How long have you been ......

[sleeperNY]

Bought my first in 1975,a flintlock in 76 and it has been almost flint ever sense.

Jim

 

[ihuntsnook]

Bought my first cap and ball revolver in 1968 at Englishtown Auction in New Jersey. A brand new 44 caliber brass framed gun that came with a brass mold for $40. Today it's a crime here to have one locked in the trunk of your car unless you are going to or coming from a shooting range. Times have changed.

 

[Loyalist Dave]

Started shooting at Yankees when I was 15. Now I shoot at Continentals..., must be some subconscious dislike of the blue uniforms. Anyway, 35 years.

LD

 

[Robert Egler]

My first gun was a flintlock, age 14. I learned to shoot with a flintlock. I went to modern guns exclusively about age 20, and rediscovered black powder about age 30. Shot black powder exclusively for about 12 years or so. I'm 55 now, and I shoot a mix of modern and black powder.

 

[VEARL]

Ever since Moses was eating sardines at the Dead Sea.
About 55 yrs now. Before unleaded gas and indoor plumbing. :haha:

 

[rabjr]

Someone gave me an import Remington 58 in .36 cal one day in 1973....four years later I saved enough to buy a Ruger OA and all the fixings...

 

[ScottGustaveson]

Started with a .45 cal CVA kit in the early 80's. Shot hundreds of ground squirrels all over California. Most fun I have ever had. Wish I Still had that gun. I was shooting things that my friends couldn't hit with their .22's.

I wounder how many started with CVA's?

 

[vern faulkner]

I was about 13 or 14 the first time I shot a black powder (flint) rifle. It was a unknown make that we had down on the farm. My uncle Bill taught me how to load and fire it. I don't know exactly what happened, but something went "snap" in my mind. I've been shooting them every since and I'm 64 now. Unlike some other things, I've never regretted one nickle that I've spent on black powder shooting.

Vern

 

[VTdeerhunter]

Got a picture somewhere of me age 4, shooting my dad's Classic Arms New Orleans Ace....that makes this season 42 years. Still have the gun, it's in the pile of to-be-fixed (broken grip)...come to think of it all of his CA kits are in that pile (pepperbox, snake eyes, duckfoot, twister) :idunno:

 

[ebiggs1]

I bought a TC Hawken (cap lock) in the early 1970's. Now I am 24 muzzle loaders later but the first flintlock was about 5 years ago. Also a TC Hawken but today it has several cousins in the gun safe to keep it company.

 

[cynthialee]

I was 12 or 13 when I first got to shoot a BP pistol. It wasn't until I was 44 that I shot a BP rifle for the first time. So this year I started shooting rifles. But I have had a good working knowledge of loading, shooting and servicing my revolvers since I was a kid.

 

Been at it, at some level, for 47 years and still learning.
Mark

 

[hanshi]

47 or 48 years; hard to remember.

 

[Snakebite]

35 Years. 1st rifle was a custom .54 Hawken, still shoots where you point it.

 

[Rev_William]

My Dad got his 1st rifle when I was about 10 and I got my 1st rifle when I was about 11 so 40 yrs or there about

 

[nkbj]

36 years.

 

[Stony]

Bought my first BP firearm in 1975, a Navy Arms 1861 Navy. Had a lot of fun with that cap & ball pistol. Good times ever since with BP.

 

[Tumblernotch]

Shot my first ML in 1973 when I was 14. Bought my first in '74, a new Zouave for $69.00 in a Heck's Department Store. Immediately got into CW reenacting. Got into flintlocks in '78.

 

[Electric Miner]

I was 12 years old when I took my first deer with an 1873 trapdoor Springfield loaded with bp cartridges. That would have been in 1975? Or 1976?

 

[Grullaguy]

I started off with a CVA Hawken way back in 2011.

Now I also have a Pedersoli Kentucky and a custom made trade gun as well.

I have used a pound of powder a month since I started, so I guess I have got my feet wet. :haha: