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08-03-2012, 08:31 AM
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#1 | | Senior Member
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|  How Did You Learn to Shoot?
How did you learn to shoot? Did you take a class or other type of training, or did you have a relative teach you? My grandfather was really into guns and I'm sure he would've taught me, but he passed away before I was old enough to learn.
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08-03-2012, 09:25 AM
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#2 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Liberty, N.Y. Lower Catskill Mountains. Posts: 2,335
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Hi...
I hunted with a family member prior to my teen years, but was never "taught" how to shoot. I taught myself, bought my own firearms and ammo, all as a tween and teen.
If you wonder where the money came from, it was earned by trapping, which I also taught myself.
I was always outdoors, target shooting, hunting, observing, fishing...even "playing" with gunpowder...!!
Once, as a pre-tween, as I was sitting outdoors where my parents were working, I was beating two rocks together. My folks had no need to pay closer attention to me, until they heard the bullet explode. What I was banging those two rocks on was a .22 bullet. Scared the bejabbers out of them...!! (Fortunately, no harm was done, except, perhaps, to my bottom!).
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08-03-2012, 09:40 AM
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#3 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Idaho Posts: 3,791
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By watching Gene Autry and Roy Rogers 
Well, maybe some help from Dad and brothers. But by eight, I could handle that old winchester 69 .22 pretty good. 
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08-03-2012, 03:58 PM
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#4 | | Moderator
Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Goatneck, Texas Posts: 1,580
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Started plinking around the house and hunting with Dad, Grandfather and uncles.
Uncle Sam taught me to be a true rifleman!
DC
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08-03-2012, 04:40 PM
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#5 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Richton Park, Illinios Posts: 2,986
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Once I turned 16, my mother gave me all my fathers guns. He had passed away years earlier when I was 9. I started asking questions to my friends fathers about guns and read up on what I could find. Started shooting with other experienced shooters and just went from there. It wasn't until the military that weapons training got real fun and interesting.
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08-03-2012, 07:50 PM
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#6 | | Senior Member
Join Date: May 2011 Location: West Virginia Posts: 1,329
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My Dad, who wasn't real interested in guns, showed me the basics. My grandfather showed me a bit about wingshooting, although he was too feeble with age to do much. The rest I taught myself, or picked up from friends.
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08-03-2012, 10:05 PM
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#7 | | Forester
Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Minden, NV Posts: 1,625
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Daddy taught us to shoot when we were about 7-8 years old with a single shot Mossberg .22. We were hunting by elementary school and on a rifle team by aged 10. I took riflery at a summer camp once at about age 12.
Dad has always been a decent gunsmith too. He built a stock for a 1903 Enfield that is still around after 70 years. He taught us how to handload as teenagers. I was out with my Dad this week looking at guns. We found some great ones. The best was an 1886 Winchester deluxe lightweight takedown with a pistol grip. It had the factory Lyman lever sight and was in .33 Winchester. Our interest in guns was started at a young age and is still a source of fun.
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08-04-2012, 01:26 AM
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#8 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 561
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Taught myself with help from friends. Also learned to shoot at boy scout summer camp.
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08-04-2012, 07:24 AM
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#9 | | Senior Member
Join Date: May 2009 Posts: 540
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I learned by shooting.  I have a lot of relatives that had their own guns and we were always going out to the range when they had the time.
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08-04-2012, 07:56 AM
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#10 | | Moderator
Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Goatneck, Texas Posts: 1,580
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Originally Posted by ppine  Daddy taught us to shoot when we ........ |
Wow!
I am not the only man on the planet who still calls his 72 year old father "Daddy"!!
Allways have, allways will I guess.
DC
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