Your shooting background

[S&Wshooter]

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

[ManiacallyChallenged]

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.

[Excalibur]

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.

[S&Wshooter]

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

[Nyles]

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.

[FirearmFan]

Started shooting .22's at about 5. Got a left handed bolt action Savage .22 when I was 7. Started hunting a few years later. I haven't looked back since. I was always into pistols but I didnt start shooting them frequently until about 16. Now at 23 I have a pretty decent collection and variety and I've been carrying since I turned 21.

[Excalibur]

My college has a pistol and rifle club, but it only allows .22LR firearms. It was never clear why we can't have higher caliber. I know the shooting range could handle bigger bullets than .22LRs. The club have a bunch of Ruger 10/22 rifles in semi and in bolt action. They also have one shot rifles as well and a bunch of pistols.

[Yournamehere]

I fell into the whole gun thing after watching a bunch of gun-movies and playing CounterStrike, no joke. My family had a bit of a gun background but never influenced me as they thought that guns and kids were a bad combination, though they shot and owned them. I spent every day lurking forums and gunbroker learning about guns, and saving what money I could to buy my own, along with begging for them as christmas gifts. Over the course of the last 4 or 5 years I've done a lot of research and a bit of collecting and I'd like to think it shows, especially seeing as how it came from nothing. No hunting, not competition, no young shooting, no family members, nothing. It sucks because if you don't have any "excuse" for it, most people think you are just creepy, violent, or insane. All the same I'm proud of what I know and that I have a hobby which I enjoy.