So how old are most people here anyway?

[Ray Ray 3,566]

31

 

but if I count past lives i'm 719, which included shooting muskets, single-shots, lever actions, bolt guns, full auto SBRs, and a few M2s in WWII and Korea.

[rdsmith3 19]

52. I've been shooting 3 months.

[Richard 2]

59

Been shooting for seven weeks.

[henrym 19]

22 for 75 more hours. Shooting since 10

[Recon Racoon 49]

I'll drop the median age since I'm 20. Been interested in guns since I was little. Still haven't shot any thing other than BB guns, but I do have a box of 7 shot itching to be fired.

[Old Glock guy 1,127]

I'll be 60 in a month. Looks like I'm not the oldest here, but I'm certainly bringing the average age up. Been shooting just a little over a year.

[GeorgeHM 5]

Well to help skeq the data some more. Age 42 have never shot. Working on Fidc now looking for second person as reference.

[Kasanova 2]

26, shooting on my own for a bout 4 months now. When my dad was alive, we would go shooting all the time between (age 6-18)Started learning to shoot at age 10-11. Just picked up the hobby again after 8 years. So much fun, now I have my girlfriend joining me.

[Larry1851 0]

56 years young! Been shooting on and off for 10 years. As I get older, my gun becomes my equalizer!

[Kaiser7 33]

Well to help skeq the data some more. Age 42 have never shot. Working on Fidc now looking for second person as reference.

 

You won't skew the started shooting portion, as I can't count you since you've never shot. Oh, in case anyone is wondering, I'm doing the periodic talleys to make it easier on myself. I'm no statitician, so my results may very well be off, but they should be close.

 

Anyway, the Average age has gone up, again, to 39.7 years old (60 total responses). I should mention, if you said something like, "I'll be 26 in a few days" or whatever, I counted your age as 26, since, honestly, you're closer to that than 25.

 

As for the average age for user's first time shooting, that is now 22.3 years (41 responses). Again, I am surprised how many older people have only recently gotten into shooting. Their reasons for doing so would be interesting to hear. I imagine that a long time interest in firearms, pursuable once one has disposable income, is a major reason. Perhaps it is the spike in crime? These are all interesting things.

 

I should also mention, if people only gave a number in their post, and didn't indicate what it was, I assumed it to only be their current age, and not the age at which they started shooting. Furthermore, when given things like "Started at 7-8" I just took the lower age. I included BB guns in this talley as well since BB guns, along with .22s are, at least what I imagine, what most families would start their children shooting. Coming from a non-firearm household, I'm not sure of this, but I figured it was a reasonable assumption.

 

Perhaps if I have free time this week, I'll comb through the entire thread and re-talley. I just realized the method I've been using may not work right. Then again, I'll be the first to admit I suck at math XD.

[tommy3rd 132]

21,016,800 minutes

[TheLugNutZ 21]

26 here. been a gun owner for about 4 years, but have only really been "into it" for about 2 years. Not including some BB gun stuff when i was young.

[Parker 213]

Started shooting when I was 6 or 7. Dad used to take us to plink tin cans after Sunday church with an old WInchester 67A single-shot .22 on the edge of what was then Hackensack Water Company property just over the border in New York. On some weekends we'd watch the Pearl River Gun Club hold live pigeon shoots on the same grounds. We learned how to wingshoot there with a smoothbore Mossberg 42TR .22 shotgun and hand-thrown Mo-Skeet-O clays. (That area today is now a large industrial and corporate complex bordering Lake Tappan property.) Got my first "gun," a nice German-made pellet gun in 5th grade and my first .22 when I was in 6th grade. I got my first shotgun which was my grandfather's when I was in 8th grade. I still have the .22 and the shotgun.

 

That Mossberg 42TR was a neat little gun - not a great shotgun because of the limited round but unique.

[Shawnmoore81 623]

I'll drop the median age since I'm 20. Been interested in guns since I was little. Still haven't shot any thing other than BB guns, but I do have a box of 7 shot itching to be fired.

 

Don't you live around the block from me? If I gotta take you to the range to do some shooting I will. Just put in for ammo.

[NJdiverTony 27]

41 yrs old, been shooting since I was a kid (rifles and shotguns), but just got into handguns a year ago and loving it.

[e80hydro 120]

⁵⁰

[Krdshrk 3,877]

21,016,800 minutes

 

961,769,600 seconds old

[TheLugNutZ 21]

^ my head hurts

 

you know when you were born down to the second?!

[Cam'mown 0]

36 and green. Waiting to purchase my first pistol

[Krdshrk 3,877]

^ my head hurts

 

you know when you were born down to the second?!

 

http://www.mathcats.com/explore/age/calculator.html

 

Put in your date (and time) of birth

[Tactical Turtle 11]

25 been shooting firearms for over a year now, shooting bb guns and paintball guns since I was 14

[alec.mc 180]

I is....

 

 

 

12+12+6-15+10+1

[TheMan 45]

25 been shooting since 2005

[Zardoz 4]

62 now. My first 22 rifle was a gift at 11. Shotgun at 13. First revolver at 60.

[BlueLineFish 615]

Too much math in this thread

 

[RS1200XL 4]

23, been shooting since I was 10 or 11. Shotguns with my dad at Thunder Mountain, and .22 at Tenafly with my Boyscout troop.

 

Hadn't shot in nearly 10 years when I started shooting pistols last summer, and picked up my first pistol in September.

[farfromahero 1]

Youngin here as well. 23, I have been shooting since I was little in scouts.

[Recon Racoon 49]

Don't you live around the block from me? If I gotta take you to the range to do some shooting I will. Just put in for ammo.

I've been trying to go out some where the past couple weeks, but every time I want to go something more important comes up.

 

A friend of mine is having a baby shower in a couple weeks and the guys are probably gonna get together to shoot on their farm then. But we should get some local guys together and go shoot sometime.

[Fallout 3]

22 here

[almiz111 26]

Looks like us really old guys sold our guns............... or........ ARE DEAD! HA.

 

Next surveys. How much do you weigh? How tall are you? LOL.