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How many years of shooting experience do you have?

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How many years of shooting experience do you have?

If you are a pro, you can select both, "I am a pro and the number of years".

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Lee
 
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I've been shooting off and on for a lot of years...
And I can spot a bargain when I see one...
My 9VE was a bargain....

Dependable... USA Made... S&W Lifetime Warranty...
 
While I do not consider myself to be a pro----i only marked "20 years+"
However I am 73 years old and have been shooting handguns since I
was 20 years old. I have been in armed security work and later retired
as a deputy sheriff in my later years. I have learned alot in 53 years
about handguns and believe me I AM STILL LEARNING. The one fact
that is abundantly clear to me about handguns is----that there is a huge amount of HYPE(or to put it more bluntly bullsnot) about handguns in general. The advertising meadia has brainwashed alot of
us shooters and gun buyers into the falshood that "this gun" or "that gun" is a peice of crap and you can't shoot it well because "this" or "that" is not as good as it is on another type or brand of gun.(especially trigger characteristics) When I first learned to shoot, my
Dad preached to me that I had to LEARN how to control the trigger
before I would ever be able to shoot any particular gun.

My other mentor in later life after Dad passed away has been Jerry Miculek in his revolver mastery. If you have ever watched Jerry shoot
you will be convinced that you can learn the trigger of the Sigma. The
point of all this rambling is that you have to practice and practice-----the gun will not magicaly "do" it for you.
 
I'm not sure how to answer this one.. so I didn't yet.

Since this is in the Sigma section, my first thought was the question was on handgun shooting experience. In my case it would be almost five years. If you mean shooting in general, then I have twenty years of experience since my dad had a .22 rifle in my hands by the time I was five.

Also, I really learned to shoot handguns in the Air Force. I qualified as small arms expert with the M9 as well as the M16, but I don't know if that's what you consider as the "military" option.
 
Thanks, total shooting experience counts, even rifles. Count up all of your years of experience.

Sure, small arms expert in the military can qualify as a pro if you call it that way. Thanks for your service.

Go Air force!

Lee
 
I thought you were going to ask the age of Sigma owners. I was thinking, geez I hope there is a bunch of people younger than me this time so I wont be the "baby" of this thread lol

I've been shooting for about 3-4 years (I voted wrong)
 
Marcus, if you're anything younger than 55, I'll be happy to trade age with you! LOL!:)

Lee

P.S. Just a reminder to all: if you vote pro, you can also vote for the number of years, but you have to check both before you cast the vote.
 
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Kapuna said:
I've been shooting off and on for a lot of years...
And I can spot a bargain when I see one...
My 9VE was a bargain....

Dependable... USA Made... S&W Lifetime Warranty...
Click to expand...

That about sums it up for me. I've owned Smith & Wesson, Glock, XD, CZ, Ruger, Taurus, Dan Wesson, Colt, Makarov, Hi-Point, Kel-Tec, Bersa, and probably some others I can't think of off the top of my head. And those are just handguns.

I'm just as pleased with the Sigma as any.
 
Though I've been shooting a Gamo Shadow airgun for a few years, the 9VE my wife got me for Christmas is my first "bang" gun, so I'm counting myself as a noob.
 
Started shooting my Daisy and a Glenfield bolt action 22 (with Dads help) at the tender age of nine or ten, first hunters safety course at 12, Joined the Navy in 1983 and qualifed expert with 9mm and M16 a few years later, shot top of the class at "Armed Sentry Course" as a Chief in 2004, and try to learn something new every time I shoot or when watching others. Sometimes I learn some new techniques, sometimes I learn something I never wanna do accidently or on purpose. I guess that puts me in the 20+ maybe semi-pro catagory.
 
It's kinda fun see the oldies like me posting. While we have a lifetime with firearm experience and prolly should consider ourselves pro's.... We are old school, and figure the pro's are the ones before us and gone to a better place?

I'm glad I'm not the only one willing to deal with the puter and cyber space. Most new gadgets don't appeal at all, however this ride is kinda fun....sorry to ramble...good old folks don't tolerate wimps.
 
I have been shooting for over 40 years. Most of my early experience was with revolvers; therefore the Sigma trigger was natural for me. I have smoothed mine but have not removed or modified any springs. To tell you the truth I feel more secure with either of my Sigmas (SW9VE, SW40VE) than my Glocks, Colts, or KelTecs for home protection because of the trigger.
 
I guess I would be in the 10 to 20 range. I started when I was younger with a Remington .22 LR with my dad. Then a .22 pistol and then didn't shoot anything for a while. And now I'm getting into it again with this Sigma.
 
Daisy at 10, 22 bolt action at 16 and got my carry permit about 1973. Not an avid shooter, get to the range occaisionally. Both my wife and I carry Sigma's. We find them safe, accurate, reliable and may be the best self defense weapon on the market. Darn cheap as well. I'm waiting for a "45VE"!
 
Way back when (1967: sophomore year is HS) we used to save up our hard-earned dough and reload all the Arisaka (Type 99 7.7mm) brass we could get our hands on, compile our boxes and bags of 22lr, a couple boxes of .38 Specials (just not many 9mm's available to us, back then: I had an acquaintance whose Dad brought back a Luger & a P-38 but we only got to shoot those once), a box of 30/30, maybe and go shootin'!

Nobody thought it unusual to see a carload of teenagers filling a trunk with rifles, boxes, cans and bottles and heading out into "the country". That's where you went: out to somebody's cousin's farm where, with permission, we used to make a lot of noise and have a lot of fun.

Unsupervised, of course. What was the point if you were responsible?

Now-a-days, just IMAGINE! Probably make the front page of the newspaper...

Cheers!
 
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Yep, ain't it the truth. We all had guns in our cars at school for after school hunting. Some guys even did a little hunting before school started in the morning, keeping the dressed small game in a cooler on ice. We had respect for the rights back then!

spricks
 
My first firearm was a pre-10 dating from just after WWII. I bought it in early 1992.

Been a shooter ever since.
 
Remember back in the 50's? (Pennsylvania) We would get on the school bus with the single-shot 12 gauge and a pocket full of shells. Put 'em in the locker with all the other junk. (Locks?? Heck NO. What for?)

After school, pin a red bandanna on our backs and the huinting license on top, and walk home across the fields and gather a few rabbits or a ringneck for tomorrow's supper.

Do that today, and we'd NEVER ever see the light of day! And the nervous nellies would be in such a tizzy they might never ever recover.


First 22 A Christmas gift at 12 yrs old, and on from there. (It was later used for shooting rats in the city dump with a flashlight taped to the barrel when I should have been studying for the chem exam)

But it helped having a good coach when I got serious about Bullseye. No substitute for a good teacher, and Mel Swerdloff was one good one.

But as has been said here, before: learn each gun and how it works, practice enough with it that you know what to expect and that you can use it as it ought to be.

Flash
 
Well I'm almost 50, Dad took me squirrel hunting when I was 5 and I shot my first squirrel that day, with a 410 H+R. When I was 9 he gave me a Colt Woodsman. I got my license to carry when I was 18 and a few years later I got my FFL.

I don't have a Sigma right now, but have had several in the past. Seriously thinking of getting one real soon. I did pick up an M+P 40 and an HK USP 40 last week. Don't know if I'll get the Sigma in 9 or 40.:cool:
 
This year will make 44 years of shooting. Fired expert with the M-14, and 1911 in the Marine Corps, but I do not consider myself a pro, just awfully dang good.
 
Hey, I've been looking around here in the sigma area for about 2 weeks. I've mainly been in the 15-22 part for the past few months. I turn 21 in less than 2 weeks and as a gift to myself, Im going to buy a Sigma 9ve. And if I can find one around here, it will be the Allied Forces version. I was reading the stories of how it used to be where you could bring your guns and a pocket full of ammo to school and go straight to shooting afterwards and it amazes me. I wish it was like that now, but no. Anyways, I've read a lot about the Sigma and mostly whining about the trigger. But not so much here. I want to thank everyone here for helping me decide to get this gun. When I do get it, I will tell you how much I love it. Thanks

David
 
Me? Almost 60 and been shooting since I was knee high to a grasshopper. Handgun and rifle both, expert with M-14 and M-16. Basic training with M-14, go to Viet-Nam and they had me a M-16:eek:? WHAT? I don't want this p.o.c. Thank goodness I was a REMF and didn't have to shoot the sucker:D:D
 
I have been shooting for 38 years. My Dad was a Army Sharpshooter and he and my WW2 Grandfather taught me to shoot. Took Shooting in ROTC in College , made top marksman for my unit.
 
What is a Sigma? Is that a new S&W revolver? No... forget it then.
 
Have been shooting since 1967, when I was eight. Owned many handguns and rifles. Shot skeet in my 20's, now mainly handguns and my beloved AKM. On the Sigma, I've owned a brand new Allied Forces 9VE(loved it but had too many 9mms) and currently own a used Sigma 9F and a used 40VE. Best handgun I've ever owned is my S&W Model 639. The best gun I've ever owned for the money is the 40VE. I genuinely believe the Sigma series to have been the best value in a handgun I ever remember. The only company that can come close in value for money to the Sigma is Ruger.
 
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