hunter1989 91 Posted January 14, 2011 Report Share Posted January 14, 2011 hi hunters this is a funny kind of thread but how and why did you start hunting my life of the hunting and strain i grew up in a small town better known a cheltenham,with my brothers mum and dad. when i hit the age where i could decide what i wanted to do i went into doing crime hanging with the wrong people gave my mum and dad a very hard life as i was always a troubled kid(no lies all truth) anyways when i realized that i was doing this stuff to my mum and dad it was too late as they got a divorce and i ended up moving in with my dad he taught me right from wrong and how to be successful in life like he has owning 3 of his on factory's anyways i finished school with no qualification and moved to Australia for 8 weeks. sadly Australia and me parted very soon and i moved back to the UK. then i finally good my first job and it only lasted 2 weeks as the boss wasn't happy with my work and i was very rude to him but i wish i wasn't now then i found something i liked to do and that was music,so i got my head down and started writing my own music tracks and beats and all the tracks were based on my life style the way it was and how i want it to change,then i went to the music studios and recorded my first album(will upload a few track later) it was all going good till i messed it up.and all i wanted to do is make my parents proud after all they have done for me well on the net i was still talking to a few high ranked music producer no famous but on the way when one day a good friend named Chris invited me to a game of air soft,i started looking into buying one which was the bar10 sniper. when i came across a site that sold air rifles and thought wow there cheap so brought a hatsan mod60 and so on. no Ive owned more than 10 rifles and have starting hunting with people Ive meet and enjoy all of it. Ive also turned my life right round,2 beautiful kids a special wife and are own home so how did you get involved in it and why? atb Steve Quote Link to post
rossi_j 99 Posted January 14, 2011 Report Share Posted January 14, 2011 I started at about 11 under the supervision of my cusin a whole two years older than me lol, through the broken picket fence that swung open to allow acess down onto the disused train track on the edge of our estate, we could walk for what seemed like miles whithout seeing anyone, a old supersport was the ticket of the day with iron sights, rats were the quary (big uns aswel ). Body shots ensured a hit then finished with a stick or my boot (dident know any better). When rats were few and far between, cans and bottles were our quarry, I enjoyed every minute of our outings. Also iv noticed lads on here mention bulldog pellets witch were our pellet of choice and till this day I still have the bsa and a nearly full tin of bulldogs , I was hooked It kept us out of mischief and off the estate, some of the time atleast .atb. .ste. Quote Link to post
StevoSmith 147 Posted January 14, 2011 Report Share Posted January 14, 2011 I grew up in the stick's in north wales.....started using an air rifle from farm lads down the road(about3 miles) when i was about 10-11 it was and old rellum sport .22 i think...it was cr@p but i loved using it....i was mainly shooting rats in the farmers stock sheds man that was fun times......i kinda made a balls up about a year later and shot the farmers lad in the ass cause he was effin around....it was an accident promise ....anyway i didnt use one then for a while......i left school with no quali's and went to work for my uncle on the roads.......did this for a few years then i joined the army....(RWF)served 7 years in total left cause of my mrs at the time and within 3 months we had split.....biggest mistake i ever did was leave......anyway i went from job to job for a few years....got into a brawl with some lads one nite and got myself 4 1/2 years jail time...come out with my head sorted got myself a good job and met a new women who im with now....got back into shooting/hunting and i feel like i did when i was a kid when im out hunting.....got laid off 6 months ago which eff's me off as no work around but im still searching hard and go out most days/nite hunting serching for new permissions till i get my ass back to work.....so thats where im up to at this moment Quote Link to post
farmerkev09 105 Posted January 14, 2011 Report Share Posted January 14, 2011 You could kinda say I was born for the country side am 20 year old and for the first 15 year I was on the farm 24 7 that up bringing leaves a big mark on a person and its never left me not only do I love shooting I have ferrets and lurchers and was learnt by an old friend who saddly past way a few year back but got me started and gave me the best of tips and knowledge a young lad could have Respect the land and you will be rewarded Atb farmer Quote Link to post
rossy08 33 Posted January 14, 2011 Report Share Posted January 14, 2011 well let me cast my mind back............ it stated with a g10 pistols that me and base jumper both got. spent many a summerday in the woods shooting with that thing as useless as it was for accuracy. funnyly enough me and andie base jumper have been mates since play school the woods i talk of is now our derbyshire permission.and we both shoot together as often as is possiable. had alsorts of nakard old bsa and webleys brought of mate,some of witch had had 100's of very careless owners and wouldent shoot stright for love nor money, still the bug had got me. when i started full time work at 16 i started buying new guns from the local shop. by this time i new a bit more than the shop owner him self so would go in for pellets and end up behind the counter selling guns for him, ended u working there full time after about a year and in that time i brought and sold more guns than i care to rember and thats when i had my first pcp at around 20-21ish. was still never quite into it to the degree that i am now days but its a passion that has never left me, think in away i have my dad to thank,as i basicaly grew up in the woods making dens and the such like with mates like base jumper and my farther. learnt alot about the outdoors camping and bushcraft from him and again no matter what age i am ill have the outdoors running through my vains its to the point now where i cant go past a feild without looking thinking wounder if theres any quarry in there, live and breath hunting now days, and due to this site and alot of YOU i now no more that i ever thought i would. Andy Quote Link to post
Alex Arrigone 24 Posted January 14, 2011 Report Share Posted January 14, 2011 my hunting life started only 3 months ago. it all started when i came back from a 7 month tour of afghanistan and was sitting on a lot of money. i had just ended my long term relationship with my fiance (due to her being an inconsiderate B**CH!). this changed my life plan quite dramatically and where as i was about to buy a house, leave the army.,... for her. now i had a lot of free time and needed something to keep busy. me and my buddy were drving round talking about call of duty, and somehow it stemmed onto a conversation about a gun shop near us. we decided to have a look and pretty much fell in love with the idea. we bought budget rifles (springers) at first, and loved our new hobby. with land permission granted and more in the pipeline we eneded up going for air arms s410 classics and we now hunt on a daily/ nightly basis. never looked back since well nothing special but thats my story Quote Link to post
hunter1989 91 Posted January 14, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2011 hi lads some good storys there lads. atb steve Quote Link to post
gurtwurz 792 Posted January 14, 2011 Report Share Posted January 14, 2011 hi lads, it started one day for me when i was about 7, and my dad told me i was too ill to go to school that day... he took me up to a local common and showed me how to light a fire and make a den, so i was hooked on being outdoors, the following year we moved up to the village where my mum was born and bred and i spent mst of my time on my farmer grandads land where me and a couple of mates used to go messing around doing more of the same and messing with an old webley(mk4 i think), nothing in earnest til i hit thirteen and joined army cadets and around this time(about '83) we'd got hold of a bsa meteor and started looking for rabbits properly, as opposed to tin cans and suchlike. we carried on with the meteor and webley for a couple of years til my mates dad got a pump up of some form and we thought this was the nuts('its great! the more you pump it, the more power you get!'-yeah right...)and we were shooting .303 lee enfields for our battalion in cadets to boot, definitely the best days of our lives... somehow, when i left school and cadets i discovered beer, girls and other such things(not necessarily legl activities ) and got lost for oh, about twenty odd years til moving in with jax and getting a dog. the first time i took the dog for a wander over the downs i felt like i'd been struck by lightning, and at the same time my elderly uncle had got me to zero an old beeza back in for him-straight away i got myself sorted with a crap smk from a mate and got reading some airgun mags to see what was about nowadays where i saw that the mighty R10 was just about to come out so i got myself one at the first newark BASC show and managed to blag some permission from a friendly farmer. about a month later i swapped some tattooing for a .20 rapid and that was me sorted with a gun i really liked(i never really got on with the R10 at first) and some more permission and 3 years later here i am!! finding this site was a revelation, lots of sound like minded lads and all the help you could want... now i feel like i've come full circle, mooching about with a springer and having a blast... cheers, wurz Quote Link to post
StevoSmith 147 Posted January 14, 2011 Report Share Posted January 14, 2011 Nice wurz we used to shoot LE .303 in cadets also......man they had a kick on em when your a wipper snapper lol....also did the strip down and clean every week...........they were by far the cleanest .303's in world im sure lol Quote Link to post
hunter1989 91 Posted January 14, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2011 hi lads im loving this thread brilliant read ups now where your bay pics come on dont be shy lets all laugh atb steve Quote Link to post
gurtwurz 792 Posted January 14, 2011 Report Share Posted January 14, 2011 Nice wurz we used to shoot LE .303 in cadets also......man they had a kick on em when your a wipper snapper lol....also did the strip down and clean every week...........they were by far the cleanest .303's in world im sure lol i reckon youre right there steve mate!! i shot a .303 again in africa last year and it didnt feel half as nasty as when i was a nipper. still the best rifle EVER!! cheers, wurz Quote Link to post
pianoman 3,587 Posted January 14, 2011 Report Share Posted January 14, 2011 (edited) Pheww where to start. My dad was a Coldstream Guards sniper during WW2 and shooting was his absolute passion all his life, as it is mine. I grew up on his shooting and hunting stories, never knowing anything else and it was the most perfectly normal thing in the world to live in a large rambling house with a room full of shotguns and rifles. In the days of the early 1960s you could plink in your back garden with a .22 rimfire! He had returned from war in Europe with a couple of beautiful German .22 sporting rifles as trophies (among other stuff like a Luger 9mm, P38 9mm pistols and an MP40 ERMA he sent home in parcelled-up bits! I still have it on Deactivated certificate but, on Bonfire night he used to blast a tin dustbin full of sand with it!) And when I was 8 years old he took me shooting on his permission for the first time, that I now shoot as mine today. His friends were the Grandfather and father of my mate Ian and they are an old established Farming familly in my neck of the woods. Ian now owns and runs the estate and I shoot over the same fields I accompanied my dad and his dad and grandfather on shooting days. There seemed to be a never ending chain of quarry in huge numbers then. Flocks of pidgeons, woodcock, Hare, scores of rabbits, pheasant, partridge, grouse. It never seemed to end! At this time my mum's sister was coming over from Australia and she brought me my cousin's .22 Webley air rifle with her. Imagine trying to do that on Quantas now! Bloody beauty of a springer, it was really powerful. Possibly over the 12ft/lb limit but, no-one seemed to mind or worry then. The police were never on your back for going a pound or three over as they would now. God knows when all this fear and terror of firearms came from nowadays. But, that's how I got into air rifle shooting. I also had an ASI Sniper .177 and at the age of 12 my idiot of another cousin accidentally shot me in the face with his Relum Tornado .22 underlever. Thank God they were underpowered by today's standards. Still got the slug in my left cheek! I joined the Royal Air Force Regiment as a Gunner in 1977 and won my RAF marksman's cross rifles badge when still in recruit training at RAF Swinderby. That was the 7.62mm SLR and I loved that rifle like a pervert! I went on to RAF Catterick for Regiment training and won the course shooting score record. Got good scores throughout all weapon modules. I was creamed off for what the RAF likes to call LRPM (Long Range Precision Marksman) Flight. That's sniper to you! Very intensive 16-week course followed that. I didn't get to see a telescopic sight until we were well into the course. It was wonderful to be a part of the elite corp of British military marksmen. We truly are the best there is in the world. My duties took me to war protecting my mates, our Rapier Anti Aircraft missile system and I shot in anger. "Shooting For Your Pay" it was known as. The Falklands conflict and Northern Ireland earned me a couple of medals and very mixed memories of those now historic days. God knows what the lads serving in Afghanistan today will make of their experience. But this is not the place for that discusion. We still had the SMLE .303 Lee Enfield on charge when I joined up and the massive Barrett Light .50 calibre was in our armoury before I hung up my shooting stripes. That was a gun and some! I still had the love for a good air rifle though, and with my pay, I bought my first true hunting air rifle. A Feinwerkbau Sport .22. What a rifle! It was a true hunter, with a Tasco Wideangle scope and I had it with me back at RAF Catterick and other UK bases I was sent to. RAF Airfields are fantastic for rabbits by the hundreds and no-one was bothering to shoot them, even though they were seen as an aircraft hazzard. I had to keep my FWB Sport in the Station Armoury and it was the only air rifle there! I got a Weihrauch HW35 Export .22 in 1979/80 and these guns were really superb. I've been a devoted and faithful customer for Weihrauch air rifles ever since. The HW80 came in the early mid 1980s and I got one. Loved those ever since. I have two and love em to bits. Now, I'm 53 and have shot with all that shooting offers, though I live very peacefully these days as a pro sessions musician and professional military artist and illustrator, my air rifles afford and allow me to get out and enjoy my shooting as I've always enjoyed it, without having to be mindful of so many restrictions that have clamped down on the shooting sports scene over the course of my shooting lifetime. Enjoy it, enjoy the journey it can take you on and fight to protect it from those miserable ignoramouses who want to ban everything in a fit of fear and ignorance. They bloody will if we let them! Apologies for rambling! ATB Simon Edited January 14, 2011 by pianoman 2 Quote Link to post
craig33 10 Posted January 14, 2011 Report Share Posted January 14, 2011 it was all my old mans fault he was a big shooter 5 year old i got my first gun and that was my spare cash doomed from then on . but if kids nowdays were tought as i was from being young we would not have half wits running arround willy nilly shooting anything and everything . i keep trying to get my lad to keep it up cos that kid can shoot but he loves his carping and is not that interested unless hes bord craig Quote Link to post
chris1wg 24 Posted January 14, 2011 Report Share Posted January 14, 2011 well it all started when i was about 10 yrs old when my mam bought me a little smk hand gun, used to go up a old railway track and shoot bottles was fun at the time, my mate asked his dad for one for his bday and he ended up having a bsa lightning, to tell the truth i was well jelouse so for my 11th birthday i bought a smk 22 rifle, thot i was the muts nuts with the thing ha ha, couple yrs later i bought a aas410 when i started work at the age of 16 butt got board after a while and sold it was well gutted now tht i got rid of it, i joined the army at 18 and was shooting some big boy guns as now im in the hmg platoon ( heavy machine guns) shooting the 50 cals and granade machine guns also was using the L96 in afghan 7.62 sniper rifle wich we named the widow maker lol well i now air rifles is not as much fun as firing the 50 cals and such butt when i got back from afghan i got myself a tx200 and then sold tht and now got a raider 10, got the bug back as u can say im thinking of getting a bsa super 10 next butt we see prob see somthing else Quote Link to post
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.