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Hope this has not been discussed before.

Me, home made catapult, home made bow and arrows, air pistol then air rifle. Just seemed like a natural progression. On the local farm with the air gun one day, and an informal clay shoot was been set up in one of the fields, had a walk over - and as they say - the rest is history, hooked for life.

Phil*

Oh god phil, that's a hard one.

usual toy guns and westerns, FN SLR's (probably would be banned now).....cap guns, air guns.....real guns.....what better way of turning money into noise...

Golf match was rained off!

Sorry about the swear word Ovenpaa.

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No idea really. No one in my family is a shooter or service man/woman.

I've always liked "guns" as a kid. You know; water-pistols, cap-guns (I think I was the last generation to have 'em), Nerf, dart-guns etc.

When I hit 15 I got a book, it was just a "coffee table" book, an illustrated encyclopaedia of firearms. I started reading it from cover to cover. Every now and then, well, actually, a lot of the time, terms and mechanisms would be discussed that I wouldn't understand. Thus, I had to get another book to explain what that term meant, and that new book lead to another term or mechanism, and so another book, and so on...

I hit 16 and decided to seek a gunclub, so I literally rang up directory enquires and asked for the nearest gunclub. The nearest one was one town over and it was an air-gun and .22 club. That started me shooting. After that I joined my current club at 17 and have been shooting full-bore ever since, and I'm 26 this week - though I don't shoot anywhere near as much as I like. It's a mixture of range-access and funds, i'm afraid.

Hmm.. Gat air pistols, .22 Air rifles, joined a small bore rifle club at 16, no idea why though. Then added shotguns into the equation and shot clays for several years, shot pistol for a bit then neighbour started full bore and I tagged long one day and here I am wtfwtf

Shooting seabirds in Greenland when I was 13-14 years old, no idea what kind of birds they were, one day out on the sea got handed a .22 and that was it

Shot them, plucked and cooked them, need quite a few for a meal.

So of course being on a small boat surrounded by icebergs shooting at flying birds, I did not hit many during my years up there, however I did hit an iceberg a few times which I was told is not a good idea when you are in a small boat

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christel wrote: however I did hit an iceberg a few times which I was told is not a good idea when you are in a small boat

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Why, do they shoot back?

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...the voices in my head....

saddler wrote:...the voices in my head....

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So I married someone who shot Arctic Tern's mostly because she could..