How old were you...

[Joel]

At 8 or 9 I was killing birds at my grandparent's house with a Red Ryder. I upgraded to a Crossman pump pellet rifle when I was probably 10 or 11 and then the rabbits started dying too. I was probably 15 when I started hunting with a firearm and shot lots of rabbits and a few squirrels. I was in my 20's before I killed a deer.

 

[giles]

Found the pic of my first kill... Dressed in my old mans flannel and notice the big hole in the bird. I had to back up two steps to shoot it, lol. Lesson learned...


I also found the pic of a deer that I took with a knife. That's for another thread though...lol

 

[Buckmaster]

My first kill..... was a blackbird in my sandbox. I smashed it with a steel Tonka dump truck in 1977. I was 6.

I got my Crossman 760 BB gun for Christmas of 1978 and the killing spree hasn't stopped yet.

 

[Hortontoter]

My first kills were done with a Red Ryder, probably around the age of seven. My dad wouldn't allow us to carry a shotgun or .22 until we were sixteen. My first shotgun was a .410 Iver Johnson single shot. My first kill was a fox squirrel in a woodlot near my parents house. After my sixteenth birthday every critter in Suffield, Ohio was in danger. I remember using old pieces of black stovepipe that I shortened and bent to use as crow decoys. It worked, I killed quite a few over those odd looking pieces of stovepipe.

My first deer was taken in 1975 in Preston County West Virginia with a Ruger 77V in .243.

 

[Jason Short]

I was 5 when I started with a bb gun, around 10 I started using a 12 gauge and a .22

 

[huntn2]

24 for me as I didn't get into hunting until I married into it.

 

[Bigslam51]

This Crosman is what I got my first kill with. I believe it was a blackbird that I shot out of a pine tree in the back yard when I was 6. My grandpa got me this rifle along with a few other during my childhood. All I know is no bird was safe when I was on the prowl with my pellet gun. I learned to shoot them well and hardly ever missed a bird. There's probably at least 75 birds buried around my parents house LOL.

 

[COB-TY]

Was 13. Had worked baling hay, saved my money, and ordered a J. C. Higgins bolt action 20 Ga. from the Sears and Roebuck catalog. Hold three shells. Was the best single shot gun I ever owned. Could not work that bolt fast enough to get a second shot. We had a big Hickory grove up the creek from home. Terrorized squirrels and that fall and turned on the rabbits and pheasants after that. My first drop was a big ole buck squirrel.

 

[giles]

My daughter missed her first ditch tiger a little while ago... I told her it was ok, she can clean the trash up in the morning. She didn't think that was funny, lol.