George Dickel
Member
I didn't even though my family were farmers. I don't believe my grandfather ever owned a gun and my dad had a single shot .22lr rifle when I was very young but I never saw it after that. My dad was an only child so there weren't any uncles other than great uncles. Only one of them was a hunter/gun owner. He lived in Wiggins, Colorado and had a hunting cabin in the mountains. He would sometimes come back to Iowa to see family and would bring back venison and elk meat for us. Even on my mother's side of the family, 9 brothers and sisters, who were farmers there weren't any gun owners or hunters. From an early age I had an interest in guns but didn't get one until I was 14 and it was a bolt action .410 shotgun. A couple years later I bought a .22 rifle and got ahold of an Argentine Mauser that I used for hunting.