Were your ancestors into guns / target shooting?

[gdun]

My grandpa served during korea. he became a marksman with a garand.
HE never actually went to korea because when they found out he was a pro ball player/coach they had him man play/manage the baseball team. He was in the majors as a coach for a good number of years too. His brother did go to korea though, he caught a mortar blast to the head. He was in the dead pile until someone heard him moaning, and dug him out. now he has some steel in his skull.
Anyways, my gramps never got into guns after serving until my father and him started going hunting

[pennys dad]

My Pa wasnt into guns. My Ma not into guns. My grandpappy on my Ma's side rode with Pancho Villa. His guns are buried somewhere under 3 feet of concrete in an unknown spot. My Ma felt his guns where cursed because of all the deaths they caused.

[SJgunguy24]

I know my father did, or at least he died the last time he shot up dope....



My mom's side, hell yeah. Shoshoni indian, and British. My family got to the west back in the early 1800's. My family roots are southern Idaho and eastern Washington. We mixed with the natives and settled the part of the Snake river valley, and hunting and fishing was part of my family.
What's weird is my cousin and I won't see each other for a couple of years but when we do. We have the same intrests, back when I drank and smoked, we smoked the same cigs and drank the same booze.
We're booth into guns, love the outdoors and are really good with our hands.

[acolytes]

My dad was in the infantry in the Viet Nam war until he got his legs blown almost completely off by mortar fire. I don't think he was against guns or was a gun nut. He was just like whatever with it after the war. When I was still living at home I had guns, and my parents never had any problems with it. My mom is 63 now and a member of the NRA. She's not a gun nut, just a hardcore Republican. She would like to have a gun, but she's so tiny (4'10" and 85 pounds). The only thing she can handle is a .22. She keeps a butter knife under her pillow for protection. lol

[Rusty Shackleford]

Mom,dad,grandparents on both sides,aunts,uncles,cousins.......the gunnies are prevalent in my family.

I consider myself lucky to have been brought up in such a smart family. I have been shooting since I could safely hold and operate a gun.

[Hopi]

Great pic Turbi!!

I'm a descendant of Daniel Boone.

[Peter W Bush]

What is a blow forward pistol?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowback_(arms)#Blow-Forward

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwarzlose_Model_1908

[Super Spy]

I know we have big game hunters with multiple Safari's under their belts on both sides of the family. My Grandpa's sailboat was even named Safari. I don't know about pics but I'll ask.

[Bruce]

My mother was a shoter and nter (huntress?). She was the third of three girls and became the "son" my grandfather never had. He had a couple of shotguns, a 12ga and a 16ga. One was a SXS and the other a pump. Sadly, he sold them before he moved to California from Iowa,(and before I was that well known gleam in the eye), thinking he wouldn't be doing much more hunting at his age. I still have my mom's Winchester .22 pump that she used to head shoot squirrels.

[a1c]

Oddly enough, neither my dad nor his father were into shooting or hunting. My dad inherited a couple of rifles (double-barreled 16 and 20-gauge, respectively, and he refers to the latter as a "damsel rifle"), but he only took them out to shoot clay targets a couple of times a year, or to kill moles in his yard.

Almost all my uncles and cousins however were or are into hunting. And one of my cousins is in the military. Saw a lot of action in Africa and Afghanistan, but nothing he can really talk about...

I do have an old pic of a great-great-uncle with his rifle on his back. He looks like a Corsican bandit. I need to scan that pic next time I go to my parents.

[Greg-Dawg]

I was born to fight.

[HeyZeus]

My great grandfather got into an argument in the early fifty's with his neighbors. He shot and killed both and then offed himself. He was into guns. In his early life he shot a couple of robbers try to wagon jack him.

My uncle shot his stepson with a black powder pistol. The stepson was a violent kid and he would beat on my uncle. The kid lived and learned an important lesson.

[gdun]

[QUOTE=a1c;3310029]Oddly enough, neither my dad nor his father were into shooting or hunting. My dad inherited a couple of rifles (double-barreled 16 and 20-gaugeQUOTE]

damn i didn't know they made rifles in 16 and 20 gauge

[DB2]

It's hit and miss with mine. Some of my uncles were in the military. One grandfather was military pre WWII. Dad was in Marines, but not really into guns. After my aunt did the lineage, she said that one of my great, great, great........... Uncles had a gun. Patrick Henry. I thought that was kinda cool.

[Steyrlp10]

Absolutely!

First, there were the Tongs. Then came along my cousin, Bob Chow. Finally, a police family.

I don't keep a knife under my pillow, but I'm still handy with a fork - lol