Who Had a Dad/Grandad That Shared Their Gun Hobby?

[ABNAK]

At this point it looks like my uncles kid is going to get a LOT of guns one day. Some of my students are gonna get a lot of swords and a few guns.

If it looks like I don't have enough candidates, I'll just start volunteering at the local shooting range to help new shooters and see if there are any kids who aren't 100% snot boogers. Might also visit the local vets home and see if there are any kids spending lots of time in the library studying the military histories of one of their relatives.

You think that is gonna expand the candidate list? Good luck! Not sure most of these kids nowadays have an interest (at least percentage-wise compared to our generation) in military history or military stuff in general. The local shooting range idea might serve you better.

I have another friend who's son is a sergeant in the Marine Corps and may be one I consider. Now my friend is an FFL and does gunsmithing so his son will likely inherit quite a few firearms anyway. The "kid" (25yo now) used to cut our grass in high school and is on his second enlistment. Good guy, not a drinker or party type of person, more into cars.

I mentioned that one of my nephews is gay and guns aren't his thing. My niece (his sister) is into shooting so perhaps there's another.

[armtx77]

Dad wasnt a gun person per say, but he was an avid upland hunter and had several 870's in 410/28/12 and a Browning Superposed.

My moms side of the family were big time fox and coyote hunters and I grew up around Rem 760's.

My safe is an eclectic mix of CZ 452's, Browning O/U's, HK pistols and various black rifles. It was growing up with dad practicing mounting and swinging shotguns every night for 5-10 minutes that really got me hooked and I do the same thing with my O/U's, drawing pistols, presenting and pressing the trigger. I do this so my son and daughter are not afraid of the sight of a firearm. The wife doesnt care for it, but she doesn't say much anymore.

[SteyrAUG]

You think that is gonna expand the candidate list? Good luck! Not sure most of these kids nowadays have an interest (at least percentage-wise compared to our generation) in military history or military stuff in general. The local shooting range idea might serve you better.

I have another friend who's son is a sergeant in the Marine Corps and may be one I consider. Now my friend is an FFL and does gunsmithing so his son will likely inherit quite a few firearms anyway. The "kid" (25yo now) used to cut our grass in high school and is on his second enlistment. Good guy, not a drinker or party type of person, more into cars.

I mentioned that one of my nephews is gay and guns aren't his thing. My niece (his sister) is into shooting so perhaps there's another.

I figure it's worth a shot. When I was 12 years old and doing the same thing, there were a couple other kids in there. Mostly thinking about people who would actually appreciate my WWI / WWII firearm collection.

[signal4l]

My dad took me to the range when I was 10. I shot his SW model 41. I was hooked. I developed a fascination with guns.

Bought a Ruger 10-22 when I was 16.

One of my old man's friends taught me to handload when I was in college. I quickly became the ammo supplier to my brothers, dad


10 years later I started working as a cop. Spent a few decades as firearms instructor, armorer.

My dad is 82 now. I took the day off a few weeks ago and took him to the gun club.

Next time we are going to shoot that model 41

[Stickman]

A few things happened when I turned 5. The first thing was me joining mixed martial arts, though at that time it wasn't called that. The second thing was I started spending weekends on a military range working firing drills.

Weapons were just considered a tool, and I was I spent a lot of time with a pellet gun, and even more with a BB gun because it was cheaper to shoot. My mom has shot people, and dad has put people down as well, so there was certainly no question about what weapons were around for. It wasn't like a family of killers, but the facts were the facts.

My heavy involvement with weapons came about a little later on in life, but even as a kid firearms and their use was a routine part of life.

[titsonritz]

Yes, it just was never considered a “hobby”. Dad is a Vietnam era USMC vet. I’ve been told but do not remember my first interaction with firearms. Untold thousands of rounds I through a 10/22 and 38s through an S&W 19 and Ruger Security-Six, Mini 14, Winchester Model 12. He was an FFL during the 80s & 90s. Chinese AK were everywhere but I had zero interest at the time. It took libtard cocksuckers of the day to get me into the type of weapons I’m into today. In other words they can blame themselves, dad just taught me the shit to deal with shit when he was deployed dealing with their shit.

[556Cliff]

Not me. It was one of our neighbors that me and my brothers were working for at the time that really got us interested in guns. He took us and our Dad out shooting one day and had us try out a variety of different guns. Of course us kids really liked his M1 Carbine the most. Surprisingly the guy was a democrat and mostly into fudd guns.

One day in 1999 my Dad finally bought a Marlin .22lr tube fed rifle and a crack barrel shotgun after my Mom freaked out and told him to because one of our nesting ducks and it's eggs disappeared overnight from some wild animal. Never ended up finding any suspects to shoot with those guns, but all that combined is how it started.

My parents still aren't really into guns, but they are conservative and support the 2nd Amendment. They both have a few guns, but they never really use them.

[rero360]

My grandfather on my mom’s side had need an avid hunter his whole life, his parents lived through the Great Depression and really passed on that sense of self reliance to him. No one in my parents generation really were into guns that I know of but two of my cousins and I would go hunting with grandpa as often as we could. Now, the cousins are both cops back in NY and I went infantry and between the three of us we probably have a pretty decent arsenal.

[Artos]

I was fortunate & still am to be hunting with Dad...we have been members on the same 7000 acre deer lease for 20 years. He's doing his best to get to 80 & just had complete shoulder surgery a few days ago. I'm hoping it takes, cuz he hasn't been able to swing a shotgun for a couple three seasons. I remember taking tests / being at PE in grade / JH school when the principal from Peanuts / Charlie Brown would come over the com telling me to get to the office for a dr / dentist appointment only to end up somewhere outside of McCook to kill doves.

It was me who was eat'n up with the actual gun bug (beyond them being a tool) & got Dad interested once I became an adult...fun ride.