Where did you learn to shoot?

[Funbaby]

The rolling fields and woods of the Chiltern Hills, Buckinghamshire and the ranges at Bisley, Surrey.

[Mr Wizard]

Self taught at Lytle Creek, when it was still the wild west.

Thirty years later, I learned how to shoot straight.

[SimpleCountryActuary]

R - O - T - C
I learned to shoot in the
R - O - T - C

(enough of that stuff)

M1922 Springfield .22lr training rifle.

[RudyN]

I started a bit by myself, then I was a Reserve Deputy Sheriff. The most shooting I have done is black powder Shirmish type shooting. I am cathcing up to it with my ARs and 1911s though.

[aklon]

I was eight years old and staying with my great-uncle Melville Pride (Captain of the Belleau Wood during WW2) at his cabin on Sebec Lake near Dover-Foxcroft, Maine, on "Pride's Point." He had my grandfather's .22 rifle, a huge old thing with one of those narrow 3x telescopic sights maybe an inch wide. There was a clearing in the woods not far from the cabin and we'd set up tin cans which we'd pick up afterwards all shot full of holes.

I remember marvelling at the dry greasiness of the bullets we were using.

[Echidin]

I learned to shoot from my father when I was around the age of 11 yo.

[223Devil]

BB gun when I was 12. My grandmother taught me how. She owned her first gun when she was 12

[tombinghamthegreat]

Boy Scouts at the age of 11.

[bsg]

i began shooting in 1963 in the desert of california.

-Brady-

[Rob454]

Arkansas and Wyoming as a little kid going hunting and just shooting guns.

[ledman]

An informal survey due to curiosity

I grew up in Mendocino County and shot at the hillside in my backyard (which was safe but I've recently learned not legal ) and was in Scouts for most of my childhood, which meant lots of camps with rifle/shotgun ranges.

Because of that, I'm pretty lousy with a pistol but can throw a tomahawk pretty well

So what about you?

My Dad Taught me starting at age 10...I grew up in rural PA.
I started out with a Marksman Pistol BB gun...it looked like a 45 and the slide cocking action and pulled back to load the BB...it held like 15 BB's or so and also a C02 Crossman 357 pellet pistol...I loved the look of these as a kid as they looked SO real, it fooled all my friends the first time.

I then moved on to the Daisy Model 10 lever action BB rifle and then a Crossman 760 pneumatic pump-master BB/.177 pellet rifle,I needed more power to kill the pigeons nesting on the eves of our house and the Model 10 did not have enough power.
Then I got a Marlin 60 .22lr to go rabbit/squirrel hunting and a Winchester 12 gauge...and when I was 18 I joined the US Marine Corps. I used to shoot bow and arrow too, that was allot of fun.

I shot Expert in boot-camp, and I attribute it all to my Dad, a former Marine DI at Parris Island, and rifle expert, Thanks Dad!

[rojocorsa]

Boy Scouts and private citizen.