Got my first BB gun (NOT a Red Rider) at 4¾--Xmas 1956, first .22 (Cooey repeater) at 6½, first shotgun (A.H. Fox SxS 20 bore) at 8½, first target .22 rifle (Walther) at 11¾ -- started shooting competitive rifle at 12 and was an alternate for the 1967 Pan Am and 1968 Olympic (Mexico City) Games, first HP rifle (Parker Hale Sporterized SMLE 4/2 .303 British w/3x Weaver Alaskan scope—still have it) at 13—Bar Mitzvah present to myself, first competitive O/U shotgun (Browning Superposed all gauge skeet set) at 14½--finished grade 9 with honours, shot my first rabbit on my 5th birthday and my first deer at 7½ with a rifle and 12½ with a bow (Bear 45# Magnum), ran a Winter, snare, trapline from 6¾ to 12, started guiding for fish at 15 and for moose at 16½,