Were your ancestors into guns / target shooting?

[MrPlutonium]

My grandfathers and father were all conscripts in the south korean army, so they all knew how to shoot but my father has a particular aversion to having guns in his home. He enjoys shooting but somehow will not have guns at home, which I find a bit perplexing, but to each his own I guess.

[TaxAnnihilator]

Great photos. Apparently one of my great (maybe +great) grandfathers made a rifle, I have not seen it yet, nor have much info. But I have been itching to get my hands on it!

Grandfathers were in the military, but not really into firearms.

[Seesm]

Some were into firearms yes and some no...

My Grandpa was station in Germany during WWII and was big into firearms and I have all his stuff.

My Dad and step dad where both in the armed forces during Vietnam but neither are all that into guns after... (heck maybe not even before)

My step Dad is not into them at all and my Dad has a bunch but never shoots or even cleans or looks at them. I just started to get him to let me clean and shoot his to keep em going...

Nobody else in my family is into guns at all hence why I got all G-Pa's guns...

Well my Mom (My WWII G-Pa's oldest daughter) likes to shoot her pistol once in awhile at my place.

[Turbinator]

Got a few more to share with you guys, just for fun:



Above: My dad playing with one of his toy guns, in public, in front of his house, no orange plugs and no goofy colors. Sometime around mid or late 1940's.



Above: Dad playing cops / robbers with his cousin, with toy guns. Again, no goofy orange plugs or weirdo colors.



Above: My dad pistol whipping his cousin... Try to get away with playtime like *this* nowadays!! Again, mid or late 1940's.

All pics were taken in San Francisco. Good times...

Turby

[nagorb]

Even in my day most of the guns didn't have any of the bright colors. Now you cant find any that even look semi real, at least that I have seen.

[Turbinator]

Even in my day most of the guns didn't have any of the bright colors. Now you cant find any that even look semi real, at least that I have seen.

Did they have barrel plugs that were red though?

My toy guns were black or cast metal; but they all had red barrel plugs. I promptly removed those plugs from as many of my toy guns as I could..

Turby

[nagorb]

Did they have barrel plugs that were red though?

My toy guns were black or cast metal; but they all had red barrel plugs. I promptly removed those plugs from as many of my toy guns as I could..

Turby

Some did but most didn't. If they did have it I did the same.

I remember my mom telling me I should paint them so I didn't get shot by someone.

[Cokebottle]

Did they have barrel plugs that were red though?

My toy guns were black or cast metal; but they all had red barrel plugs. I promptly removed those plugs from as many of my toy guns as I could..

Growing up in the 60s, none of mine did.
I had a metal 1911 cap gun (that was a bit smaller than a baby Kel-Tec) that was flat OD green. One grip flipped open to load, and the caps fed out the top where a very realistic hammer fired them.

Had a very real looking revolver in plastic, metal hammer. Bone white grip and black frame, typical potmetal hammer. Not a cap gun, just a noisemaker.

Daisy "shotgun" air rifle. Didn't fire anything but a light puff of air, but if you put motor oil in the "oil" hole, it smoked after being "fired".

Had a gazillion other various capguns and cork guns... all were very realistic. The only guns I ever had that looked like toys were the suction cup dart guns and water pistols... and I even had quite a few flat black water pistols!
They were cool, but I didn't like them because I could never tell when I needed to reload.


And yes... this is yet another example of California's stupid gun laws.
Like the kid that pulls the cap off of his toy gun... what's to keep the bag guys from shooting the ends of their guns with orange paint?

[7.62x54R]

No Family that i know of is into guns. except for me

[fal_762x51]

Grandfather fought for the Philippines under the U.S. in WWII, great grandfather fought against the U.S. during the Philippine Insurrection. My grandmother grew up on the farm in the east coast, the family always hunted; I need to find the pictures of the turkey and the Sears shotgun. My mother was into target shooting with a bow and my father was never big on hunting because he grew up in L.A.. I do both target and hunting with a little bit of collecting mixed in.

[odysseus]

Yes, I come from a long, long line of gun owners in my American ancestry. Going much further back there is a coat of arms of a warrior clan, and colors I could be wearing. On both sides paternal and maternal there is an ancestry of arms ownership and practice. I was shooting after I could walk.

[Steyrlp10]

Did they have barrel plugs that were red though?

My toy guns were black or cast metal; but they all had red barrel plugs. I promptly removed those plugs from as many of my toy guns as I could..

Turby

Cute pics -- I had a similar rig for all my cowboy stuff, including the black hat with white stitching -- yeehaw! Maybe it's a SF/Bay Area thing?

So, it was hilarious to see my husband's baby photos -- he had the same stuff as I did except he was on a real pony! I have that 8x10 in my office along with police and bass photos. Reminds the bosses to not stress me out - lol

[Dr. Peter Venkman]

Nope. First generation shooter.

[M. D. Van Norman]

There have been firearms in my family going back at least a couple generations, but that fact was rarely discussed. My father (a self-described bleeding-heart liberal Democrat) had an extensive collection that I learned about only just before he sold it. I got him interested in shooting again a few years ago, and now we occasionally go to the range together.