How old were ya when ya got a BB gun?

I can't remember how old I was. I do know that my son is almost 11 months and he got his first one yesterday.

I was 5 and just got my 5 year old one for Christmas. Wife unit didn't approve said times are different now. I disagree but maybe they have I was sitting by myself on deer drives at 9. I've got nephews that are 12 and I wouldnt trust em on the stand by themselves.

I killed a lot of squirrels with the benjy.

I was 7 or 8 when I got a plastic pump Daisy. 9 or 10 when my NOLA cousin gave me his Benjamin. My aunt said there was nowhere for him to shoot it.
I rebuilt the pump this past summer, shoots good as new. My soon to be 8 year old loves shootong it but I get to do all the pumping.
Times have changed, and where you live has alot to do with it to. I grew up outside the city limits of Bastrop. We carried our pellet guns everywhere on our bikes. My kids are growing up in suburbia. People drive too fast up and down our street to let them roam too far. And the houses are on top of each other. A kid with a pellet gun walking down the street would probably get a call to the police around here.

Oddly enough, I never had one. At least, not one for myself. Couple of my brothers had one, so I just used theirs.

My first gun was a Nylon 66, bought when I was 21 or so.

LC

2ish

6 or 7 I think.

4 or so

Red Ryder at 5
Benjamin pump at 8
Single shot 20 gauge at 9

quote:

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"Boy, you and yo cousins go shoot a mess of dem Robins and Ill make y'all jambalaya. "

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I hate to admit it, but when my brother got his .410 break action one Christmas when we were kids, we promptly took that sucker out and got us a whole mess of robins.

We cleaned 'em up before Mom could see 'em. We told her they were blackbirds. She cooked us a jambalaya too!

If she'd known they were robins, we'd have lost that gun and probably got a good tanning.

LC