First experience w/ guns, & does it affect your choices now

[Seismic Sam]

My mother had a pump .22LR rifle from somewhere deep in her past, which was the first gun I shot off the rear porch when I was 5 years old.. I liked it a lot, and my dad subsequently bought a Colt .22LR Woodsman semi-auto which I also shot a lot. Still got the pistol. First gun I bought in my own right was a 9mm Browning Hi-Power when I turned 21 (Retail price $114.50) which I also still have. Considering the hicap capacity of the Browning, I never got into revolvers until the Smith X-Frame came out, except for a Smith 617 for my daughter. I kinda doubt the Woodsman and my semi-auto choices are related, as carry and a lot of factors aren't something you think about when you're 6 years old.

[DitchDR]

My first expierence with guns was my dads Winchester Model 250 .22 LR that he got when he was a kid. Its a tube fed lever action rifle. As far as having an affect on my choices, because of that I credit my love of lever actions. I wish my dad still had that rifle. With that rifle, he taught me about accuracy and making clean one shot kills. When we would go rabbit hunting I would get one bullet. When I got a rabbit, I got another bullet. If I missed, I had to explain what I think happened. He was with me of course. To this day, I have only had to shoot one deer a second time. Other than that, everything has been one shot kills. Yes I have missed shot also. But I still think what could have I done differently.

[timwarner]

Does Tim still have his P7? Those are amazing fun to shoot.

Still got it, she's shot it. Didn't like the squeeze cocker.

[EAJuggalo]

Unlike almost all of you I didn't grow up around guns at all. I didn't shoot my first gun until I was 21, I shot a friends Sig P220. I went out and bought a Glock 31 about 6 months later and had a carry permit 8 months after that. The first rifle and first shotgun I fired were those that I purchased from members at both TCC and here.

[crbutler]

Started out with a 20 ga semiauto at age 13 for hunting ducks with my dad and grandpa, stayed with just waterfowl hunting until 24, then moved out from there. Brought my first handgun as a self defense piece and reading gun mags, decided to get in to practical pistol competition. Enjoyed the folks enough to stick with that for more than 13 years now. Seriously took up big game hunting, and that brought those guns into the realm of needing them.

The big budget buster for firearms for me is if some clown starts saying ban that gun- then I buy it. Schumer singlehandedly cost me a heck of a lot of money, the bum....

Basically, I enjoy shooting and when I get in to a new type of shooting, I buy the toys needed for the job. I don't think the fact that I started out duck hunting with a semiauto made my choices of guns what it is.