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Re: Did anyone else learn how to shoot guns in Public School

Postby JamesInTheWorld » Fri Jan 21, 2011 8:04 am

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JamesInTheWorld wrote:Don't all inner city kids learn how to shoot at school?


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Re: Did anyone else learn how to shoot guns in Public School

Postby vetparatrooper » Fri Jan 21, 2011 11:30 am

To Kurt:

well I would not say mine was not at least partially tax payer funded....I am 39 years old and when I started in 4-h in the 4th grade the club meetings were held in the public schools in the town I grew up in,....so the school at least furnished a place for the club to meet during the school year and all that,.
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Re: Did anyone else learn how to shoot guns in Public School

Postby Hitoru » Fri Jan 21, 2011 2:42 pm

JamesInTheWorld wrote:
Hitoru wrote:
JamesInTheWorld wrote:Don't all inner city kids learn how to shoot at school?


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Re: Did anyone else learn how to shoot guns in Public School

Postby vetparatrooper » Fri Jan 21, 2011 6:49 pm

that Dr. Phil poster is Awesome. I saved it and I am going to send it to ssnapfish and see if they can make a big ass posteer for me of it.....that is classic....even if Dr. Phil himself needs plenty of fucking help too....LOL
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Re: Did anyone else learn how to shoot guns in Public School

Postby Sri Lanky » Sat Jan 22, 2011 10:56 pm

Learned in the backwoods and on farms as a kid. Didn't really learn...it was kind of like,"there's a racoon,shoot it!"...and so on.
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Re: Did anyone else learn how to shoot guns in Public School

Postby Fenrisco » Tue Feb 01, 2011 1:46 am

I learned to shoot (.22, 5.56, 7.62, clays) at school but it was a private school and I was in the cadet force and the shooting team. We had a full auto LSW in the armory (for which the entry code was 1234, I hope they've changed it) but I never got to fire it. We were about to build a 9mm/.357/.44 pistol range but then the Dunblane massacre made pistol shooting temporarily unfashionable in the UK.

My wife however was instructed in whatever Armalite variant the ROC Army used, as part of a public school program, but that was back during martial law when a D-Day style Chicom invasion was a significant possibility (it's not impossible now, but extremely unlikely). I believe they'd stopped lobbing artillery shells at one another at this point, but minor unpleasantness was still ongoing - her brother was stationed on Kinmen, a militarized ROC outpost near the PRC coast, and night sentry duty was much-feared. On moonless nights "grey ghosts" - PRC frogmen - would land, slit throats, and slip off again.
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Re: Did anyone else learn how to shoot guns in Public School

Postby flipflop » Thu Feb 03, 2011 12:07 pm

I learned marksman skills by shooting Catholics with a .22 air rifle in our local park

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Re: Did anyone else learn how to shoot guns in Public School

Postby Ultra Swain » Thu Feb 03, 2011 12:13 pm

flipflop wrote:I learned marksman skills by shooting Catholics with a .22 air rifle in our local park

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How far do you have to lead a Catholic?
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Re: Did anyone else learn how to shoot guns in Public School

Postby rickshaw92 » Thu Feb 03, 2011 12:14 pm

coldharvest wrote:I learned at about 10 but my school did have a rifle and pistol program through our cadets...and since you were branded a fag if you
didn't join cadets everybody signed up for instruction.



Cool. I was in air cadets as a boy, 666 sqn. Civitan though they changed the number, cunts. Was a real blast going up to Camp Borden for range and glider weekends.
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Re: Did anyone else learn how to shoot guns in Public School

Postby suwon fish » Thu Feb 03, 2011 1:38 pm

Ultra Swain wrote:
flipflop wrote:I learned marksman skills by shooting Catholics with a .22 air rifle in our local park

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How far do you have to lead a Catholic?


The three methods of engaging a moving target are smoke trail (where the weapon sweeps past the Catholic), ambush (where the Catholic walks/runs into your POI (point of impact)) and tracking (where the weapon moves at the same speed as the Catholic). I always favoured tracking.

Catholics are prone to marching, which would mean you would lead them less than most folks. I would take leading edge of target at 100 metres...
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Re: Did anyone else learn how to shoot guns in Public School

Postby marie-angelique » Thu Feb 10, 2011 2:20 am

Kurt wrote:So am I the only person who had a taxpayer funded gun course when I was a kid?


it appears so. do you still do some shooting?

i didn't learn how to shoot until i was out of college.
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Re: Did anyone else learn how to shoot guns in Public School

Postby Texas Carnie Roadshow » Sat Feb 12, 2011 4:34 am

Boy Scout shotgun and .22 rifle, a couple summers.
My first time out at a real range, I got to use an uzi though.
Think I was 15 or 16 then.
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Re: Did anyone else learn how to shoot guns in Public School

Postby Simian » Fri Mar 04, 2011 10:31 pm

I had archery in high school and shot guns at summer camp when I was 12. I am hoping my daughter (outside of me) gets the same experiences.
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Re: Did anyone else learn how to shoot guns in Public School

Postby Tonne » Sat Mar 05, 2011 3:17 am

I'm German, but went to high school in Canada for some time. Anything firearm-related was considered off-limits just because. But I went to the range almost every week with the uncle I was living with (who happens to be US-American). Back in Germany, some buddies of mine did the German hunting course. To obtain a hunting license in Germany you need to learn a lot about animals, plants, agriculture, and so on. It takes about one year to do the course and is harder than graduating from a German college. I am doing it now, as a university student. But I was drafted into the army where I received pretty good firearms training on pistols, assault rifles (G3 and G36), machine guns (MG3 - buyakashaaaaa!), grenade launchers and hand-held anti-tank missiles in basic training. Sadly, drafting is cancelled until further notice here. A decade ago, any 18 year-old man not willing to do social service in a kindergarden or something would go to the army for nine months. I did one year in order to get me into a direct action unit, and it was really cool.
But if you don't join the army and want to go in the woods for a shootin, you gota have that hunting license. That's what I'm doing right now cause I want to go hunting with my buddies.
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Re: Did anyone else learn how to shoot guns in Public School

Postby rockspyder » Mon Mar 07, 2011 4:34 pm

I had hunter safety in high school, sophomore year, IIRC, but I had learned to shoot when I was about 5 years old, with an air-rifle. Graduated to supervised .22LR by about 8. Dad died when I was 12, so i was pretty much unsupervised .22LR and then on larger from then on. We got no practical application in the high school course, but I did shoot some with the ROTC class.

I guess, now that I think about it, I've never had real training in pistol. Some in rifle, on the M-16 during (high school) ROTC.
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