Shooting for how long??

[justaguy]

Long enough I should be alot better than I am.

[chudrockz]

I'm 39, started shooting when I was about ten with a single shot .22lr, squirrel hunting and target practice with my brother and dad.

[Holland&Holland]

First Daisy BB gun at age 6
.22s at about 8 (supervised)
My very own first .22 at 10
Shotguns about 12
Rifles about 14
Bought my first centerfire rifle at 15
First handgun I shot was a Super Blackhawk in .44 mag at about the same time, used to use it to drop hogs for butchering

[Big and Tasty]

I am 40 now and received my first Crosman BB gun when I was 12.

[XDM45]

I shoot for as long as I have ammo.

[Scratch]

The only reason I figured I needed a job at age 15, was to save enough money to buy a gun. Bought my first gun, a Mossberg 500 12 gauge with that money... still have it at age 42 now.

[Pinnacle]

32 Years now...

Pistol Competition and Training for more than 19 of those years.

[dlstarry]

Started with BB gun at 7 yrs of age. & for a total of 54 yrs. now, & still Love It, but the
old eyeballs can't see the sights very good anymore. But I still can make as much noise .

[hal]

I guess I am the youngster....Only been shooting for 6 months, started shooting at 60. And I had never even touched a gun before last November.

After getting my permit to carry, 11 Tactical Lessons at Bills Run Club, and 5,500 rounds I am pretty accurate, although slow. I can get 100% of my shots in the inner two rings of a NRA D-1 Target, with a Glock 23.

[floydster]

I am 76 years old, been shooting and reloading for 65 years, started reloading on an old Dunlap drill press when I was 10 years old.
Floydster

[cobb]

... started reloading on an old Dunlap drill press when I was 10 years old.

Never heard of a Dunlap drill press, maybe the term "drill press" does sound a bit strange to me for reloading. Care to give some of us kids a bit of info or history on this?
I say kid as in respect.
I am 56 and was shooting a .22 rimfire before I owned a bicycle and was shooting a bolt action Savage 20 ga. many years before I had a drivers license. In the late 60's and into the early 70's a farm boy could get a farm drivers permit, I think is was called that then, when a 15 year old could drive a licensed farm vehicle on the road. That was a big plus for a farming family, so many of us where driving tractors at 12 and then at 15 we could legally drive grain trucks and farm equipment on the local roads.
So shooting guns, as kids we had did to for many reasons, many times for fun and other times because dad said I had to do so, for many reasons. Depending on what you consider how long, I guess 45 years or so with a DNR certification, a few years or so more as farm kid.

I digress. I would, and I think others would be be interested in a bit of info on a Dunlap drill press for loading.

[ramblinoak1]

52 this year started with a .22 and a hand full of shells in 1966....