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<blockquote data-quote="User4302021" data-source="post: 1744544" data-attributes="member: 105322"><p>I got my first BB gun when I was in Kindergarten at 6 years old. </p><p></p><p>Like has been said by someone else, you could actually see the BB arc into the target and deflect in the wind. Conservatively, I estimate that I must have put over 100,000 BB's through that gun. I would by the small milk cartons with 3,000 BB's and sometimes they wouldn't last more than a couple weeks. </p><p></p><p>I spent my afternoons and weekends prowling the fields hunting field mice, meadowlarks, starlings, frogs, tadpoles, grasshoppers, dragonflies...and just about anything else that would let me get within about 20 yards of it. I soon graduated to a Crossman 760 with an actual rifled barrel and began shooting target pellets and a whole new world of accuracy opened up. The next step in my evolution had me roaming those same fields with my first single shot 22 LR at 12 years old.</p><p></p><p>The Army was the first time I ever shot past about 200 yards. It was there that I first heard there was an actual mathmatical method for figuring drop and windage. I got my first precision rifle in 1999 after leaving the military, (a Savage model 10FP in 308) and put a Weaver KT-10 on it and I was off to the races.</p><p></p><p>As luck would have it, that same year I joined a local gun club and met a man who would become my best friend and shooting mentor for the next 20 years. He was a former Ranger and sniper instructor, and was still doing training for the military on a contract basis. It was he that coached me to my very first 1,000 yard shots and taught me about ballistics and the wind and guided me to my first accurate handloads.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="User4302021, post: 1744544, member: 105322"] I got my first BB gun when I was in Kindergarten at 6 years old. Like has been said by someone else, you could actually see the BB arc into the target and deflect in the wind. Conservatively, I estimate that I must have put over 100,000 BB's through that gun. I would by the small milk cartons with 3,000 BB's and sometimes they wouldn't last more than a couple weeks. I spent my afternoons and weekends prowling the fields hunting field mice, meadowlarks, starlings, frogs, tadpoles, grasshoppers, dragonflies...and just about anything else that would let me get within about 20 yards of it. I soon graduated to a Crossman 760 with an actual rifled barrel and began shooting target pellets and a whole new world of accuracy opened up. The next step in my evolution had me roaming those same fields with my first single shot 22 LR at 12 years old. The Army was the first time I ever shot past about 200 yards. It was there that I first heard there was an actual mathmatical method for figuring drop and windage. I got my first precision rifle in 1999 after leaving the military, (a Savage model 10FP in 308) and put a Weaver KT-10 on it and I was off to the races. As luck would have it, that same year I joined a local gun club and met a man who would become my best friend and shooting mentor for the next 20 years. He was a former Ranger and sniper instructor, and was still doing training for the military on a contract basis. It was he that coached me to my very first 1,000 yard shots and taught me about ballistics and the wind and guided me to my first accurate handloads. [/QUOTE]
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