I was running around in the woods by myself with bb gun or recurve bow and steel traps when I was oh, maybe 7? Maybeyounger. I know I got my first shotgun when I was 8.
Hardly any deer back then. So I didn't really start deerhunting until I was out of college. Of course, by then.. there was hardly any place left to hunt in NW 'burbs of Chicago. [:@]