Who started it for you....

[DeusVult]

Who started the addiction?
Growing up everyone had that one person that got you hooked on this wonderful passion.
For me it was my twin brother. Dad bought the guns, but it was my brother that was always game to go off and spend all day shooting along the railroad tracks. Cans, bottles, birds, rabbits, all fell in our sights. Half a century later, I don't shoot too much game. But I definitely do love to hear that lovely sound of lead on steel!

[cosmic]

My Dad!! He let me purchase a .22 Glenfield model 60 from Montgomery Wards when I had my Catholic Confirmation.. We shot it the basement of our house in Chicago!! He would have me stand at the top of the stairs and roll marbles down a grooved board and I couldn't believe he was picking them off !!

[Roadworthy]

My ground squirrel infestation got me started along the way.  I decided my twelve gauge was overkill.  Bob Werner (Charlie da Tuna) suggested I try GTA and the rest as they say is history.

[avator]

I received a Model 25 daisy for my 8 or 9th birthday... don't remember which. But I do remember not having it long... it was taken away the day I came home with a robin's nest full of eggs.
I claimed they were abandoned but that didn't fly... 

[tennx]

Me…..

[sekiar]

My mom and dad, who made a very young boy super happy with a birthday gift of a new Daisy model 25 BB gun.  Charles

[ranchibi]

Rats...LOL! Had one get in the house and a couple in the garage. I could trap some but some were too smart so had to get those another way...hence pellet guns! I have definitely culled the local population so I mostly just shoot targets but now and again seasonally they come thru....so I have to give the rats credit for introducing me into this wonderful sport/hobby.

[Doug Wall]

A real sweetheart named Daisy.

[desmobob]

My dad got me started with a Daisy Buffalo Bill 1894.

MANY years later, nostalgia and an interest in all firearms led me to this forum.  The wonderful folks here got me hooked.

Bob

[bantam5s]

My dad bought me a Crosman powermaster 66 when I was 7 and I've been shooting airguns constantly since then.

[Napi]

My dad got me started with a Daisy Targeteer bb pistol... I was 9 years old. James Bond had nothin on me

[Madd Hatter]

My dad bought me 1 in 1956 when I was 4. A Daisy of course! Had it until I didn't close the cocking lever and my middle finger was smashed. Don't think I had it very long and have no idea what happened to it. Don't really think I missed it at that point.😂🤣

[ezman604]

I started myself down the airgun road. I worked all summer mowing lawns to make enough money to buy a Revelation PumpMaster 760 at our local Western Auto. That was in 1967. My renewed passion into airguns was brought on by our GTA Forums founding father Gene. After seeing some of his projects and experiments I was hooked again.

[PasadenaMike]

My late Uncle John:) I miss him. He gave me a Diana break barrel when I was maybe 7 and lit the fire. I have a picture with it still to this day. I wish he was around to see the mess he’s created lol joking. I wish he was around to see all the cool PCPs these days.

[JEFFPPC]

Joe Biden and the Communist American Gov't. Yes you read it right. When the Planned Demic started I figured that summer there would be no centerfire bench matches do to rules against gatherings. I decided to get a good springer to shoot in the yard with. AllI would need was pellets. So I did some research and bought a TX200. So in the last year and a half I found a weekly winter match a half hour away, I started a monthly match at the indoor Range I shoot at daily, and I am making plans with a group from about 40 miles away to have a monthly 25 and 50 yard springer match this summer. It's a great sport.

[kev92411]

My dad also got me started - I got a Daisy as soon as I was big enough to cock it. He then got me a .410 around age 10 to go rabbit hunting with him.  As an adult living inside city limits, I found airguns scratched that shooting itch in the short term as trips to the range usually required a dedicated period of time to undertake. I now I have quite a collection of backyard friendly airguns.

[Blowpipe Sam]

My mom was anti BB gun.  My dad went along with her.  But my grandfather had a Daisey model 25 and a Slavia 618 I was "permitted" to use when I was at his house.  Since my grandparents only lived a couple of miles across town it was kind of a sham.  On my 14th birthday my grandfather unveiled a brand new Crosman model 1400.  I knew it was mine!  I'd been staring at that gun in the case at the FRM feed store for a year!  I don't know if my mom ever did figure it out,

[Hoosier Daddy]

50 years ago my Grand-Dad gifted me his sons 160 Varient II... while my uncle was in 'Nam.
Dad, an ex-Marine (Korean War Vet), set me up a shooting range in the basement and taught me how... the rest is history.

[Matchstickshooter]

 My Dad and older brother were hunters, so I was brought up around guns. My Dad's buddy owned the local gunshop.
 Anyway, when I was 8 or 10 I got a lever action bb gun for my birthday. Don't remember it being R.R. so it must have been a Crosman.
  Dad took me into the woods behind the house and set up a target area.
 He threaded a spring clothespin on a string between two little saplings and the clothespin held a candy Neeco Wafer for a target.
 I had to shoot the wafer, but  "don't hit the clothespin".    (ate some!)
Fast forward....

Then in my late 50's,I was laid off (again) from the machine shop. At a yardsale I found a working Crosman 760 at a yardsale. Barrel and tube were almost solid rust, missing sights.  $1.50   At another sale I found a little 4x Daisy scope for .50.

  Cleaned up as best I could, it worked fine and was a chipmunk getter.
Down the rabbit hole I went, as next find was a B3!

[Back_Roads]

 I was born with this condition, my earliest memories are of guns, my life goal is to acquire airguns, and enjoy them all.