I've owned two guns in the past. I started off with a Valmet 20 bore shotgun, and after a couple of years I bought a Beretta 12 bore shotgun.
Whilst living on a farm I used to do a lot of shooting of pigeons, crows and unwanted birds. Rat shooting with the .22 rifle was fun too.
And in shooting season (game shooting, pheasants, partridges, duck etc) I used to be to shoot a few times. Being the gun for the day is quite pricey, so most the time I was a beater (part of the group pushing the birds up ad out towards the guns) and got paid for it instead, £20 for trawling through woodland all day aint bad.
The rest of the year I'd be clay pigeon shooting. Travel around and go to big venues. I even made the Norfolk Juniors team.
I've used rifles of different sizes and calibers. Being a trainee gamekeeper and one point, I had to keep the fox away from the birds. I know a lot of you are against it, but atleast we didn't torture them with hounds.
My mother still owns two guns, a Beretta game shotgun and a Browning clay pigeon shotgun. Although she still owns them, she hasn't used them in some time as we moved away from the countryside.