So how old are most people here anyway?

[jermz1987 243]

23

[checko 180]

28

[Jon 264]

24 for two more days, started shooting before I can remember. 4 or 5 if I had to guess.

[Kaiser7 33]

Haha, well I just retallied for the current figures.

 

The Average user age, as of now is 36 years old (out of 26 responses), it's gone up from 33.6 when I tallied earlier.

 

Interestingly, as the average user age has gone up, the average age of shooting for the first time has gone down. The average age most people here started shooting is now just under 18 years old (out of 19 responses).

 

Interpreting this data, it seems the older you are, the younger you learned to shoot. It looks like a lot of the people who are younger, in their 20s and 30s, only started shooting within the past few years. Those who are in their 50s seem to have, for the most part, started shooting before their tenth birthday.

[M2AX 0]

Drat missed the tally! 47, been shooting less than 4 months ... ( total novice)

 

 

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[Odin 1]

38 and novice too but learning.

[bbk 188]

26 in a month or so. Been shooting only since 18, when Uncle Sam gave me the opportunity.

[9thMarines 44]

Damn! Its lonely in my bracket. 76 going on 25 (cept' for the knees and the back). Still enjoying my toys.

Will have to figure out what I want to do when I grow up...

[KpdPipes 388]

45

[Qel Hoth 33]

22, been shooting for about 3 months.

[blizzzarddemon 0]

23 and been shooting since 5 my dad.had me shooting apples with a daisy red ryder off the tree we still have that gun

[JamesC 2]

25 and I started when I was 12

[PhilipJFry 4]

35, got my first gun when i was 12 or so.

[deadeye74 5]

37. Started with bb guns at age 8. Did some shotgun hunting for a few years in my early 20's , took a break and got into pistols this past year when time and $$ let me start a collection!

[vladtepes 1,060]

34

[Kaiser7 33]

New Tally! As of now, the Average age is 37 (out of 37 responses). The median age is still increasing, but I must admit, I'm surprised just how young the average age is. I really would have thought it would be higher than that. Interesting.

 

The average age that people started shooting has decreased (but only slightly.) it went from 18 (17.9 really) to 17.7. (25 responses)

 

What I find most interesting about this is the dichotomy of how people seem to have either started shooting fairly early in life (5-13 years) to much later (30s and 40s). Usually I would have thought most people would have started earlier. Hell, I figured I was relatively late to the game, never picking up a firearm until I was 19. I always figured firearm ownership/use was something that stuck in families, that you'd shoot for the first time fairly young, and perhaps get back into it later in life when you have more money. I'm surprised just how many people didn't start shooting until they were in their 30s.

 

That's a good sign for the firearm community though. It means that more people are practicing their right to bear arms, even if they weren't exposed to it at a young age. Of course, without a total sampling, or even a much larger one, my results may very well be off, however I'm going to keep monitoring this, and seeing what the data says haha.

[PK90 3,570]

52 started at 8

 

I'm surprised just how young the average age is. I really would have thought it would be higher than that. Interesting.

 

This is because the older generation are not on internet gun forums like the younger generations.

[Malsua 1,422]

44 started at 6

[dgstinner 11]

I'm 37 and began shooting around 10 years old.

 

 

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[mikeyboyeee 66]

Just turned 40. Grew up in VERY anti gun househiold, so only been shooting 3 yrs.

[Adam 6]

35. Shot my first firearm at 6.

[compujas 21]

28, started shooting at about 22 or 23.

[Texas Shooter 35]

46 and turning 17 this year

Knees are going downhill.

 

I've been shooting since I was 7, and still have the rifle and pistol. Dad liked guns, but mom didn't. Wife doesn't like guns, doesn't see a need for them and thinks we're perfectly safe from bad things happening because nothing bad happens in Mahwah. Went shotgun shooting with my son's boy scouts last year and she let her guard down. There's now a G19 G4 and a Mosin Nagant waiting to be be de-Cosmo'd. Little does she know there's another Mosin, possibly two, on the way, plus another handgun. And....she agreed to let me buy an AR ("it's only $1200 and we have to buy before Obama bans them").

 

Yup, more young shooters is a good thing for the community (don't forget to vote!).

[BigAl 10]

Turning 30 in June, started shooting last year when I escaped from the peoples republic of nyc

[njJoniGuy 2,131]

57 now

Started shooting at 12 at camp

Learned to field strip WWII 1911A1 at 13 (wasn't even supposed to know where it was!)

Got first rifle at 16, first handgun at 21

[hd2000fxdl 422]

46

[maideneddie 35]

34, started shooting when I was 7 or 8 with my brothers bb gun.

[BigBlueQ 7]

41 and I really just got into shooting a couple years ago, maybe three.

[Shawnmoore81 623]

30 and shooting since I don't remember.

[QuePsiPhiSmkr 14]

42....

 

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