Basically learned on my own. Not sure why my dad never took us. Think because we lived in a big city and he worked so hard for the family. We did a little fishing but never got out in the woods. I remember shooting my first bow and I think gun in the Boy Scouts. It stuck with me. Know if I had been introduced at a way younger age I would have taken to it like flies to, well you know.......anyway, after I shot that bow I knew I had to have one. Dad did buy first first hunting bow for me, but living in the city and not getting out had to find some folks to go with, etc........ I guess when I really became a hunter was in Germany from 1996-2001, wow, best hunting or any time in my life...... now I am a woodsman and a hunter and more for that experience then anything. Then when I returned I knew I had to return to the bow......year latter took my first doe.......and I am out there when I am not deployed, but have to say I am still developing and learning.....and my woodsman skills get better and better each year, yepper even at 50 I am still learning.....and now, the turkey addiction hit several years ago....... so this fall I and the bow will be out chasing them! [8D][8D][8D]