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I had a foster brother who was much older, he enlisted in the Navy in 1940 and served throughout WWII in the Pacific. My parents worried about him constantly of course, we got our news from an old battery-powered radio of some sort, having no electricity in the ramshackle farm house we lived in.

In our family we had a 1903 Colt pistol, 38 ACP, my grandfather had found it one day in the 1920's as he was working on some railroad track, that being his profession. During the war, of course, ammo for it was unobtainable.

On VJ day, we got the news of the surrender from the old radio, joyous does not adequately describe my parents' reaction, their (foster) son would be coming home safe and sound!!

My father was so overwhelmed with happiness, he grabbed up the Colt and went out on the back porch and ripped off a full mag in celebration, me right beside him.

I was only 5 years old at the time, I thought that was the coolest thing I had ever seen, made me a gun nut right on the spot there and have been one ever since. :D
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At the age of 5, My maternal Grandmother took me down to the pier on the backwater creek where they lived. She gave me a safety lesson and a single shot 22!and ONE cartridge. We shot beer cans, driftwood, blue crab. I blame/thank her. Course a pretty healthy dose of Roy, Gene. Hoppy,Matt, Lucas, the Barkleys from the Big Valley, and them boys from the Ponderosa, MIGHT have had something to do with it :lol:
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I was a bit late joining the ranks, sure I had a BB gun, only cuz dad DETESTED squirrels. Then about 11 I got a pellet gun. 8th grade I went through a big growth spurt causing me to not play freshman football. So dad talked to a friend that ran a trap range. The guy that ran the range is still a dear friend and will always be my coach-The rest as they say is history!
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Guns weren't a part of my family life, being that my mom's brother was killed in a hunting accident shortly after returning from WW2, and mom wouldn't allow guns in the home.
I remember being sort of afraid of guns as a kid. That puts me a sort of unique position of actually being able to identify with those people who are firearms-phobic... LOL
I ended up getting a job working in the woods, back around '80, and the other guys had guns. So I just thought I'd try after a couple beers... It was inevitable.
That was about the time that the first Stainless Super Blackhawks were introduced. I bought one - Started handloading after finding out how expensive ammo can be.
I have a thing for kinetic energy and I'm sort of a pyromaniac too... Fireworks and stuff... NOT like arson or anything like that.
I also have a fascination for nicely produced objects made of steel. Guns are beauty for me.
Especially like older Colts and S&Ws.

Some of my friends consider me a Gun Freak because I have 5 guns... :roll:

With that said; I'd like to add - Not having any parental introduction / instruction to firearms gives me an appreciation of the value of that, as only someone who missed out on it could understand... If that makes sense.
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My Dad taught me to shoot a .22 rifle and a .410 shotgun when I was 6, so my interest started early. But it really caught fire the year I turned 14 and got my first job -- a helper in a local veterinary hospital. Doc was not only a first-class historian but also a rabid gun collector, with a collection that would be the envy of many museums. He subscribed to every gun magazine published, owned a huge library of gun-related books, and was generous with both his reading materials and his time when it came to feeding a kid's curiosity. I'll never forget firing some of his guns, like a beautiful original 1860 Colt Army, a minty Trapdoor Springfield, a gen-u-wine early-production S&W .357 Magnum. Thanks, Doc S.!
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A combination of many events ........ my earliest memories are of my dad and his WW2 buddies, living rurally where most people of substance had guns, near every TV show was a western....so I guess it can be attributed to "exposure"....an exposure that has many positive attributes that manifested itself to the monster I am today........but a happy monster. :D ----6
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When I was four my dad gave me a King single shot BB rifle that his brother had brought back from the States during the first world war. Roy Rogers off course had a lot do do with it. Funny I'm watching Roy Rogers (Son of Paleface) on TV while I type this ... :D
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Well I lit one up one day and been hooked ever since :D
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My dad bought me my first .22 LR when I was five, and would add one to my collection every few years after that. Didn't hurt that both of my grandfather's had pretty nice collections as well. One whole wall in a room in the house I grew up in was full of custom bolt action rifles. :wink:

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My dad got me a BB gun (a lever) for Christmas. I had turned 3 two weeks before. He made a box trap in the cellar and taught me to shoot. I couldn't cock it so he would cock it and hand it to me. Those are some of the earliest memories I have with my dad. Best buds ever since.
When I was a little older, it was like the old west in our neighborhood. The pellet gun leaned beside the door and you didn't leave without it. My dad made me a shoulder rig for my Co2 pistol and I wore it everywhere. I live behind where I grew up and still find BBs and pellets embedded in things all over. Two of my old buds are either in the same houses or next door too.
I have been fascinated with guns my whole life. My dad got me my first carry permit from the police chief. It was dated 3 days before my 18th birthday.

I bought my son's BB gun two days after I found out my wife was pregnant. And so it continued......... :D
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I grew up on a ranch and guns were just part of the tools most everyone had. They were in the trucks and on the horses and hanging in the house. When I visited my Grandpa's farm in Ohio he always had a .22 rifle with him. Used it to kill groundhogs, stray dogs that were chasing his cows, slaughter a pig etc. I was around them from birth.
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This is the King BB single shot my dad gave me 66 years ago, it not in the best condition, it was about 40 years old and well used when I got it but I've been a Levergunner ever since :D
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My earliest memories involve going with my Dad to the range to check his zero before deer season. He would dial in at 100, and then shoot a tennis ball sized rock at 300 and call it good. I remember loving the smell of the burnt powder and still love it.
JimT my Grandpa during the depression would not "waste" a 22 shell to butcher a pig but would wack em with a big ball peen hammer instead to save shells. Dad never shot a center fire rifle till he joined the army, not many deer around due to the screwworm.
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The history of guns.When I was 15 I bought a copy of the 1976 guns and Ammo annual and in it there was articles on Buffalo rifles, muzzleloaders etc and I was hooked
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It was an evolution for me. My brother and I had a BB guns that we went wild with on my Grandma's farm. She finally took them away because my brother would not stop shooting at me. We only had one gun in the house at my Mom and stepdad's house. He didn't trust my brother and I enough to let us pee in the house. Got to do some shooting in the Scouts.

My Dad was a different story. He had an 'accumulation'. I don't think I ever even saw all his guns until I was an adult. We used to line up guns on a table in the back yard on the 4th of July. We'd walk by and take a few shots and go do something else. This went on from just after breakfast until the sun went down. From the start of guests arriving and eating lunch and then dinner and everybody going home sun-burnt and beat up from frisbee, football, croquet, flying kites, arguments, storytelling, the whole thing. Just being out there with the men, cousins, and friends BS'ing having a few laughs and sending rounds down range. A lot of guys willing to help you out or straighten you up. Used to hunt rabbits with my Grandpa and deer with my Dad.

Then I went onto the Marine Corps and spent many a weekend out at a dump somewhere shooting objects d' target and more coyotes than I could count. Was kinda the same as being home on the 4th but almost every weekend.

I got married and started my own accumulation. Then I inherited my Dad's accumulation. Good Lord... LOL. :lol:

My wife said I was the first guy she'd ever met that had guns and used them to hunt. A sheltered girl...

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same story. I remember the day I sat with Dad and fired a 22 he was holding. I was 4. not in school yet . . . a long affair
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I don't remember a time that I was not into guns. I really got into them after I got my student loans paid off and could afford to buy a few.
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I don't know where it started but it's been an addiction now for 66 years. there is little hope I will ever stop looking for the "next one". when I was 6 years old I went to the hospital to get My tonsil's out and I took a small replica Winchester 94 with Me to surgery. can't trust them Doctors.
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My dad, he bought me my first BB gun, upgraded me to an 1894 lever BB gun, then a Benjamin 22cal pellet, a single shot H&R break barrel 20 gauge. Dad took me out to shoot his Ruger Mark I, had a neighbor light load a box of 12 gauge shells and took me out trap shooting, and I outshot my dad...lol.He went hunting with friends but never took me along. After that I moved out on my own, got married, had kids and when my son was 10 he asked me why I don't go hunting or at least take him hunting...... well we started hunting and have had a lot of fun, he's 23 now.
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Around age 5 my dad died and we got thown out of our rental house for owing beck-rent. We moved into a house out in the boonies and were poor enough to depend on a garden. As the one with the least other useful skills (my siblings were older and could get jobs), groundhog and rabbit patrol became my duty.
A 22 LR single shot was all I had but it worked.
Later on it did duty against feral dogs when we got sheep.

Then a friend of my brothers who was into guns started coming over to shoot since we had a good place for that. He let me shoot bolt action Mausers and Rolling-blocks and Garands and all sorts of handguns. What kid wouldn't love that...! By third grade I was hooked, and soon my brother gave me my own Ruger 10/22.

In junior high or high school my mom got me a Ruger Mark I pistol to go with the rifle. The next 'pair' I got were 44 Mags; an 1894 Marlin and a Super Blackhawk (mom had to get that too since I was still a kid).

I've been buying "the final gun to complete my 'collection'" for half a century now.... :lol:
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None of my relatives, that I knew of, were hunters or shooters. My father did neither as work "kept him busy". Growing up in the ghetto my first encounter with firearms was "zip guns". Made from toy pistols, single shot with a steel tube barrel and firing 22 rimfires. I secretly made one in metal shop in the 8th grade, but was afraid to fire it. I guess like many boys I had a fascination with guns and my first real gun was not acquired until I was 19-20 years old. It was a Ruger Single Six, and I was impressed with a small, precision "machine" as much as I was fascinated by a real gun. I got to be a pretty fair handgun shot and often drove out to the desert and shot jack rabbits. Best shot I can remember was about 75-80 yards from a sitting position, with the Magnum cylinder installed; 2 "ranging" shots and the 3rd contacted...
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AJMD429 wrote: Wed Feb 19, 2020 8:57 am Around age 5 my dad died and we got thown out of our rental house for owing beck-rent. We moved into a house out in the boonies and were poor enough to depend on a garden. As the one with the least other useful skills (my siblings were older and could get jobs), groundhog and rabbit patrol became my duty.
A 22 LR single shot was all I had but it worked.
Later on it did duty against feral dogs when we got sheep.

Then a friend of my brothers who was into guns started coming over to shoot since we had a good place for that. He let me shoot bolt action Mausers and Rolling-blocks and Garands and all sorts of handguns. What kid wouldn't love that...! By third grade I was hooked, and soon my brother gave me my own Ruger 10/22.

In junior high or high school my mom got me a Ruger Mark I pistol to go with the rifle. The next 'pair' I got were 44 Mags; an 1894 Marlin and a Super Blackhawk (mom had to get that too since I was still a kid).

I've been buying "the final gun to complete my 'collection'" for half a century now.... :lol:
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Thanks, 2ndovc.

As for mikld's making a 'zip-gun'....oddly enough, anyone who has made a zip-gun has my respect....! I know some folks who are criminals make them for nefarious purposes, but I'll wager that 90% of them were made by curious young males, just like most of us (....who, me...???) made 'pipe-bombs' as kids. It's what normal young male kids DO..... Look throughout cultures, from the aboriginal tribes through the 21st Century, and teenage males are the ones pushing the envelope with 'risk-taking'. Bad, if it is in the ghetto, and they are holding up liquor stores or fighting over gang-turf for drug dealing.....but GOOD if the society isn't a screwed-up socialist (or 'crony-capitalist') one bent up on the Republicans 'war on drugs' and Democrats 'war on poverty'. Remember, it is the "teenage males with guns" who GAVE THEIR LIVES on D-Day over half a century ago, and I'll wager it is the same demographic who fought every battle for freedom there ever was.
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As a kid I used a BB gun on my grandparent's farm when we visited, but we had not even that at home. When I started work as an engineer, one of the lab technicians invited me to join him shooting, including his 336 in .30-30. (We remained friends until he died a few years ago.) Not long after first going shooting, I acquired my first gun, a Ruger revolver. Like others here, I'm always looking for the Perfect Gun, one which will let me sell all the others--not yet found.
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Wish I knew the answer? My dad was an avid hunter as a young man, but when he moved to the big city in his mid 20's he sold his guns because he said the woods were "too crowded". And that was late 1920's! He occasionally shot a .22 rimfire rifle if we went to visit my uncle, and we got to shoot some also. I do recall it was always one of the high points in my younger years to shoot that rifle.
I personally wanted a gun of my own long before I could buy one legally. I didn't get my first gun until I was 18 yrs. old and could buy it myself. I had the funds earlier, but no convincing my dad to take my money and buy the gun as he said I had no place to shoot it, so what would I do with it? Of course he was right, but it didn't stop me from wanting a gun.
But after I bought that first gun I really seemed driven to own as many as I could save for. I'd put as much away as possible each payday, and spent much of my spare time hanging out at local gun stores. I eventually picked a favorite store based solely on the guy at the gun counter who gave me great advice, and would set aside guns he knew I was interested in. Back then it was old .22 pump rifles as they were the cheapest old guns I could collect. I amassed a collection of Win., Rem., Marlin, Savage, Stevens, etc. .22 pumps, with the vast majority by far being my favorite Rem. Model 12 variations.
Eventually I began buying other old guns, and also began selling off my .22 pumps to buy whatever the latest interest was. I changed directions numerous times, and sold off previous guns for a small profit as I did. Each time I kept some of the previous interest, so today I'm almost exclusively pre 1800's single shots, but still have small collections leftover from a few other collections.
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....of course....THIS might have "turned me on to guns", too..... :mrgreen:
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Look up Vanessa Swainston. She is a model who often models with guns. She probably has brought more than a few young men to look at guns. Well, if they look at anything other than her.
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I think when my holster quit cutting a furrow in the ground. My dad and his younger brother were both into guns, I can’t remember not shooting. We are/were fortunate enough to have a few acres so Sunday afternoon shooting at our home range has gone on along as I can remember. My. Dad and uncle lived next door to each other. They passed away in 2015 and 2018 respectively. I am often the only one at the range on sundays now. My son is a great kid... senior in high school. has absolutely no interest in guns. Can’t load even the most basic firearms, my Mom cannot stand the fact that like guns and shoot them weekly. My wife has no interest, won’t even look at the ones her dad left her. So I am the weird one in our family for loving them, taking them apart to the last screw and pin, cleaning them and using them.
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2ndovc wrote: Fri Feb 21, 2020 4:22 am :D :D :D
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Hunting with Dad and black and white episodes of Gunsmoke at the neighbor's house. We didn't have TV until the early 70's.
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About 50 years ago I was on xmas holidays in the country with a schoolteacher. We were walking along the riverbank and he handed me his 9422 Winchester and said "see that stick sitting across that log in the river", I said "yep", and he said "shoot it".
It was about a 50 yard shot with open sights on a stick about 1 foot long, and I just lined it up and shot it.
Since then I've shot bolt guns, semi autos, shotguns, and a bunch of other stuff, but my own gun collection now consists of 3 lever guns, and if I add any more, they'll be lever guns too. I reckon anybody would be hard pressed to forget their first shot. Of all the guns I've sold, I think I miss my 9422 Winchester the most, and I sold that back in the early 90s.
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I started in the Boy Scouts, with the Junior Marksmanship Program. I earned my Expert around 16. I never shot a firearm again until around 40.
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piller wrote: Sat Feb 22, 2020 1:34 am
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Rather a loaded question, no?
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