grow up in anti-fun family
>watch tales of the gun on the history channel
>play tons of video games like Medal of Honor and Counterstrike
>love watching the reloading ammunitions
>play Rainbow Six Rogue Spear (remake WHEN?)
>Read every piece of fluff text on ever gun
>get into Military stuff and watch more History channel stuff
>talk to Uncle who has guns and he shows me his M1 Carbine, stare in admiration
>go to libshit campus
>surrounded by liberals (I'm liberal myself except on this issue)
>be 25
>fuck why haven't I actually shot a gun yet
>grab a willing roomate and head to a range.
>fire Glock, have a blast
>go back a few days later
>try out 1911, love it even more
>friend takes me out to his farm and try out his rifles. Shoot for 7 hours and fall in love with it
>finally buy myself a rifle inspite of all my liberal friends and family freaking out
>will buy more, fuck what they think.

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Newfeg here.

>Be last September
>Be frequently bored 17-year-old
>Dad wants me to come with him to the gun club/range he's part of for their junior (read: 18 and under) marksmanship program
>Say sure, have always been interested in shooting
>We arrive, the place is pretty fudd-ish (rural town, not surprised)
>Handed a laser rifle, told to aim at a tiny mark on the wall and get it as close as possible
>Hit it just about right on
>Guy teaching me is impressed, has me gather a single shot .22
>Take it into the range and get set up
>Work dat bolt and use the 15 rounds I was given, as instructed
>Smell the burnt powder
>Easily one of my favorite smells now
>Show them my target, as I was asked to
>They start talking quietly to each other
>Apparently most newbies don't get all their shots in the black
>Be surprised that I'm any good, do it again
>My next group is even tighter

From then on until just about winter when I stopped going to focus on college stuff, I was judged to have serious natural talent. I haven't shot since then, but I want to and I'm trying to think of ways to convince my parents that it's a good idea for me to have a firearm of my own. Dad has a SIG P220, never been with him for that. Shouldn't be THAT hard, because both of them acknowledge that I'm not a retarded fuck when it comes to gun safety and that I'm a good shot. That being said, mom's not that thrilled every time I bring it up. Probably just run-of-the-mill parental concern.

As for first gun ideas, I'd like to get something larger and more fun than just .22 that I can plink with reliably. Any suggestions? Currently considering either an SKS, Mosin, or Mossberg 590. (Leaning toward the 590 right now).

>>30956915
45acp S&W and a bolt action .22 at age 10

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>be ausfag
>be 6
> live in suburbs so not many guns
>new years eve and theres a party at my bestfriends house
>me and his family just there
>almost 12 fireworks are roaring
>go outside and his dads shooting an illegal pellet gun with his older son
>freakout because im really excited
>shoot 3 pellets
>best feeling of my life

My first ever real gun was a 45-70 on a benchrest, felt breddy guud

>>30967208
What's your budget? Are you just plinking, or are you going to use it for something else?

>>30956915
I was about 12 or 13, on holiday visiting family in a tiny village in France. There was a fair there with the usual fairground crap. I was bored but my younger brother was enjoying himself so I hung around. Then my day pointed to a stall in the corner that had a tiny rifle range in it. I'd shot air rifles and was interested in guns so I jumped at it, threw down €5 and was handed a single shot bolt action rifle and 5 .22 shorts. I got a ~1cm group at from about six feet. Still got one of the casings somewhere.
I didn't shoot again until I was 20 and joined a shooting club because britbong. I'll never forget my first time shooting. I remember it more clearly than losing my virginity.

6 yrs old.

Dad's friend handed me a German Mauser K91 told me to go to town. Immediately in love with guns and shooting.

Great Grandfather let me shoot his entire arsenal by the time I was 8.

I think first was his .22 at 6 or 7 though.

Was shooting his DB Shotgun and 30/30 by 8 years old for sure though

>>30968997
Likely going to simply plink, maybe someday go boar hunting. (They're a problem up here).

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>>30967208
buy a complete upper, stripped lower, and lower parts kit, psa has great deals and quality products, you can easily get an ar for between $500-$600
.223/5.56 is reasonably cheap and extremely plentiful, and can be easily used for boar and just plinking, and the amount of ways to set up an ar is damn near limitless

>>30970339
I'd recommend the SKS, then. 7.62x39 is good for boar and is cheap for plinking. Please don't bubba it if you get a nice one.

I recommend picking some of this up: https://www.classicfirearms.com/yugo-igman-m67-762x39-ammo-40-round-box
Yugo strippers are generally the best, plus you get some ammo, too. Remember to clean your rifle because this is corrosive. I bought 5 of these just for the stripper clips. Of course these are optional, but they sure help.

If you decide to get optics, this is the only acceptable mount IMO: http://scoutscopes.com/t/sks-systems

Very stable and you can still field strip without loss of zero. Just make sure you get an extended eye relief scope if you want to go magnified. Vortex makes a nice Crossfire one for not too much.

>>30970685
>putting a scope on a SKS

>>30970696
Not my issue if someone else wants to. I have one of those mounts and a MD-ADS on it, and I have had no issues. Fighting with the rear sight leaf spring is a bitch, though, but I did it.

>inb4 chesnokovposting

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Old Browning lever-action .22 when I was five. Was one of my dad's first guns. Hits dead-on. He sighted it in before I was born and hasn't adjusted by so much as a fly's ass hair since.

Shot an 870 when I was six or seven. The prick told me to always make sure there was an inch of space between my shoulder and the butt plate.

Miss you, dad.

I will let you know when I am has guns. Until late thin I'll shit up /k like any other poster/trip

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>>30956915
> Be 10 years old
> Be with my girlfriend and her dad for the weekend
> My parents were divorcing
> Loved guns a lot and this adventure sealed the deal
> Go inna dead river bed/forest area
> Say clip and get schooled by girlfriend
> Shot her dads AK/AR/pistols/ and nugget
> Girlfriend asks if I want to shoot the .50BMG
> a bit scared but don't want to say no to an opportunity to shoot this beast
> Shoot it and get knocked on my ass
> Brass also hit my face and I screamed I was shot
> Her dad is laughing his ass off and said "Anon if you were shot by this you would be Gook mist"
> Fast Foward 15 years
> Were still friends and I out shoot her were not married =/ shes a single mom now

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>>30970842
>10
>girlfriend
Did she, or 'her' dad touch you, anon ?

>>30970842
>shes a single mom now
at least the kid isn't a nigger, right?

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>>30970664
>ARs
>New York

I would, but the resulting sadness of having an autistic-looking gun would make me sad more frequently than I'd like to be.

>>30970685

I figured it'd be good to get an SKS, seen a few for around 400 bucks. I'd most likely drop the extra couple dollars on Tula ammo just to avoid corrosiveness. (And I'd never dream of fudding out such a glorious rifle.)

P.S. Budget's probably gonna cap out around 400, I've never had more than that spent on me for birthday gifts

>>30957202
Cuck country?

I don't remember really. Earliest I can remember is a .22 and a .357 at 8 or 9 with my grandpa. fired those a again a year or two later along with a browning HP. another 2 years or so later an AR, SKS, 1911, Makarov, and some 12 gauge thing my grandpa fired at cowboy shooting comps.

>>30956915
Scouts, fired .22s, shotguns and black powder muskets, holy fuck did I love those muskets. Now I bought one of my own and do a little pheasant hunting on the weekends, one of my favorite pastimes.

>Be Canadian
>complete CFSC and get licence.
>instructor, grizzled former military and RCMP offers to take anyone from the class to major local military range to shoot.

>Next day
>Only brother and I turn up
>instructor sighs
>hands brother .308 target rifle
>hands me literal milking pail full of Military produced 7.62x51mm

>spend the next three hours with brother firing at 500m range complete with scorer and target keeper.

>didn't pay a cent

Good times.

>>30966533
Wow you're an asshole

>>30962936
Kek I will live forever now that my face is a reaction image

>>30956915
>be 10 years old me
>love military history
>dad says I'm old enough to learn about real guns
>has me demonstrate basic rules with a toy
>shows me Ruger single six revolver, western auto 22 lever action, and western auto 12g
>takes me to the range that weekend
>middle of range session
>dad takes me in the store and picks out a 10/22 and scope, buys it, gives it to me
>back to shooting
>back home and clean it
>take care of it son, it's your first rifle

He also eventually bought me an m1 carbine, but he probably won't ever give it up. I helped him put together his first AR last year.

>>30974802
Make that man your friend.

>12
>Mexican family ranch
>Grandad and his brother give me a stevens 20g double barrel
>Mom goes full soccermom but we ignore her family tells her to go back to cook a rabbit
>Shot it, manage to hold recoil because we spent literally 30 minutes in how to hold a gun correctly
>Keep shooting cans like a kid opening gifts in christmas
>Shoulder hurted a lot but didnt say anything because my mother would go full soccermom on me

I miss my grandfather, i still have 5 rounds left of that day.

>>30956915
Must have been...5 maybe? 6? Something like that. I started shooting tin cans on a stump from my folk's back deck with a bolot action .22. By the time I was 10 I was shooting .243 and .30-06. Based Alaska upbringing.

>>30966451
OP here.
Resica Falls

>>30959803
>that image
this is fucking legendary

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>>30956915
>grew up in Texas
>republican family
>tfw shooting so long I can't remember the first time.

>>30959803
That image. Did this really happen?

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>>30956915
>be 15yo
>in noguns cuntry
>"military club" in high school
>live-firing sar-21 after 2years of toy gun training
Thisisit.jpg
>bangbang lol 5.56
>gets marksman
Pic related its my marksman badge.
feels good man.

>>30956915
>be aussie 7 yr old
>army officer dad
>shown the parts of an M-16 and the Armalite AR
>this is the trigger guard etc
>shown manual of arms by soldier at open day
>show friends at school so when we play guns with sticks we hold them properly and look deadly
>at 10, allowed to fire .222 with extreme close supervision, targets out in the country
>at 14 as cadet at school, semi auto .22 for range
>go on cadet bivouac
>bunch of fuckin virgin highschoolers dressed as soldiers
>briefed on sneaker range
>waiting for my turn, sergeant, 12th grader talking about how he's a survivalist, loyalist, keeps a gun in his house to kill burglars
>his turn on the range
>we're told to walk through and when we see a target pop out to raise the rifle aim and fire 2 rounds
>we hear him firing 1, 3 and 4 shots at intervals
>laughing
>my turn
>do what i'm told, walk ahead of the instructor, hit each target twice and empty the remainder of ammo into last target that runs staright at you on a string
>equal 2nd out of whole three-school group, about 600 kids
>feels pretty good
Doesn't matter what you know or what you own, if you have a cool head and a steady hand you're more dangerous than the other end of the range.

first was akm in 7.62, rusty af but still felt so good
second 16 ga

>>30979983
gun stories
>be so young i don't know how old
>dad and army mates talking over beers
>they laugh whenever someone says they shot a gun
>"I've never shot a gun, fired a few though."
Manly_laughing.jpg
>Puckapunyal firing range
>younger brother and i asked if we want to stand in the butts under the targets
>automatic gunfire, thundering, slamming into the targets like factory machines gone crazy
>brother and i standing around bored, we've heard 21 gun salutes as toddlers
>notice dad trying to hide how happy he is
>years later told the soldiers knew an officer's sons were there and to scare the shit out of us with the fury
and same range couple years later
>army marksman gets 100% over about 7 minutes
>dad being an A-type alpha bastard has a go
>fires all his rounds quickly but coldly in about half a minute
>marksman says 70%, ehh
>dad says "I'm training for a two way range."
>marksman blushes, i feel a little bad for him.
not much tho, army dad has some epic upsides.

>seven years old
>been shooting/sitting with my dad while he hunts
>grandpa and dad bought me a .22 buckmark
>let me shoot whenever I want
And that started my handgun obsession, but burning shotgun powder is my favorite smell.

>be 14
>middle of literally nowhere, virginia
>we were visiting our yesguns uncle
>eventually work up courage to ask if i could shoot some of his funs
>'sure'
>get to shoot great grandpa's 1911 from WWII
>end up firing about 200ish rounds of .45
>we have a fun time and leave a few days later

i have a M870 now, but planning to maybe get a 10/22 later