RE: How did you get started
I grew up on a farm and guns were just tools ,to kill chucks ,black birds ,rats ,ect.
Dad did not hunt ,to hunt.
I just wanted to hunt and fish so when I was 12, dad showed me how to shoot and said I don't have time to go with you ,don't do anything stupid ,you know where the guns (a 22 rifle and a 12 gau pump)are . I was alowed to roam our farm and several others to hunt on my own.
I am teaching my neices and nefew how to properly hunt .