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I can totally relate to your "upbringing" got my first 22 (Remington single shot) at age 9 when I was 10 Dad got me an 870 in 20ga, After that when I was 12 got my first 30-06. All of these I still have and still enjoy shooting, (although by age 16 I had to put a recoil pad on the 870 to move it a bit further away from my nose. Dad was a ww2 Vet, Chief of Police of my home town of Bishop Calif. It was a great place for a kid to grow up in, miles of area for 3 kids with 22's to spend endless hours in the summer shooting whatever we could, challenging each other on our marksmanship. Like it only counted if you hit the sparrow in the head, that type of challenges and challenges accepted.I was born and raised on a small horse outfit outside of Moscow, ID. My biological dad was a writer for Field & Stream, owned a chain of gun shops in the region, and was a Marine sniper. Stepdad was a rancher, then a cop, then FBI, then Chief of Police.
I got my first .22 at age 10 and was let loose in the Idaho woods alone with my trusty firearm. By age 13, I was riding horseback 50 miles a day in the mountains with a .22 Ruger Single-Six on my hip, alone, and would camp out in the woods occasionally.
I don't remember ever not knowing about guns or having one handy.
Seems a lot of folks these days grew up without firearms and got into them later in life.
I admit to sometimes not understanding their perspectives or issues with firearms and being a bit insensitive about certain subjects with folks like that.
Just wondering who else here had a proper upbringing like me.
I was raised with firearms, When I was in high school, many of us had out shotguns and rifles in the car so that after school during hunting season we could hurry out to our favorite spot for an evening hunt. Funny how back then guns were simply a way of life and no one ever had a problem with it. I remember one of my buddies getting a 41 mag and bragging about it in class, the teacher asked if he had it in his car, he replied yes so the teacher asked him to go get it so that he could check it out. The 41 was passed around for all of us to oggle and wish over.Imagine what would happen today if the same were to happen???
Brought up my children the same way, can't say that the grand children have it so good but we are doing our best under the current circumstances.