My dad had hunted some as a young man and is pretty knowledgeable on guns but with the demands of a dairy farm and raising 5 kids he didn't stay with it. His true love was always farming.
My brother and I started trapping before we got into hunting. We both shot on the high school rifle team and the hunting came as an extension of those activities. Dad always encouraged our trapping and hunting. We didn't have much for a deer population growing up so that came after I left home. Hunted lots of woodchucks, fox, coon and coyotes along with plenty of ducks and geese. It was great to be able to talk guns with Dad even though he didn't hunt.
