The first thing you'll want to do is to find out the rules governing hunting in your state. You'll want to know seasons, limits, what kinds of weapons are legal, etc. Then it's pretty likely you'll have to take a hunter safety course. So sign up for that.

Then you can start hunting. Okay, you don't need a gun to hunt. That's for the "hunting" season where you can actually kill something. But getting out where the critters are, finding out where they hang out, how close you can get, what they like to eat, what kind of tracks they make and so on. This is the kind of hunting, some call it scouting, that will help you enormously when you go out with a bow or a gun.

We, that is my husband and I, spend a lot of time in the woods just scouting. We take the girls along, (they're five and three now), so they can learn too.