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Posted: 10/17/2004 3:30:41 AM EDT

[#1]

BS
Since about 1955. Had BB Gun before that.

Posted: 10/17/2004 4:47:15 AM EDT

[#2]

M.D.

Dad started me shooting at 5 y.o. w 22s.

Bought my ist gun, an Iver Johnson m1 carbine at age 16.

Posted: 10/17/2004 5:15:07 AM EDT

[#3]

Master's degree. As for length of time shooting, well - according to a picture my dad gave me, sometime since around 1968.

Posted: 10/17/2004 5:23:17 AM EDT

[#4]

bachelor's, graduate degree in the works. Shooting since @ 2000.

Posted: 10/17/2004 5:33:06 AM EDT

[#5]

Associates in electronics through Air Force Community Colllege, Commercial Diving School, License Practical Nurse,Associates in Nursing(RN), near completion of BSRN Nursing.
Been shooting since grandpa had to help hold up the shotgun, had a crack barrel .410 in the crib.
Got into "defensive" shooting around '94, haven't hunted much since.

Posted: 10/17/2004 5:46:59 AM EDT

[#6]

Been shooting since 1975. Plenty o' alfabitzs behind mah name if I wanna to list them, but who cares nowadays? It's for the insecure & unsincere.

Posted: 10/17/2004 5:49:30 AM EDT

[#7]

I have been collecting for close to 15 years ever since I got that fist shotgun at minimum age to go hunting with my father. From there is just blossomed like epidemic disease to all kinds of things bad and black!

Posted: 10/17/2004 6:00:08 AM EDT

[#8]

WTF is this shit - "Degree? I don't need a stinkin' piece o paper, I work for a living!"

I hate this class-warfare bullshit "I work for a living" implication that people with degrees don't work. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

BTW - One BA, one MA, working on an AAS in medical field - and I work my ass off.

Posted: 10/17/2004 6:02:55 AM EDT

[#9]

Two bachelors, a masters and a few months away from a Ph.D.

Been shooting for a bout 4 years after getting out of NJ.

Posted: 10/17/2004 7:27:43 AM EDT

[#10]

Vo-tech certificate in Law Enforcement
AA Criminal Justice
AS Business
BBA Management

Been shooting since I was 5 or 6, about 35 years.

Paraord16

P.S. Looking for a good job.

Posted: 10/17/2004 7:31:43 AM EDT

[#11]

AA
AS in GIS
Eventually a BS in Comp Sci

Been shooting since i was about 12 - 11 yrs now.

Posted: 10/17/2004 7:32:16 AM EDT

[#12]

BS Geology.Bee

n collecting for 40 years.

Posted: 10/17/2004 7:46:47 AM EDT

[#13]

Quoted:
History major

"Do you want fries with that, sir?"

Posted: 10/17/2004 8:13:38 AM EDT

[#14]

BS in Biology, a few credits short of a BA in History
DPM (four year Doctoral degree in Podiatric medicine). I also received a Masters in Life Science along with the DPM.

I have been collecting guns since the early 80's when my Father got back into it. I try to get to the range as much as possible, usually whenever I have some free time.

Posted: 10/17/2004 8:27:58 AM EDT

[#15]

I'm in college now, going to be a eye doctor. I've been shooting since I was a kid, I got my first rifle when I was 6 and my first pistol (Ruger bearcat) when I was 7, I'm 29 now. So sincemy dad took me out when I was 4, I guess its been since '79.

Posted: 10/17/2004 8:40:04 AM EDT

[#16]

AS
BS
MS

Shooting 1975.

Collecting 1988.

Posted: 10/17/2004 8:43:28 AM EDT

[#17]

I am working full time on my master's. I'm 33, and I have been shooting since the age of six, when I started out with my grandpa's K-22 S&W. I shot my first 1911 at the age of 9. Oddly enough (as I find out from talking to other shooters) I didn't shoot a rifle until I was probably 11. I grew up with pistols.

When I was 9 or so, my grandpa used to let me carry his Model 36 unsupervised on his property. Imagine giving a 9-year-old kid permission to wear a loaded sidearm now.

Posted: 10/17/2004 11:30:21 PM EDT

[#18]

AA & BS

First went shooting at 11, started buying guns and becoming a serious hobbyist at 21.

Posted: 10/17/2004 11:32:15 PM EDT

[#19]

Highschool, been shooting since 2000

Posted: 10/18/2004 12:12:23 AM EDT

[#20]

Bachelors Degree.

Been collecting too long to remember ( had between 20-30 BB/Pellet guns before I was 'of age').

Grew up around guns and hunting.

Posted: 10/18/2004 3:47:12 AM EDT

[#21]

Bachelors Degree from Ohio State. I've been shooting since the early 80's. My father and Grandfathers taught me well.

Posted: 10/18/2004 3:52:34 AM EDT

[#22]

high school grad, freshman at LSU.

bought my 1st firearm last month, bushy xm-15 16"

been shooting airguns since i was 6. 18 now.

Posted: 10/18/2004 3:52:58 AM EDT

[#23]

Senior in High School right now.

Been shooting for about 3-4 years now.

Posted: 10/18/2004 4:03:16 AM EDT

[#24]

Well, my option isn't on there so I can't vote.

High School, Military (which roughly equals trade school), and attending college now.

Posted: 10/18/2004 4:07:55 AM EDT

[#25]

m+

let's see...i got my first .22 when i was 12 years old...so that's just shy of 40 years of shooting. i've been collecting since i was in my early 30's.

Posted: 10/18/2004 4:37:15 AM EDT

[#26]

My dad started me pistol shooting between 2nd and 3rd grade, and in Junior High I started rifle shooting. Dad gave me a Winchester 75, and at 14 I bought (through dad) a Ruger .22 pistol. I guess "between 2nd and 3rd grade" was around 1976.

Mark, PhD

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