When I was young nobody in my family hunted. I had an old pellet gun I'd shoot birds and junk. Then when I was about 12 I went coon hunting with my cousin and his two sons. When I was about 15 they opened deer hunting in my areaa and we took coon dogs gone bad and started running deer with dogs and I havn't looked back. Now, about 40 years later I sit in a dang tree like a bump on a log.