Who had guns as kids (under 18) and what kind?

My first 2 firearms were around the age of 6. I had a Marlin Papoose 22lr, and a single shot .410. I can't remember the specific make. I killed my first deer at the age of 7, using a 250 Savage.

 

ruger 10-22

 

Savage .22/.410 over/under gifted from my grandpa around 14yoa. Also a .410 double barrel from the 1800s (not for shooting- too old for modern powder).

Though I routinely shot everything under the sun with friends/family at the range.

 

Got my first firearm at 14. Ruger 10-22. I still have it 34 years later, and yet it hasn’t killed anybody. In fact the only firearm that I can personally say has killed someone is the one I was issued in the army. I can say that because I seen it happen. I own some garands, SKSs, mosins, Mausers, arisakas, etc. they may have killed people, but I can’t confirm that. But when I was 14, I got my 10-22, and since I had to keep it locked in the gun cabinet, I was also given a key.

 

I thought this little girls success is enlightening,

https://www.twincities.com/2018/03/...ld-girls-rise-on-the-active-shooting-circuit/

 

My first rifle was a Springfield model 10, single shot .22 s,l,lr. First deer rifle was youth model Remington 700 in .243, I was 7. I then graduated to a Winchester .30-30 and have been collecting lever actions ever since. One of my favorites right now is the Standard Arms model G in .35 Remington...pump action that can be turned into semi-auto at the flick of a switch. This rifle by the way is pre WW1. Look it up, they are cool.

 

a month or two after I turned ten, my grandfather died-a highly decorated WWI officer. My dad came home from his now empty home he grew up in (his mother died before I was born) carrying a military pistol belt, a holster with a Colt 45 in it. He said since I was the oldest of four grandsons, I was now the owner of the 45-something I already knew since my grandfather told me this before he died. I didn't shoot that pistol till I was a couple years older. when I was 13 I received a browning 22 rifle and at 15 a remington pump shotgun but I already was winning skeet shoots with my father's guns. when I turned 18 my father gave me a new 1911. At 19 I had several skeet guns including the Perazzi I won nationals with. I turned 21 in January of 1980. When I came home for spring break, I went to a department store that had a good selection of guns and bought a Walther PP.

 

I saved my school lunch money and my brother bought my single shot .22 rifle when I was 12. I refurbished it myself last year. I’ve had it more than 40 years. I eventually acquired a Remington 1100 20ga at 17.

 

Teaching a 12 year old how to shoot a gun is far less dangerous than teaching them to drive at 16.

 

Mainly because evil has always existed in this world.

 

Ha... memories. I had long forgotten the 22-410 I acquired when I first got to college, but think mine was an old scoped Stevens. It was my bump around trunk gun along with a Browning Challenger .22 I had, both for pot game. Not my first guns, but they were well used by this poor college student.

 

My dad had the 20 guage version, which aparently led him to believe they were both his and he sold mine while i was at college...

 

A certain dicky bird from down under, thinks a common garden variety bolt action .22 L.R. rifle is a weapon of mass destruction !!!
lol !

 

The first gun I was ever given was a K98 with intact stamps. (The person who raised me used the weapon itself in combat)

It was my sixth or seventh birthday.

I inherited the rest of what he brought to the states when I turned 18.

 

Considering I did both with my girls, I would agree.

 

Ayuh,..... Dad bought me a Stevens 12ga. single shot shotgun for the huntin' season of My 10th year,.....

Still got it,.... Still hate it,.... Worst mistake Dad ever made,.....
Caused me to have a flinch, that I've been fightin' to loose for the last 1/2 century,.....

 

Many people, even seasoned shooters can develop a flinch particularly when beginning to shoot new guns with more powerful rounds than has been the normal fodder for that person. On the extreme side and begin shooting one of the powerful pistol cartridges like a S&W .500 with a heavy bullet out of a short (<4”) barrel and developing a flinch is more common than many might suppose. One reason why if you carry such a piece for bear protection, say in AK, you’d be advised to practice with it to know how well you manage it.
While many seasoned shooters probably know how to train themselves or another to overcome the flinch flu, I will will share how I was taught when in single digits of age. Have a partner chamber a round in what ever gun you are using so you don’t know if a round is chambered or not. When shooting concentrate on sighting and trigger pull. At or near the point of trigger break on an empty chamber, if you have a flinch, you will easily see if you anticipate the shot. If alone, you can do it yourself using the Russian Method with a revolver (one chamber loaded, and spin) or with a semi auto intermixing dummy training rounds in the mag. Lasers can help when dry firing, but IME aren’t as effective. The flu can be cured.
I periodically test myself just as maintenance insurance, particularly with some of the gunsrounds I shoot like my .480 Roger AK fishing companion or switching from .45acp to .450smc loads.
Others may have their opinions.

 

I grew up in a gun free home. Dad doesn’t hunt and never saw a need to own a gun. I bought my first gun at 27. My dad is 74 now and is considering buying a gun since he is not as formidable as he once was.

 

Since you were taught to shoot and I hope handle a firearm safely and correctly, I find it interesting that you decided not to educate your children.

 

I learned to shot with a Marlin .22 at age 10. Hunted squirrel and shot turtles in the pond. At 15 I received a .410 shotgun for rabbit and believe it or not used it a few times for skeet....all I had. At age 18 I received a .30-06 for big game hunting like deer and elk.

 

I had a guy tell me when he shot a rifle, he held it away from his shoulder because it kicked too much.

He would not believe me when I told him that not shouldering the stock properly,
worsens felt recoil.

 

I've run into such people. I just shake my head. You can't educate purposeful ignorance.

 

That’s when you hand them a 12G highbrass and say, “I don’t believe you, show me”.

Then get ready to drive someone to the hospital for a broken collar bone.

 

Do you remember the Marlin bolt action
Goose gun ?
Variable choke, magazine fed, not expensive, a bloke bought one at a Gun Show, and I sold him high brass cartridges for it.
Well, he fired it once, then turned to me and said;
"If you get this P.O.S. out of my sight fast, you can have it free for nothing !-!-
That Shotgun near crippled him !!!
Hit his shoulder like a Mack Truck © !!!

 

Well, if he were strong enough to keep it off his shoulder, it wouldn't kick as much. however, if he were that strong, the kick wouldn't hurt much either.