Same here. Nobody in my family went shooting, though a couple of them owned shotguns and .22 rifles.rotor wrote:Nobody in my family. The Cub Scouts got me started. I don't know if they still do that but it was a one week camp as a Cub Scout.
We had a Cub Scout outing where we each got to shoot 5 rounds out of some single-action .22 rifles. I loved it. Then one of the scout leaders took a little Browning .22 semi-auto rifle out of his vehicle and let another scout leader shoot it.
That little Browning .22 was the prettiest thing this 9 year old had ever seen, and I told myself then that I would own one someday.
I had to wait until I got out of the Navy some 14 years later, but a Browning .22 was the first (of many) firearms I bought myself.
I still have it, and still think it's one of the prettiest firearms ever made.