Who Taught You How to Shoot a Gun?

[Bigunit]

So, who was that person in your life who taught you how to shoot a firearm the right way & how old were you? Best answer (as decided by me in my sole and absolute discretion ) gets a HUMMER collector's item - a rubber (prophylactic) OEM HUMMER trailer hitch cover.

 

[Green 1]

My Dad who was an Army reserve officer. We learned at our aunts farm and at the Army reserve indoor shooting range. I think the first time I got to shoot I was 8 or 9,

 

[alrock]

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[Expendable]

I was 12 years old, at the Air Force Academy doing a two week boot camp while I was a member of the US Navy sponsored USNSCC (United States Naval Sea Cadet Corps). Learned on an M16. Was trained by active duty Air Force and Navy personnel. I qualified for Sharpshooter (just short of expert) and second out of all the cadets in that class. I happened to also shoot the least amount of rounds out of the whole class too, which led everyone to think I was going to have the best marksmanship out of everybody.

unfortunately my mom is not a fan of guns (just doesn't like them but not a supporter for gun control) and would have freaked out if my dad taught me how to shoot and or would take me shooting.

 

[Kyle]

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lmao

 

[ArtHummer]

I was 15 and we had something like "Adolescent preparedness for the military draft" subject in high school. We were trained by active duty Army personal with AK47's...
Also we where thought basics of army discipline, Russian military equipment, first aid and nuclear warfare... Running in the hazmat suit is a b**ch...

 

[3Hummers]

My dad and the Boy Scouts. Got my two Boy Scout Marksmanship medals. One at the Army Reserve Range and one at Camp Tehoyja

 

[Big2dabank]

Shot my first squirrel with my dad with a .410/.22LR over/under shotgun when I was 8 years old. Taught my son how to shoot in 2011 when he was 7 years old and soon after, he killed his first doe. He killed his first buck this past year with a .308.

 

[RamRod]

dad taught me at 7 yrs old with a bunch of pop cans set up along the fence posts.... I was terrible, the .22 was an ancient single shot that my grandpa had since he was young... I still have that same .22 in my gun safe now!

 

[abearden]

I took a class when I was 20. My mom was anti-gun when I was a kid ("what if the kids find it?!"), so there weren't any in the house. Girlfriend took the course with a friend and said the teacher was good, so I took the class the following month then proceeded to buy each of us a handgun.

 

[ABNTROOP]

Grew up shooting here and there with my dad and he laid a solid foundation, but had the habits drummed Into me in Basic & AIT at FT. Benning, GA by Drill SGT Kerlin who was a sniper trained marksman with a lot of patience and a gift at teaching. His techniques have held me in good stead for years and I probably wouldn't be here to tell the tale otherwise. And then trained solid day in day out at Ft. Bragg, NC when I was stationed with 2/504th PIR in the 82nd. I can honestly say that shooting is the only time I'm truly able to relax, hyper focus, and leave all of life's BS on the back burner for a few blissful moments. And I love the smell of gunpowder.

 

[poncho1965]

Started at 13, at the local gun club and shot the NRA 50 ft course for years, earned my expert rifleman and was working on distinguished expert but did not finish. Joined the army and shot expert with my m16 a1, the first and one of three in the company to do so. So I blame the NRA, army for training me


Mike

 

[poncho1965]

Grew up shooting here and there with my dad and he laid a solid foundation, but had the habits drummed Into me in Basic & AIT at FT. Benning, GA by Drill SGT Kerlin who was a sniper trained marksman with a lot of patience and a gift at teaching. His techniques have held me in good stead for years and I probably wouldn't be here to tell the tale otherwise. And then trained solid day in day out at Ft. Bragg, NC when I was stationed with 2/504th PIR in the 82nd. I can honestly say that shooting is the only time I'm truly able to relax, hyper focus, and leave all of life's BS on the back burner for a few blissful moments. And I love the smell of gunpowder.

Nice! I won't hold it against you for being in the 82nd. I was 8/101at at Fort Campbell


Mike

 

[PCH2]

My Dad, who was a Deputy Sheriff of the Jeep Posse in Las Vegas. (Clark County Sheriffs Jeep Posse) I was about 8 and I would go with him on the weekends and patrol dirt roads North of Vegas around Beatty, (The Test Site late 60's) We had a 1968 F40 landcruiser we would load up Friday night and come back Sunday. We would stop out in the middle of nowhere and he would teach me to shoot his service revolver, .38 and we had a .22 we would plunk with. Good times, thanks BigUnit for taking me back there!!

 

[MtnRsqDawg]

Dad taught me when I was like 6/7yrs old with the good 'ol family Daisy Red Rider BB gun. When I proved my proficiency with that I moved up the scale, .22; .207; 30/30; .308 etc. etc. Even after 30+yrs we still hunt together but it's mostly with bow's and crossbow's now. When my son was like 5/6 started him on the same path...and the circle of life (in the woods :thumbs continues on.

 

[ABNTROOP]

Nice! I won't hold it against you for being in the 82nd. I was 8/101at at Fort Campbell


Mike

nice! I remember stopping off post for gas when I got out and drove back cross country on my move home. Got some dirt looks for my 82nd stickers on the rig lol!

 

[Big2dabank]

Nice stories here! Seems we all grew up on very similar paths and I am proud to do my part to pass on the tradition to my kids. My daughter, who is now 12, never really like the guns, she likes to squeeze off one or two rounds every once in a while, but she would rather shoot her recurve bow. I guess I can blame the Hunger Games for that, but its nice to see her setup the targets in the back yard and shoot. I think it helps her forget about the crap/drama she deals with in middle school.

 

[Kyle]

My neighbor who is a retired fbi agent taught me how to shoot when i was 14, i learned on my single shot .22 that my dad learned on and his dad learned on. We went to a private range for law enforcement and ex law enforcement, i thought it was soo cool to be around machine guns etc! anyways he spent at least an hour teaching me about gun safety and how to treat a gun properly, then taught me how to use the sights and hold the gun, finally after waiting for what felt like forever, i got to shoot! And to this day, i still go shooting with him every chance i get!


Sent from the top of a mountain in my h3

 

[skeptic]

Both my grandfathers shot a little with me when I was growing up. The one lesson I learned best: Shooting a .22 pistol, after a certain number of shots my grandpa took the gun, pull out the empty mag and showed me, then said aim again and pull the trigger. I did and as I'm sure you have guessed there was still a round in the chamber. Guns are always loaded, even when you think they are empty.

Oddly enough, around the time I was old enough to start getting interested in guns my dad stopped hunting, his guns were hidden away, and to this day I have shot with him exactly one time - as a young kid when he was sighting in a rifle for hunting season. I don't know if it was my mother's wish for me not to be exposed to shooting and hunting or what. Plenty of pics of my dad with guns when he was growing up, and after college I learned he still owned guns and even had a concealed weapons permit.

 

[JGBB04]

Dad, started w/ a pellet gun around 6/7 then a 410 shotgun & 22 rifle around 8/9. Started hunting at w/ him at 10 which was legal age in Maine. Few years after that moved up to a 20ga & 30-06. Then throw a bunch of LEO stuff on top of that

 

[Zach]

Learned on my own from knocking off liquor stores in my younger days.

 

[Rodzlla]

Slightly different than others...My mom taught me to shoot and all about firearm handling/safety. She was a national target shooting champ back in the day. Thanks Mom!

 

[PCH2]

Learned on my own from knocking off liquor stores in my younger days.

Watts?! Stockton area?! I think I read about you Zach!!!
Your too funny!:giggle:

 

[twinmill28]

My Uncle Sam. I was 19.

Took me out to the range, handed me an M-16 and said "make every round count like your life depends on it".

Less than two years later, I was standing in the middle of some crummy desert in a place called Saudi Arabia and every round I had counted very much as my life depended on it. The rest is history; it's called "The Gulf War".

 

[crank]

At 11 years old my Dad taught me to shoot and gun safety. He gave me my first gun for my birthday. A 12GA Ithca Deer Slayer Featherlight. My Aunt worked at the Ithaca Gun Factory in Ithaca NY making barrels. After a bunch of years later, I still have it and it works great.
Dad, you taught me many, many things.