RE: who got you started
Nobody famous.
I was delivering on my mail route and met a fellow hunter who was in a wheelchair.
He needed some help setting up blinds for deer hunting so I gave him a hand.
We became friends and on his first day on a stand I picked for him he missed a buck and took a doe with his bow.
He repayed me the next spring by taking me spring gobbler hunting.
I took a PA longbeard that year.
I've been hooked ever since.