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...nice Colt hammerless you got there. Do you know the model number or when it was made ? I have a Colt Model 1908 ( 2nd variation ) in .380 acp that was made in 1927. Probably one of the most concealable pistols Colt made...here's a pic of mine
Currently learning on a Henry Arms AR-7 .22LR. When I bought it at the gun show in my senior year of high school, there was an eight-year-old whose dad was buying her her first .22 for her birthday in line in front of me. We both had the same gleeful grin on our faces when we got our rifles.
Before I'd gotten into shooting, I'd only been out to the range once, when I was 12.
Then, when I was 19, I asked my dad if I could take his .303 and a Marlin Model 60 that no one really knew how we acquired out to the range. So that, IMO, is the first time I really went to shoot, and a 95 (now 97) year old Lee Enfield No.1 MkIII was the gun I learned to shoot on. A few months after that, my grandfather gave me a large portion of his collection, and I learned to shoot handguns with a 1911 and a Smith 586.
It was a Mossy .22 semi-auto with a 7 shot magazine and a fold-down forend. I thought it was the coolest thing in the world. Got my own bolt-action Stevens about 3 years later, at 12.
Started out with a Daisy Red Ryder BB gun. My dad had a Remington Mod. 34, bolt action tube feed that shot .22 shorts/longs/long rifle. Moved up to his Ranger .20 ga double that brought me rabbits and pheasants and pats and squirrels to the table. Finally got my first whitetail with that old gun. I saved up my money and when I got to be 16, I purchased a Ithica Featherweight pump in .12 ga.
Learned pistols with an old Colt .38 cal wheelgun.
Well, let's see. Had a BB pistol (the Crossman 1911 POS) as a kid. Dunno if that really counts or not.
In Boy Scouts, I earned Rifle and Shotgun Merit badge at summer camp. Some kind of single shot bolt action .22s and we had an obligitory 1 round through a pump 12 ga for the shotgun part of the badge. Technically this would be when I was taught to shoot. They explained how to align the sights on the target. That was about it. Not much on The 4 Rules or anything. Come on, you got 15 year olds teaching 12 year olds how to shoot! Official NRA Rifle course it was not!!
My first handgun was my Ruger Redhawk .44 Mag. This is when I really started to learn to shoot! Pretty much taught myself by experimenting, asking lots of questions at the range and of people who I knew were shooters, and reading tons of books and magazines. I probably had 4 different gun magazine subscriptions those first few early years. They're all in a very Heavy Box out in the garage...
I learned to shoot with a Sears & Roebuck .22 bolt action, made by Marlin sometime in the '50s. I had to be careful with the bolt because it would unscrew fairly easily.
The "big handgun" that I learned to shoot with was my dad's Smith & Wesson .38 Special which seemed huge at the time. And I remember thinking that the recoil was just awful !
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