When I was in grade school, I went to a catholic school where I only had 4 other boys in my class and all four were taking hunters safety (all their dads hunted) My dad didn't, but I would have felt left out ifI didn't take hunters safety, so Idid. I fell in love with it, on my own ~with a little help from grandpa~ I went from squirrell hunting to rifle deer hunting to turkey hunting to bow hunting. Now I've been bowhunting about 7 years and wouldn't give it up for anything.