UltraTen Posted March 3, 2009 Share Posted March 3, 2009 January 07 Wish I had started alot sooner too. Might have even been good by now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flatland Shooter Posted March 3, 2009 Share Posted March 3, 2009 I'm now 56 (where did all the time go?) Raised around firearms, I shot trap competitively when I was 14. My father got me started in bullseye shooting when I was 16. Just never really enjoyed it. During my senior year in college, a student returned from summer break and wanted to show us this new shooting game. It was the first time I saw ever saw anyone with a handgun running from target to target blasting through several magazines worth of ammo in less than a minute. My thoughts? What a freaking waste of ammo. I went to college as the proverbial "poor student" and did not take up shooting again until I got a good paying job. Shot both skeet and trap until the price of lead shot was about what I made in a week. Around 1982 the local newspaper ran an article about a group of shooters putting on "practical pistol matches". One Sunday I went to the range with several boxes of ammo for my Colt Gold Cup. Joined in on the fun only to find out this particular group of shooters had consisted of the biggest bunch of self-centered jerks I ever met. Even though that range was only a few miles from my house, it was years before I went back. By then, not one of the jerks were still shooting and a whole new bunch of shooters were trying to get something good going. By 1986 or so we decided to get with the program. Our club joined that new-fangled USPSA group in hopes that they would still be around in a few years. Other than a few dry periods where work or location made shooting USPSA matches difficult, I've been able to stick with it. Now I'm in the Houston area. This is a gold mine for shooters. Lots of high quality matches with lots of good shooters who are also good people. As for the question "How long have you been shooting competitively?" Over 30 years and hoping for another 30. Bill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aircooled6racer Posted March 3, 2009 Share Posted March 3, 2009 (edited) Hello: I started shooting a pistol in October 2005. I had never shot a pistol till then. It is difficult to shoot/own pistols in Canada so I really missed out on the fun when I was young. I am making up for it now though I started with a Ruger P95 and shot my first USPSA match with it and used up 60 rounds on the Texas star and still left a plate on it I am still having fun and learning all the time. Thanks, Eric Edited March 3, 2009 by Aircooled6racer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtm Posted March 3, 2009 Share Posted March 3, 2009 Started shooting competitivly in 1974. took up 3-gunning in the late 80s. Joined USPSA in 2003 just so I could shoot the first ever European shotgun championships, I hardly ever shoot USPSA pistol only matches or what I like to call 1/3 gun matches! KurtM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
islandtime Posted March 3, 2009 Share Posted March 3, 2009 I started shooting USPSA in March 2008 and have been hooked ever since. I grew up hunting and target shooting with 22 rifles (even got my NRA expert rating at BSA summer camp). I had very little hangun experience except for my dad's Ruger single six 22 cal. I bought an .40 M&P last February and realized how much I liked shooting and started looking for a local club but wound up finding an addiction!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue_862 Posted March 3, 2009 Share Posted March 3, 2009 First USPSA was 03/11/07 on a cold day in Iowa and I have thought about shooting everyday after after. I have shot pistols for about 10 years but once I tried USPSA I was hooked. Rick Dahly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Hostetter Posted March 3, 2009 Share Posted March 3, 2009 Started shooting competitive Skeet and Trap in 1977, started shooting USPSA in 1985. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcarter Posted March 3, 2009 Share Posted March 3, 2009 I started just about 2 1/2 years ago. Like most, I wish I would have found this sport earlier in life. I can only imagine where I would be now with 20 years under my gun belt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tzygä Posted March 3, 2009 Share Posted March 3, 2009 IPSC 10+ years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boz1911 Posted March 3, 2009 Share Posted March 3, 2009 Started in 2005 at 49 years old. Would have been nice to start when I had superb vision though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwt Posted March 3, 2009 Share Posted March 3, 2009 Since 1978 ,damn I'm getting old Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
All-Gator Posted March 3, 2009 Share Posted March 3, 2009 Began in 1964 by shooting Service Rifle in NRA competition; gravitated to Bullseye for quite a few years; and, then "discovered" action pistol in the early 1990's. Older than dirt; can't see; slower than a snail; my back hurts...but still enjoying the game. A-G Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PCC-1 Posted March 3, 2009 Share Posted March 3, 2009 Started shooting PPC Combat and Bullseye in 87, got really bored so I migrated to USPSA in 93, Doubled into IDPA in 08. 3Gun started somewhere around 97 or 98.... Law Enforcement Games since 94 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davecutts Posted March 3, 2009 Share Posted March 3, 2009 Joined uspsa in 2000, started shooting bowling pins in FL 1998 while in grad school at UF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anubis Posted March 3, 2009 Share Posted March 3, 2009 I shot my first match Aug 16 2008 and got to shoot 2 more pistol matches and the rocky mountain 3gun during the following month. Since then I've been back at my home station in England and well can't have guns here so I'm stuck waiting to come home again so I can shoot some more! I didnt join USPSA until after my first match so only the second 2 counted for classifiers. Hopefully I can get two more classifiers in next time I'm home and do well enough that I can average out my current 14% and 54% I'd be happy if I could get my first classification to be a C Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Sierpina Posted March 3, 2009 Share Posted March 3, 2009 Started IPSC in 1980 (pre USPSA) Although I took 10 years off from USPSA, I've also shot Second Chance, the Masters, Highpower, and Bullseye. I guess I just like playing with guns! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtm Posted March 3, 2009 Share Posted March 3, 2009 Anubis, If you like shooting, check out UKPSA. Action Shotgun is alive and thriving in the U.K. and it is a blast!! I will be over, yet again, for the English open latter this year. Check into it! KurtM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
larry cazes Posted March 3, 2009 Share Posted March 3, 2009 March 2002 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carmoney Posted March 3, 2009 Share Posted March 3, 2009 I started shooting handguns competitively in the summer of 1987 when I was 21. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seth Posted March 3, 2009 Share Posted March 3, 2009 (edited) I shot my first USPSA match in March of 2008. My first IDPA match was in August of 2007. I started shooting rifles in my early teens (mid 80s) and shot a lot of sporting clays in 06/07. I'll be 35 on the 19th of March (hopefully as a B class limited shooter) Edited March 3, 2009 by Seth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PCC-1 Posted March 3, 2009 Share Posted March 3, 2009 Joined uspsa in 2000, started shooting bowling pins in FL 1998 while in grad school at UF. Oh my I forgot about the pin matches in Micanopy.... boy that guy sure had one helluva luger collection.... Beckwith i think was his name... I hear he has left the firing line... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reneet Posted March 3, 2009 Share Posted March 3, 2009 Started Local Competition in 1989. State Level 1993. National Level 1994. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gino_aki Posted March 3, 2009 Share Posted March 3, 2009 Whenever (I forget the month) I moved to Maui in 1984. Met up with guys at work who were members of Valley Isle Sport Shooters. Things have never been the same since. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rishii Posted March 3, 2009 Share Posted March 3, 2009 Whenever (I forget the month) I moved to Maui in 1984. Met up with guys at work who were members of Valley Isle Sport Shooters. Things have never been the same since. yep the good old day, started around 1984, I had been reading articles about IPSC for a couple of years. a couple of shooting buddies decided to start a club, about the same time there was a NROI class in honolulu, that was taught by USPSA President Dave Stanford and his wife Marlyn. My 1st match was the NROI class and the RO for my 1st stage was Dave Stanford, talk about match nerves, I didn't DQ and 25 years later I'm still at it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bubber Posted March 3, 2009 Share Posted March 3, 2009 I started shooting competitively (using the term loosely) about April of 75. It was called Police Combat. Ipsc style but just used steel targets, reactive and noreactive. Just shot once a month in Casa Grande, Az for almost 3 years then the bug bit hard. Shot mostly Revo's but had an Auto or two during that time. Dang I should be a lot better huh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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