How old were you?

[v-rog]

How old were you when you shot your first gun and who introduced you to it? What was it?

I was around 12 y/o when my jr high friend, Parker, introduced me to his dad's 1911 A1. Shot a mag's worth of .45.

[marinemom]

hello there.. I'm quite new .. CHL holder for 2 weeks.. don't even own a gun yet

shot my first gun about a month ago, age 45... 3 days before my CHL class ,
it was my hubby who introduced me, I shot his Bersa Thunder 380..
did quite well on the test

marinemom..
Semper Fi

[thatTexasLady]

I was little, probably 6 or 7. My dad was LEO and took us to the range to teach us respect for firearms since we would have them in the house. We shot a pellet gun at first and then his pistol. It was not easy but it got rid of the curiosity so anytime we saw it it was, "Oh, that's just Daddy's gun." No big deal. We thought everybody's dad had a gun on their hip.

[AEA]

As like most, started out with a BB gun around 7 or so and rapidly advanced to a pellet gun.

Dad bought me a surplus .303 Lee Enfield around 12 and we went to the range for me to learn how to use it. About the same age he took me Deer hunting.

He and I were hunting and I was about to cross a creek with hills on both sides. I was watching the hill in front of me (covered in trees & brush) when I saw a deer thru a slight clearing on the hill moving down towards me.

I dropped behind a downed tree and lined up my sights, clicked off the safety and by the time I was ready, the Deer had passed the clearing and was back in the brush, no longer visible. I was so disappointed that I had not moved and was still lined up on the clearing with safety off when........
I saw another deer passing thru the clearing and all I had to do was pull the trigger, which I did. It was about a 100yd shot.

Got me a 4 point Buck (Texas size). Thinking later, me and my Dad figured the first one was a Doe leading the Buck down.

That was my first and last Deer hunting trip. The sight of what I had done, the dead Deer laying there, put me off from Deer hunting ever again.

[texanron]

I was around 6 or 7 yeras old when my dad let me shoot his single action .22 revolver.

[Keith B]

Dad was an NRA Hunter Safety Instructor so always had guns around the house. I started with a BB gun at age 5 and then on to .22 at age 7. Started shooting in a Junior Rifle team that was sponsored by the City Police Department at age 8, then on to NRA Junior Smallbore rifle team at age 12.

[Skiprr]

I was around 6 or 7 years old when my dad let me shoot his single action .22 revolver.

Same. I'm pretty sure I was seven...I remember because the War of 1812 had just started.

[Tallinthesaddle]

About 7, shooting with dad at the farm. think it was a pump action Winchester .22.

[chasfm11]

I was 10 and my granddad taught me to shoot a bolt action .22 rifle. I hunted with shotguns for a few years until I was in high school. I bought my first pistol in 1981, a Hi Standard Trophy .22 that I still have. My first larger caliber handgun didn't come until last year, just before my CHL class.

[boomstick]

I was 7 years old and my father took me out in the woods to shoot tin cans with my grandfather's .22 bolt action rifle. I have taken all three of my sons out to shoot for the first time on their 7th birthday as a rite of passage.

[Blindref757]

BB gun at age 5...but that isn't really a firearm. First firearm was at age 6...my pappy took me out to shoot his .410 at some cans. Pulled the trigger...and saw the cans falling over as I hit the ground!

Cool thing is that my pappy passed away in 1994 and my dad gave me that old .410 for Christmas last year!

[threoh8]

I don't remember specifically, but I must have been about 5. I was not in school yet. Dad made it a treat to go with him, even before we were allowed to shoot. The first firearm was almost certainly his old Remington single-shot bolt-action .22 rifle.

[MoJo]

5 or 6 a single shot .22 rifle then, about age 8 a 1903 Springfield .30-06!

[couzin]

6yo (1955) in an NRA/Cub Scout safety course (.22). By 1957 I was 'competing' against adults at club turkey shoots - won a couple turkeys and hams too (or maybe they just felt sorry for me...).