I'm a pretty strange person. I have gone from omnivore, to vegetarian, to vegan, back to vegetarian, back to vegan, back to vegetarian, and now back to omnivore. I am a 22 year old female living in Virginia. I've lived in Virginia my whole life. The only person in my family that hunts is my grandfather and he doesn't do it much anymore.

My husband loves deer jerky and we also feed our carnivorous pets a raw diet (ferrets, cats, and dog) and it is expensive to feed everyone. We have not switched the cats or dog over to raw yet but soon we will and we are estimating to spend over $200/month on raw meat from the store. I was wondering if hunting could possibly lower our food bill as well as put meat on our table. I've never killed another living thing directly other than mice and rats for our snakes (I know we have a lot of animals). I've never picked up a gun and shot something before though. (well except for shooter and hunting games)

I'm in the Richmond area, and I was wondering how one goes about learning to shoot, hunt, and how to go about getting a license to hunt. I'm not sure what kinds of animals I'm interested in hunting yet but anything I can feed to my animals as well as eat myself I'm open for.