What did you use to learn to shoot?

[meaneyedcatz]

My father and grandfather taught me on an old Stevens 22 cal single shot bolt action.
Thanks grandpa and dad, I miss you both.

 

[hittman77]

A Ruger Single Six, 5.5" barrel for handgun, 10/22 rifle.

 

[Jimmyjones]

A Red Rider, a Springfield 1903 in .22 and a Czech .177 target pistol, 50 years ago.

Taught my kids with a Crosman 760 and a Beretta 950 (.25).

 

[P&R Fan]

I got a Sprinfield M53A when I was four. It was my Maternal Grandfather's. Single-shot .22.
Still have it in my safe. It's probably worth about $150.
For me.......it's priceless.
Jim

 

[kamloops67]

nylon 66 and a hy hunter frontier saa copy. many gophers lost their lives in the making of this shooter

 

[crsides]

BB gun. I knew the windage and holdover for that baby. Use to shoot pecans off the trees in the back yard. Then read about aerial shooting and spent many hrs throwing up tin cans, working my way down to dimes. Never could hit those aspirin tablets like the 8 yr olds in the magazine articles.

Charlie

 

[chuckster57]

My father and grandfather taught me on an old Stevens 22 cal single shot bolt action.
Thanks grandpa and dad, I miss you both.

YUP!! I loved that thing. And after us kids were done, gramps would sit in his HUGE bamboo rocker and shoot the 45-70. Dad would catch it as the chair rocked back.... those were the days. When I was hired by CDC in 1984, I had to qualify with a model 19 strong and weak handed, a Ruger mini 14, and a Remington 870.

 

[finesse_r]

Colt 1911 in .45ACP and double barrel 12 gage. I was 11/12 years old at the time. It was the only two guns our family owned then.

 

[BaldEagle1313]

For rifle, whatever it was at Boy Scout summer camp. .22 LR, goes without saying. Learned more about the safety aspects than really how to shoot well. They tried, but I wasn't the best rifle shot with open sights. Target was too far away for Mr. Nearsighted.

Handgun was a Model 28-2, when hired by a security firm for alarm response.

 

[alwslate]

Learned on BB guns and then got my first real gun, a Stevens single
shot bolt action 22 which I still have.

 

[feralmerril]

Dad taught me with this, his winchester model 61 octogon barrel .22 LR. As far as handguns go I started out with a ruger single six convertable.
I was lucky. My dad was into guns and hunting and a natural crack shot. He started me very young and worked with me at it. Once we went to a small neighborhood turkey shoot. I looked around and seen all the guys with bolts and scopes. I expressed my concern and pa said, yeah? Well they still got to hold them. He stepped up and won the turkey with this rifle.

 

[dahoss2002]

Daisy model 25

 

[CC83]

Chrome and black Remington Nylon 66. It's a nice gun but a pain to clean. You can't lock the bolt back.

 

[seadoubleyou]

My Winchester 04. Same one my kids started with.

 

[Cyrano]

Leaned to shoot a rifle with my Marlin 81DL, that my father gave me in 1946, at age 11. I still have it; the headspace is a little loose after many bricks of high velocity. but it's still accurate,

A High Standad Supermatic taught me how to shoot a pistol. It was the model with the muzzle brake holes on each side of the front sight. Traded it years ago on a S&W 41 which I still have. I finally found another Supermatic at a gun show and this one isn't going anywhere soon.

 

[meaneyedcatz]

I remember grandpa would hand me a shell and said something like " ya only have one shot, ya gotta make it count cause if your shooting to eat you'll go hungry if ya miss." and "we use to take a spent cartridge and put in over a blade of grass and shoot it off, that's what we did".

 

[BigBill]

Rifle, a match grade single shot bolt action 22lr with peep sites. I was deadly accurate with this rifle. I belonged to the Jr part of the gun club I was only 12yo. After that it was the remington semi auto in 30-06.(23yo)

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

I learned on a single shot Winchester 22, it might have been a model 69. My first handgun was a Colt New Frontier 22/22Mag combo. If you saw my groups at the club a couple of months ago, you would say I still don't know how to shoot! Ivan

 

[perrazi]

first actual firearm was my fathers' Winchester model 67 single shot. he owned it as a young man and I still have it.

 

[VeritasVincit]

My very first firearms experience was a Hawken rifle. It was a mountain man rendezvous, and I outshot the boy who invited me. It made him pretty upset but he beat me on the muzzleloader pistol so I suppose we were even. A few years later, I competed and won a rifle at a muzzleloader match. I took it to the trader I'd borrowed that first gun from and swapped it out. I still have it.