Went on my first deer hunt with my father at 6 but just as a tag a long. Shot my first deer at 9 with a 30-30. It was a forkhorn mulie and I took it back home in CO. In those days you had to be 14 to hunt big game in CO and both my father and grandfather thought that was a dumb law. So I took this buck on my grandfather's tag. That is the only game law I ever broke and the statute of limitations ran out a long, long time ago. Many of my friends took their first deer under similar circumstances.
I'll be 55 on my next birthday. I look forward to my next deer hunt as much as I looked forward to that one when I was 9.