I’m on the western side of Virginia – Alleghany County.

Like so many here, the years have passed in a blur.  I’m 67, going on 30.

I’m a lawyer, partly retired.  I was 33 years in a general practice.  Now I work one day a week for a large private business here.  I also teach Business Law at Virginia Military Institute – in my 15th year.

I’ve been fascinated with guns since early childhood.  I started with pistols.  My first was a Ruger Standard .22 auto in the 6th grade.  I saved enough money to buy a war trophy P.38 and one box of 9mm ammo when I was in the 7th grade.  I carefully picked up all the spent brass, and when that box was shot I asked one of my dad’s contemporaries if they could be reloaded.  He took me under his arm, and started me loading ammo with a Lyman 310 tool, a bullet mould, and a powder dipper.  I’ve been loading and casting bullets ever since.

Of course, I got into rifles.  My first was a Winchester 94 .30-30, and I killed my first deer with that when I was 13.

My first single shot rifle was a Browning 78 chambered in .25-06 that I got in about 1976.  It’s been a love affair since then.

In the ‘80s I was an avid groundhog hunter, and my primary rifle was a Sharps Borchardt custom in .225 Winchester topped with a Unertl Vulture 10x.

I have a fair collection of single shots now.  Oh, and I also have a big double rifle problem . . .

Curly

Curly did you know Dr. Ben Meeks? He was a Mentor to me!

Curtis Brier
55 W. Central MO
My first single shot was a roller with a Numrich Arms Buffalo Hunter kit in 45-70, which was a duplicate to the first big single shot I ever shot that belonged to a buddy's dad.
Some of you may remember the old Yahoo group days. I was a member of the BP-L group which had notable members such as Rich Hicks and Bob Roller to name a couple. Back in 07 I tried to a get an internet postal match going that never quite got off the ground due to my lack of time.
To this day, I still have an email folder labeled E-matches that contains several emails back and forth between me and Richard, and maybe some of you guys.
It was about then I acquired a C. Sharps 1874 LRE and just recently picked up a Winchester Creedmoor from another member here. I am a life time fan of #1's, and have burned the barrels out of 1 or 2 40X's.
If you are in my area and need a place to shoot or just want to hang out, give me a shout. I can get 400-600 in my back yard.

I will be 78 in January have been shooting since age 5, been reloading since I got out of the Army in 1966.

67 and in central Pa. Put together one of Numrichs Minuteman flinlock kits way back in HS. Shortly after rebarreled an old 43 Spanish roller with one of their 45-70 Creedmore barrels. Then had a trapdoor that I later traded for a Ruger #1b 30-06.
Been hunting and reloading all my life and have always had an interest in the old American single shot rifles. Over the past 5 years have been collecting old shooters. Have a couple Stevens 44s, a 414, 44 1/2 in 32-40, a Favorite. Several rollers, a pair of Sharps reproductions and a sporterized trapdoor carbine. I like old guns as they make me feel not so old myself.

John

62 years old from southern Wisconsin, spending more and more time in northern Wisconsin. My first single shot was an Ithaca 49 a long time ago. I still have it and a half dozen other singles in assorted makes and calibers.

Going on 77.  Been rode hard and put away wet most of my life.  Retired into southeastern Ohio in 2009. Not doing much shooting or gunsmithing anymore due to bad back, but recent surgery may help that. Never shot a single round in competition, mostly I've enjoyed reviving old Stevens rifles found here and there. Especially like forming brass for obsolete cartridges.