As a kid, my great grandpa used to take me with him to pick ginseng in the mountains and check his traplines in fall/winter. We caught everything from skunks to coyotes, and I really thought it was somethin'. He was never much of a hunter, but the guy lived to trap. I guess he just never really took to deer hunting like he did to trapping.

Everyone in the fam. hunts, fishes, traps, etc. I started out fishin', then came the natural progression into trapping, shotgun, rifle, archery, flintlock, etc.

Red - I liked this thread so much, I started it again on the DeerHunting page.