The Ghost Posted February 9, 2013 Report Share Posted February 9, 2013 Having just got another air rifle after many years I was thinking back to my childhood. I was about ten years old when I saw an old bloke shooting at our local waste dump, he had a small terrier dog with him and a gun. I said "mister what you doing" he said, Shooting rats...at this point his dog was going daft in the bottom of a dip throwing rats in the air while the old bloke was shooting those the dog was missing. I had never seen anything like this in my life and was hooked, I got an air rifle and my Dad learned me to shoot it (ex forces) and I spent many a great day ratting learning from a natural legend. Can you remember what got you in to shooting? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pegasus bridge Posted February 9, 2013 Report Share Posted February 9, 2013 My grandad, whose coffin I carried on monday did. He moved from rural wales in his teens to birmingham, got me into shooting, he had an air rifle which as a small boy was a thing of wonder, he was a countryman at heart, he took me down the canal (in birmingham) to shoot rats on the opposite bank, loved shooting eversince. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisjpainter Posted February 9, 2013 Report Share Posted February 9, 2013 I learnt to shoot at school in the Combined Cadet Force, but a good friend of mine had always shot too, so flicking through his magazines kept my interest going. he passed his HW95k on to me and that was that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
countryman Posted February 9, 2013 Report Share Posted February 9, 2013 As young boy i started watching Jack Hargreaves, and my first shooting book was Pigeon shooting by the great Archie Coats. I was hooked for ever more, great men. Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
secretagentmole Posted February 9, 2013 Report Share Posted February 9, 2013 My father stopping the pheasants from the local shoot eating all the veg seeds he planted in the garden! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fenboy Posted February 9, 2013 Report Share Posted February 9, 2013 I started with my late grandfather, a cracking shot and used a 20 bore when they were not fashionable as today , I can remember his lab getting on the scent of a bird and him handing me the gun for the first time and saying get ready , the dog flushed a hen pheasant and I got it with my first ever shot ! That was me hooked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Mat Posted February 9, 2013 Report Share Posted February 9, 2013 My dad liked air rifles so he bought one and we did alot of shooting with them for quite a few years, unfortunally most of them now sit in the cabinet unused. Got into shotguns to clear some rabbits on the farm i worked on as the air rifle couldnt get moving rabbits... Took up wildfowling due to the pinks, they always come over my house and that wink wink got me interested! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gedney Posted February 9, 2013 Report Share Posted February 9, 2013 Simple answer ,Jack Hargreaves ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kes Posted February 9, 2013 Report Share Posted February 9, 2013 (edited) I started aged about 7 - heinkel .177, taught by my Dad We went rabbit shooting with a borrowed twelve on a local farm. I was given my first shot at 11 with the twelve and killed a rabbit - been doing it and loving it ever since. Also had Mr Crabtree, watched Jack H and have all of Archie Coates books - videos. The calm away from the storm for me and no doubt many others. Edited February 9, 2013 by Kes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul taylor Posted February 9, 2013 Report Share Posted February 9, 2013 Learnt to shoot in army cadets and hunt with a mates HW80 at about 13 bought HW77 then sharp inova when I started work at 16 couldn't miss with sharp after learning with HW had a long break from shootin but now relearning with my s510 feel like kid again loving getting perms and hunting again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GingerCat Posted February 9, 2013 Report Share Posted February 9, 2013 Gat gun, I was 10. Following that I had a webly typhoon (the proper shotgund then an hw77 by thae age of 14. Dad got my started. Played in the army for a while and had a shotgun by 21. Never looked back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Livefast123 Posted February 9, 2013 Report Share Posted February 9, 2013 (edited) Plinking in the back garden with my old man using his Gamo Expo .22, setting up cans, plant pots and whatever else we could find to make a range. I remember marvelling at my fathers marksmanship and I was hooked. Moved on to my 'own' airgun in my teens starting with a Gamo CF20 and when that was stolen in a burglary I purchased a Falcon FN12 which I owned and shot up until a year ago when I sold it to fund some larger rifles. Just thinking about those days makes me smile There is nothing like shooting to bring father and son together. Edited February 9, 2013 by Livefast123 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flynny Posted February 9, 2013 Report Share Posted February 9, 2013 My old fella, Atb Flynny Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigman Posted February 9, 2013 Report Share Posted February 9, 2013 My grandad was a keeper I loved all the aspects of it from looking after the pens to beating every other sat during the season , nothing else even comes close to them days spent with him , god I wish he was still here , Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
la bala Posted February 9, 2013 Report Share Posted February 9, 2013 I got hooked on shooting at about the age of 5 years, when i broke the restraining strings holding the corks to my pop gun, half a pocket of small stones and i was away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted February 9, 2013 Report Share Posted February 9, 2013 stretched out on the sacks of corn with my 2 mates in the barn in winter overlooking the stock yard full of sparrows and starlings and shooting them with a 177 diana and smoking no 6 and sometimes a cadet...woodbines made us turn green.....blowing bubbles with gum and talking about the only girl in the village........... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bullet1747 Posted February 9, 2013 Report Share Posted February 9, 2013 Was very good in the forces ,thought I'd give it a bash lot easier in the army must say Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nobby Posted February 10, 2013 Report Share Posted February 10, 2013 Seeing my old man take a crow at 2miles ( that's what it seemed like in reality prob 40 yds) then untold guns in the army. Now I'm just plain greedy and like free food. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garden gun Posted February 12, 2013 Report Share Posted February 12, 2013 CCF at school and then 16 years in the military. Taught Mrs gun and the boys to shoot too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bi9johnny Posted February 12, 2013 Report Share Posted February 12, 2013 Was about 5/6 and my brother bought me a double barrel gun with those sticky darts in and it came with a wind up rabbit , I used to set it off on the kitchen floor and while it hopped would knock it over with the darts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokinggun Posted February 13, 2013 Report Share Posted February 13, 2013 My dad used to tell me all about how he grew up shooting on a few farms with shotguns, mainly getting the rabbits which I loved hearing about then when I was maybe 5 or so he got me a g10 air pistol which he kept and I used under his supervision plinking in the garden using a old headboard for a backstop, As I got older he bought me a air rifle for plinking together, now he comes with me when i go out shooting either for pigeons or clays and we bond just like when we were younger and i absolutely love shooting, as my wife says its not my hobby its my obsession. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hedd-wyn Posted February 13, 2013 Report Share Posted February 13, 2013 Started off shooting my grandad's empty whisky bottles in hs coal yard when I was a kid with a Diana Gat style pistol. Then when I was a bit oder my old man bought me a Cometa air rifle for shooting crows. He was a marksman for the police back then so I got the interest in guns from him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
camokid Posted February 13, 2013 Report Share Posted February 13, 2013 started very young tagging along with my brother down the river shooting pretty much anything that moved :no: he then bought me my first gun a gat gun from there it has been a obsession ever since.. iv had some sort of gun all my life and just today iv just been given a webly tempest oh the memory's come back holding this little gun i took my first ever duck with one head shot from about 10 foot and i made a fire and had him for dinner in a local wildlife park :lol: i was 12 ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shoota Posted February 15, 2013 Report Share Posted February 15, 2013 Had a gat aged about 12 and worked in the low house on a skeet range between ages 14-16 now aged 39 I have just purchased my 1st riffle a TX200 mk2 now as soon as I can shoot straight the bunny's will be getting a headache (fingers crossed) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rabbiter Posted February 15, 2013 Report Share Posted February 15, 2013 watching jack hargreaves and reading copies of shooting times,thats what got me bitten by the bug,got my first ferret at 13,never looked back,i get the same feeling now(42) as i did then when i go out,cant sleep the night before either,lol...............DAZ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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