When I was 13, my dad bought me a 16 ga single shot Winchester mod. 370, 30" full choke, and put me out on a dog driven deer hunt.......did not have a clue what I was doing.....was told later that 3 deer had moved by me that day......never saw them.
Joined a hunt club at the age of 38......thought an SKS would make a good timber hunting rifle......was ridiculed to the point a buddy loaned me a ruger #1 .270 with a leupold 3x9 scope to finish the season. Killed my first deer with that gun. Went out and purchased a rem 700 adl 3006 and a leupold 3x9x40 vari-xll......shooting that thing was pure torture, never hunted with it.....got a model 70 3006 instead and took a lot of deer with it.
