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Your start with guns.
7RiverMan7
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It's really surprising to me how many people haven't hunted that post on this forum.
What got all of you interested in guns?
I grew up hunting big game, small game, birds, varmints and anything else that happened along.
Never been a collector but how does a collector get started with guns if they have no hunting experience?
Military? Inheritance? Personal protection? Or just because it's your right?
No wrong answer, just wondering.
What got all of you interested in guns?
I grew up hunting big game, small game, birds, varmints and anything else that happened along.
Never been a collector but how does a collector get started with guns if they have no hunting experience?
Military? Inheritance? Personal protection? Or just because it's your right?
No wrong answer, just wondering.
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People who don't have the upbringing but still collect usually like mechanics. My friend is a Mercedes Master Tech, he loves pistols and has never hunted. His love of weaponry comes from his love of cars.
Collectors also get an interest in weaponry from the Wild West, Craftsmanship and value. Anything worth money will spark an interest.
The shooting sports have also introduced a lot of non hunters.
My first time shooting a firearm was with my uncle in Utah. He took my little brother and I when I was about 10. It was a browning 22 auto with bottom eject. He set up some bean bags on the hood of the car to help us keep the gun stable. One of the shells bounced off the hood of the car and into my shirt. I had a scar for about 4 years. However, the gun actually belonged to my great-grandfather. He later gave it to me before he passed away. It is by far, my favorite gun.
It's really surprising to me how many people haven't hunted that post on this forum.
What got all of you interested in guns?
A Winchester just seem to work better than the old bow and arrow setup we were use to.
Sort of like saying, "I know a lot of you have never eaten sushi but you like Japanese food"- just because we don't all like the same aspects of the sport doesn't mean we don't enjoy it.
Sort of like saying, "I know a lot of you have never eaten sushi but you like Japanese food"- just because we don't all like the same aspects of the sport doesn't mean we don't enjoy it.
No wrong answer, just wondering.
Never was a big hunter, cause my dad never had time. We had plenty of property to hunt on (wish I had done more now). My dad told us if he ever caught us killing an animal (even a squirrel) that we did not clean and eat, he would give us a whoopin that we would feel well into our 20's. I never violated that rule.
My 1st shooting experience was squirrel hunting w/a .410 shotgun at about age 6.
But what really fueled my interest in guns was my interest in American history. And listening to my dad and our neighbors telling war stories.
Dad is a Marine Chosin Reservior, Korean War vet. When I was young, our next door neighbor was an WW-2 Pattons 3rd Army vet.
They would talk about the charactoristics of varios WW-2 weapons. And I was an intent listener.
Watching war movies, Dad was always one to point out Hollywood inaccuracy's and tell how it really was. What incoming mortars sounded like etc.
Anyway, Dad was a travelng salesman for all of my childhood. And was generally only home on weekends. He didn't have time to take us hunting very often. We went some, but not much.
But my interest in history lead to an interest in historical guns. And therefore to gun collecting.
Another factor was that in young adulthood, I could afford milsurps and old guns much better than I could new ones. And from the start, even while still in high school, I got into acquiring old broken guns (because of my age, no one would sell me on my own, working guns) and trying to fix them.
Old habits die hard. Even to this day I have little interest in new modern shiney guns. Altho I do own a few.
I like old, well worn and used guns better. And most of my "collection" consists of broken guns I bought cheap, then repaired. Occasionally I have "restored" some. But I actually like the honestly acquired worn finishes better than brand new looking.
So that's the story of this gun nut that doesn't hunt.
I know it was you with the long lens on the tripod, over by the big oak.
I warn you - FIND SOMEONE ELSE.
Doug
It's really surprising to me how many people haven't hunted that post on this forum.
What got all of you interested in guns?
I grew up hunting big game, small game, birds, varmints and anything else that happened along.
Never been a collector but how does a collector get started with guns if they have no hunting experience?
Military? Inheritance? Personal protection? Or just because it's your right?
No wrong answer, just wondering.
Grew up shooting my dads old Drilling rifle he brought from Germany when he immigrated. It really caught on when he bought me a Ruger single 6 at age 8. Too bad it was eaten by a freak locust plague. I do not own any firearms any more. All were lost in a plethora of freak accidents.
I just come here for the recipes.
tom
Guess she was right![:D]
Lance
We, my brothers and I carried BB guns for 2 or 3 years, and had to exhibit safe handling of our "weapons" at all times.
Then graduated to a .410. After that we were on our own.
Bought my first center fire at age 14. It was a mil surplus .30 cal carbine, that is all I remember about that gun. Wish I had it back.
I was more interested in self defense. I was hit by a drunk driver and paralyzed from the waist down and started to worry about being vulnerable to crime. A friend of mine (who was a client at the time) took me to a local range and got me started. The next day we went to a gun shop and I bought my first gun.
Who knew I would enjoy it?
My little Tomcat .32 branched out to two shotguns, a rifle, and a .357 Magnum as well.
Are you the one building the dossiers ??
I know it was you with the long lens on the tripod, over by the big oak.
I warn you - FIND SOMEONE ELSE.
Doug
Don't worry, your all talk and I know it. We only wasted a couple of days observing you before we realized the only person you endanger is yourself.[;)]
Just a little side note...
I have a pretty strong stomach but....
that little running man dance you do naked in front of the mirror at night, actually made me throw-up a little.[xx(]
You know what I'm talking about.
Years later ,when I was old enought to hunt,I took this old neighbor venison from the first deer I shot. I told him of how I would watch him out the bathroom window when I was too little to see out without standing on the edge of the tub. I told him what an impression he had made on that little kid looking out the window.I knew I would be hunter. I think I surprised him.We had a good talk.It was the first time I had ever talked to him. He was just a neighbor that you might wave at as you walked down the road. Never close because of the distance between our houses and the difference in age.
It was several years before I got my next deer,but I stopped in and gave him some more back straps from that one too. He was a nice old guy.
Rest in peace Mr Managold. I`m still hunting.
quote:Originally posted by Doug Wilson
Are you the one building the dossiers ??
I know it was you with the long lens on the tripod, over by the big oak.
I warn you - FIND SOMEONE ELSE.
Doug
Don't worry, your all talk and I know it. We only wasted a couple of days observing you before we realized the only person you endanger is yourself.[;)]
Just a little side note...
I have a pretty strong stomach but....
that little running man dance you do naked in front of the mirror at night, actually made me throw-up a little.[xx(]
You know what I'm talking about.
First, it's a religious ritual. It fogs the brains of the OBSERVERS.
I don't do it just for pleasure.
Are you the one with the green ball cap, the black derby, or the the porkpie ??
All your sophisticated surveillance equipment will get you NOWHERE.
I always drink my Kool-Aid and wear my tinfoil hat.
So there, commie !!
Doug
Then the Biggest of all Joined the Marines.
My dad was a gun enthusist and trader /tinkerer and bought me my first gun a winchester model 94 when I was born .When I was three he bought me a Winchester model 67 22 calibur rifle and started me shooting.When I turned 16 he gave me his fathers Winchester model 12 sixteen gauge with both barrels.
When I was in grade school I would take the 22 to school and put the rifle in the coat room and give the bolt and bullets to my teacher . when the bell rang at 3pm she would give me the bolt and bullets back so I could hunt rabbits on the way home [ I walked a little under 2 miles to school]in the overgrown field by an old barn .
When dad passed he left me several Shutzen rifles that he got out of the Prince of Bravarias summer place in Belgium. I have never shot them ,when they came through customs someone took a spring or some other small part out of them .
Growing up in West Virginia was great, game was plentyful and you didn't have to go very far to hunt. When Kennedy got shot it changed everything.My uncle was a guide on the Snake River in Idaho and we used to send rifles back and forth but that soon ended. They took away our gun rights and started making money out of worthless metal sanwiched between two layers of silver to give it the appearence or real money .
I still have the guns dad gave me and a few more . I gave my .22 target Mauser to a friends son about ten years ago. I belive that he will keep it to pass on to his kids. I gave my father in law my Winchester 101 and a first edition Thompson Center pistol and a copy of a 36 calibur Navy Colt built by Horase Dimmick that was picked up on the battlefield at Gettysburg.He and I used to stay at a friends ranch in Commanche Texas and shoot the place up . His friend that owned the ranch passed away a few years ago .So we don't go there anymore.
I went to Walmart today to pick up a brick of 22 so my wife and I could shoot the Colt SA 22 pistols this weekend and they were out .Went to the areas biggest gun store and they were out but did have one box of 100 CCI ,It might last us an hour if we streach it out. Boy O boy times have changed. Dad said that they took all the guns away from the people in Europe before they tried to take it over from them.