Me, Dad and the brother where the first in the family to hunt deer so we had to start from scratch. I was nine then and dad shot the first Doe when I was fifteen I think with a shotgun, we had a big learning curve and no one was giving good advise. He bought me my first CB when I was sixteen I think, and I shot my first deer, a doe at the age of eighteen. Been having good luck ever since. Did not hunt the first year I was married and then have only had miss years when I have rack hunted.