Average Age of Forum Members?

What Is Your Present Age

  • Under 20

    Votes: 2 0.4%

  • 20ish

    Votes: 10 2.2%

  • 30ish

    Votes: 47 10.4%

  • 40ish

    Votes: 68 15.0%

  • 50ish

    Votes: 92 20.3%

  • 60ish / still working

    Votes: 58 12.8%

  • 60ish / Retired

    Votes: 93 20.5%

  • 70ish

    Votes: 73 16.1%

  • 80ish plus

    Votes: 10 2.2%
  • Total voters
    453
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Steve S. said:
I am old enough to have experienced walking into a Woolworth’s with my mother, selecting a 7mm military Mauser from a large cardboard drum full of rifles, going to checkout with a few dollars and walking out of the store with the rifle - no different than buying a loaf of bread today.
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Well that explains all the shot up bodies that littered the streets everywhere. Any old Tom Dick and Harry could just buy guns willy nilly. I wondered why all those pictures from the 50's and 60's had all these dead folks laying around.

Wait, sorry, that was the last Tarantino movie I watched, never mind.
 
larryh1108 said:
As of this post:
241 votes
Avg 52.4ish
Median: 50ish knocking the door on 60ish
122 50ish or less
119 50ish plus
Interesting mix.
My biggest surprise is the 30ish number (22).
I thought we had more 30ish guys here.
Now, does this mean that gun owners are a diminishing group (per number of voters only) or that the 30ish crowd are just too busy to visit gun forums (kids, work, etc.)?
The largest group, by far, is the 60ish group with a total of 76 (31%). 2nd is 50ish with 49 and 3rd is 40ish with 44. Just behind is our fine seniorist group of 70+ with 43.
This is a well rounded forum with a ton of experience to share.
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I can say based on the range I go to I always see plenty of people in their 20's and 30's there. Handgun shooting the most, followed by AR-15 shooting followed by some sort of hunting rifle shooting. The mil-surps shooters tend to be 40 and up mostly. Follow the price of certain guns compared to being younger and budgets and that all makes sense.

I am 53 now, joined like 13 or 14 years ago? but I didn't really get into computer online till around 2004 or 2005. Someone mentioned AR-15.Com I looked at it just too hard for me to navigate through it they have so many sub sections. There are times I wish the THR was a little more lenient for topics, like when talking politics at least tying into gun rights for instance the thread I just had on Chinese bans but THEN again in the end I appreciate keeping a lot of mumbo jumbo in check that can make things spiral down hill among members in discussion. The only other forum I have ever spent time on is gunboards.com for military surplus advice and info and I haven't logged into it in 10 years.

Could be that younger people do use different forms of social media also, I know a lot of younger people prefer other social media to face book for example and probably forums also.

For me, I work full time and have other stuff going on also, don't really have the time or the want to seek out and bother with other gun forums or social media I like THR, it fills all my needs mostly and have become familiar with many members by posts.
 
nortwoods1 said:
i think im the only person to vote for under 20. I'm currently 19 and have been extremely involved with firearms. i certainly do feel like an outcast compared to others my age for many reasons including my hobby and love of guns. i got married at 18, we are homeowners as well, all the jobs ive had and my current one is involved with agriculture/physical labor, and I am a high school dropout. i probably shouldnt have gone into detail about my personal life but whatever i dont care.
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It's good to have a high school diploma per say, for some careers a college diploma helps out or is necessary, but in the end drive, focus, aptitude , along with some common sense and intelligence plays the biggest role in success.

Life long friend of mine considered family in a sense, dropped out of high school and started working for a lawn maintenance company, that company grew huge to where it had several high dollar contracts with big companies, he became the right hand man of the owner 2nd in charge of the company and is now a multi millionaire because. His son is in his 20's and is growing marijuana in Colorado and is now his own millionaire because.

So my friend take on the world, it is yours for the taking.
 
I’m 21, I know there’s a myth that us younger people don’t like guns or believe in self defense. But that’s not really true. I’ve only recently got into firearms seriously about 6 years ago; before then I was more in swords and maces. But then I saw a video on the Mosin Nagant and had to have one for Christmas, that how I got bit by the bug.
 
Mullo98 said:
I’m 21, I know there’s a myth that us younger people don’t like guns or believe in self defense. But that’s not really true.
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I never thought that. In the end it depends where you grew up and what possibly your parents stood on it and even then you still form your own mind as time goes. Us that are older, we were 21 one time also and have gone through very same or similar things you have or do in life, I liked guns after being exposed to shooting growing up and it never stopped. I wasn't raised in rural life either, I grew up in the massive suburbs of Miami, it is true there is a divide between city people and not on guns in general terms when you think in terms of like NYC or Chicago or Seattle, but suburban and even city people can be and are pro gun ownership.
 
I'm 57, I remember when my dad & I went to GI Surplus where he purchased a milsurp 6.5X52mm Carcano 18" barrel carbine for me to use on hunting trips at age 13. He used a milsurp SMLE .303 he'd removed the top wood from to make it lighter. I'd performed well in the NRA Youth program with .22 RF and kept my school grades way up. I still have my paper Texas Hunter Safety Certificate wallet card from 1975. I laminated it soon after I earned it. I'm still in the database and downloaded the modern electronic version to my phone & Google drive.

I sold the Carcano when I was around 25 frustrated trying to find decent ammo. I still have his .303 for purely sentimental reasons.
 
nortwoods1 said:
i think im the only person to vote for under 20. I'm currently 19 and have been extremely involved with firearms. i certainly do feel like an outcast compared to others my age for many reasons including my hobby and love of guns. i got married at 18, we are homeowners as well, all the jobs ive had and my current one is involved with agriculture/physical labor, and I am a high school dropout. i probably shouldnt have gone into detail about my personal life but whatever i dont care.
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Got married and a homeowner before the age of 20? Damn straight you're an outcast. That's a rarity in 21st century America. Well done and a great start. :thumbup:

Don't quit learning, though. Even if that learning isn't related to school learning. The world will pass you by otherwise. :)
 
College degrees are highly over-rated nowadays unless you have a position waiting on the other end - or your family is independently wealthy - or you're a masochist.
-And yes, I have a Master's... .
I know more wealthy craftsmen and businessmen than I do people that obtained their wealth because of their degrees.
Just like shooting - do what works for you.
 
theotherwaldo said:
College degrees are highly over-rated nowadays unless you have a position waiting on the other end - or your family is independently wealthy - or you're a masochist.
-And yes, I have a Master's... .
I know more wealthy craftsmen and businessmen than I
do people that obtained their wealth because of their degrees.
Just like shooting - do what works for you.
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I definitely agree. Mine's only an Associate Degree, but it is in English, hence the barb on "per say". I have friends the are welders than make almost 3 times what I do. I just happened to graduate high school at a time when you didn't really have a choice-you were going to college.
 
The question no one seems able to answer is: why does a college education cost so much today? Are the socialist indoctrinators of our youth, you know, the ones who were throwing rocks at and spitting on returning vets from Viet Nam (if they hadn't themselves yet returned from their safe from serving Canadian sanctuaries) when they were young but who are now entitled professors who can't be fired from their jobs no matter what they say or do, worth that much? Does it cost that much to keep a campus building warm in the winter and cool in the summer?
Maybe someone here can answer the question I've long been asking...:confused:
 
Oh Boy,
I turned 70 last Oct.
In Sept, I drug a 14 point nontypical buck out of the woods behind the house.
A year before, I drug a 9 point out of the woods behind the house.
The year before that, I drug an 8 point out of the woods behind the house.

Good thing they were small bodied deer or I'd have had to use the winch.
I jumped off the Stratosphere in Vegas a couple years ago.
I had a zipline to my tree stand.

I just applied for a Cow elk tag in Wyoming.

Now, I hurt everywhere.
I got 2 bad knees, a bad shoulder, had corneal stitches in one eye, lost a finger in a job accident, can't see well, can't hear well, have gas, I burp often and have erectile dysfuction and a hangnail.

Aside from that, I feel pert as a ruttin buck.
 
SwampWolf said:
The question no one seems able to answer is: why does a college education cost so much today?
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I'm not sure why it's so expensive, but NY a few years back passed a law that kids starting college whose parents made less than 100k/yr could go for free, our youngest started just before it passed and wasn't retroactive to him.

27hand said:
Aside from that, I feel pert as a ruttin buck.
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Good or I'd have to whip you with a knotted plow line.
 
stillquietvoice said:
I'm not sure why it's so expensive, but NY a few years back passed a law that kids starting college whose parents made less than 100k/yr could go for free,
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Nothing is "free", of course. And a long time friend of mine who lives in upstate New York (Central Square) will tell anyone who cares to listen that a college education in most parts of New York is anything but cheap.
 
I see no rational explanation for the extreme hyperinflation costs to obtain a post-secondary education have gone through since I graduated high school. I remember when I was in high school reading newspaper articles about protests of in-staate tuition in Texas jumping to $4 / semester hour. Next all the BS fees - building use fee, and so on, on top of tuition. When I started, only lab classes had extra fees - lab fees.

However it was accomplished, it was extremely (insidiously) effective, and here to stay.
 
I am a transplant, born in Liverpool UK in 1935. Carry a Glock 19 every day. Played with a new Glock 43X for a while? But went back to that nice G19. Hard to beat 16 rounds of Federal 147g ready to go.
I started school at aged 5, left at 15. A couple of months off, whilst they fixed the damage caused by a German bomb. Seems to me, a community college education, a good trade, plumber, electrician, is the way to go for a fit young student at this time. The freedom of being armed, here in Florida is hard to beat. The person who is responsible for you and your families safety is you! Both in bringing home the bacon so to speak, and making sure no one walks off with said bacon!
 
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