RE: Your shooting history (spin-off of "age for starting" thread)
Dad took me frog gigging and quail hunting as soon as I could ride on his shoulders to do it !!
He bought me a BB gun at 4 , gave me his youth .22lr Win. at 5, gave me a H&R .20 gauage single at 6, Browning .22 auto at 8 .............and I slayed a bunch of stuff as a kid with that stuff !! Everything from Lizards , to rabbits, to ducks !! But the ole whitetail was elusive to me until I was in my later teens !!
Once whitetail hunting got me.......it had me and I hunted with a gun for several years ........then I picked up the bow and have been at bowhunting hard for 10 years !! The end of this season I decided to rifle hunt again and bought a new gun and killed a deer.........it was a lot of fun !!
So next year I will probably gun hunt more and start trying to teach my boy about some deer hunting !!