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spanner1751

Re: How old were you when you started shooting?
« Reply #20 on: May 17, 2013, 12:17:19 AM »
Quote from: Volcano on May 16, 2013, 09:35:59 PM
Spanner is that pic black and white?  wow

Yep, B&W. Taken sometime in the late-1950's.
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spanner1751

Re: How old were you when you started shooting?
« Reply #21 on: May 17, 2013, 12:19:16 AM »
Quote from: imanley on May 16, 2013, 09:10:30 PM
That is an awesome pic!

Thanks. Mom, at 92, still talks to me about the times that dad took me shooting in the woods.
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GunFu

Re: How old were you when you started shooting?
« Reply #22 on: May 17, 2013, 02:16:51 AM »
I started when I was about 6 years old or probably younger, my Dad taught me. It's a pity he passed away 2 years after that :(
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Bunker

Re: How old were you when you started shooting?
« Reply #23 on: May 17, 2013, 08:02:41 AM »
Quote from: spanner1751 on May 17, 2013, 12:17:19 AM
Yep, B&W. Taken sometime in the late-1950's.
Great pic! :thumbsup:
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Volcano

Re: How old were you when you started shooting?
« Reply #24 on: May 17, 2013, 09:15:56 AM »
gotta start looking for my old pics shooting, dont even know where to start.  Nice pic though, good memories of fun times. :shaka:
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michalebsdad

Re: How old were you when you started shooting?
« Reply #25 on: May 17, 2013, 03:49:00 PM »
Quote from: SpeedTek on May 16, 2013, 10:22:15 PM
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Mom came home one day and gave me her weapons cache....

Mom was on the Punahou Rifle Team back in '56

Her words were: "Don't shoot anybody!"

THANKS MOM!

Sometimes my mom would drop me off at the rifle range and I would hang out there 8-5pm
All the older guys taught me all kinds of things!

At 10 I got to hang around a family friend who was a Gunsmith on weekends.

Learned a lot!

 :thumbsup:
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USAFSSgt

Re: How old were you when you started shooting?
« Reply #26 on: May 18, 2013, 03:51:02 PM »
Shot my first super-soaker at age 5 and my first nerf dart gun at age 8.

But seriously, shot for the first time at age 15. It was a Taurus PT92.
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Inspector

Re: How old were you when you started shooting?
« Reply #27 on: May 19, 2013, 07:43:15 PM »
I was 8 when I shot my first gun. It was an old 1911 my father bought after the Watts Riots. A little too big for me at the time. And too much for him cuz he traded/sold it for a 9mm. After that it was the 9mm and a .22 pistol for a year before I joined the NRA Junior Program. I shot .22 bolt action single shot rifles that were not mine until I was able to save up for my own when I was 12. Shot my first match at 12
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fstbckgt

Re: How old were you when you started shooting?
« Reply #28 on: May 19, 2013, 10:37:07 PM »
When I was 8 or 9 my father bought me a Savage 64 and a single shot 20 gauge, needless to say it was the best Christmas I ever had. A couple years later he bought me a Ruger P85 for my first pistol.
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