Claude's survey

[renovato]

I started when I was 12 or 13. That was 30 years or so back. I started with a little double barrel pistol. Down the road I picked up a BP revolver and rifle. For years they were just "other" guns I shot also.

I always had a passion for black powder, but was too busy trying to buy up all the military lookalikes before Clinton's ban made them hard to get. Always too busy trying to build a new custom bolt action, or busy working on pistol skills for competition. Always too busy chasing that perfect score in whatever form of shooting that held my interest at the time.

In the late '90's I began growing tired of some of my modern guns and started spending a lot more quality time with the front stuffers. The passion became the strongest addiction I've ever had and I'm loving every minute of it. I still have many more modern guns than I have black powder ones, but now the modern guns are those "other" guns that get taken along sometimes.

 

[RC]

ah gees, 'rithmetic again...let's see that's subtraction,ole take away, lets see borrow from the tens,shoot a 0, borrow from hundreds, shoot another 0,borrow from the thousands,okay so that makes that 9,next one 9, next one 9, dang! didn't need to borrow,okay that's 4, next, oh shoot gotta borrow now... okay calculator/... 27, lets see add the answer to the number taken away, yeah that's right!I be 27 when I started! daddy gave me the first ml he bought,cause he found a beautiful 54 t/c..still got his... now i got...a bunch! phew, ole math, that's tough! :thumbsup: RC

 

[Holley]

Welp, I mite naugt be sartin, but warent you showen up at more than a few of those old NAPR Rocky Mountain rondys back in the 70's?

Ok....lets not start a pole/poll on how old Tipis realy is...but you are right on that. Those were the days. And I was just a young little lady... :winking:

 

[Bob J]

Dad took me into his den when I was 13 and showed me two rifles; a .45 CVA over/under swivel gun, and a .50 TC Hawken with a pretty tiger-striped stock. Told me I could choose one as a Christmas present Without hesitation I chose the TC Hawken. Carried that rifle on a lot of good hunts with Dad. It's a tackdriver today...

 

[faw3]

Back in the good ol day's huh? Seems like that was a good time for a lot of us. Need more people to do the survey and post on here to get a good cross section of people and time, ( as Im finding out what guns were standing out then for what age grp.) Fred :hatsoff: With only 66 in as of now thats not a great number to use Yet!

 

[walruskid1]

fred, i started out with a lyman 1858 kit and a cva kentucky rifle kit. both came from the log cabin gun shop about 1975-76.

 

[Tumblernotch]

Well I was 8 or almost 9 when I started huntin' squirrels with my Daddy's Mod. 37 12 ga. And I started shootin' muzzleloaders at the ripe old age of 14. And the first one I shot was an old .50 cal sideslapper. That was in 1973. After shooting OP's (Other People's) for a while, I bought my first, a $69 Zouave in a Heck's Department store. They didn't even ask if I was 18. Course I was big for my age...and back then, around here nobody really cared.