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As like most, started out with a BB gun around 7 or so and rapidly advanced to a pellet gun.

Dad bought me a surplus .303 Lee Enfield around 12 and we went to the range for me to learn how to use it. About the same age he took me Deer hunting.

He and I were hunting and I was about to cross a creek with hills on both sides. I was watching the hill in front of me (covered in trees & brush) when I saw a deer thru a slight clearing on the hill moving down towards me.

I dropped behind a downed tree and lined up my sights, clicked off the safety and by the time I was ready, the Deer had passed the clearing and was back in the brush, no longer visible. I was so disappointed that I had not moved and was still lined up on the clearing with safety off when........
I saw another deer passing thru the clearing and all I had to do was pull the trigger, which I did. It was about a 100yd shot.

Got me a 4 point Buck (Texas size). Thinking later, me and my Dad figured the first one was a Doe leading the Buck down.

That was my first and last Deer hunting trip. The sight of what I had done, the dead Deer laying there, put me off from Deer hunting ever again.