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02-07-2010, 08:33 PM
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Your shooting background
I know people who have grown up hunting and shooting at an early age. I know people who start later in life. I almost never shot, family doesn't like gns but I always had a fascination with them, shot a couple times with 22s in boy scouts when i was too young to remember. Then I shot in basic with the p229 DAKs, came home, now 18, and got an 870 and savage 22. Shoot with friends all the time. So I basically had to wait till age 18. Some of my friends on the other hand have been shooting since age 8 with 410s and 22s. When and how did yo start shooting?
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02-07-2010, 08:42 PM
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At age 7 when my family moved from Kentucky (where there are only white people for as far as the eye can see) and I was given a single barrel .410 (the same one seen in Napolean Dynamite!) and a Browning .22 semi-auto rifle http://store.valueweb.com/vintagepap...alog/AB015.jpg
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02-07-2010, 09:00 PM
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I've been around guns my whole life, and I figure the best way to instill good safety habits is to start teaching the child early in life
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02-07-2010, 10:51 PM
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02-08-2010, 12:26 AM
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When I was living in Kentucky, we had an unlocked closet full of guns that was situated where no one really paid attention to it. I could have went in there and messed with them at any time, but even as a very young child I knew better
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02-08-2010, 03:25 AM
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Children with guns don't kill people, ignorant children with guns kill people.
Teach! Impart! Etc! None of my family owns or shoots, so I mostly did stuff with my uncle. I never got a chance to fire his AK 47 civilian model before he sold it, more's the pity.
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02-08-2010, 03:48 AM
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My first hunting trip was when I was 11. A friend of the family took me to some woods a couple hours away. That's where I first fired a Remington shotgun. I forgot which type. Every so often, my uncle would ask me to join him hunting for deer.
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02-08-2010, 04:11 AM
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I try to hunt as often as I can. I'm really lucky though so I don't get to go as much as I would like because I'd kill my limit the first week of the season if I did (for the last 2 years I have killed something on my first hunt of the season). This year I almost couldn't go opening weekend because of a pinched nerve in my lower back/ hip area (I couldn't even really stand without tremendous pain/effort), but I swallowed some ibuprofen, grabbed my Winchester 88 and liquified ever single one of a buck's organs at a hundred yards. The pinched nerve still rears it's ugly head every now and again, and it hurts like a motherfucker, but I endure the pain until it passes
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02-08-2010, 04:57 AM
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Learned to shoot in the cadets at 13 - first with the Daisy 853 air rifle then the old Lee-Enfield No.7 .22. Shot competetively from then until I was 17. Bought my first rifle at 15. Shot extensively before I joined the army at 19.
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