I think I spent my whole childhood diving out of haylofts with my BB gun and coming out shooting.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I've always had a way with a gun. As a kid, I loved to fire them at the shooting range in amusement parks. I'd always return home with a handful of prizes.
I was very fascinated by the time when firearms went from being fire sticks to being something people could use to hunt and to survive.
The sport of shooting is my life.
I shoot the same rifle I've shot since I killed my first deer with it when I was nine.
I shot with it a lot. I still do now. That is why I am hard of hearing.
When kids my age were picking up toy cars, I used to buy toy guns.
I'm happy riding horses and getting out shooting my gun, things like that.
I consider myself to have been the bridge between the shotgun and the binoculars in bird watching. Before I came along, the primary way to observe birds was to shoot them and stuff them.
Well, the first and only time I went hunting, I shot a deer, and it mortified me. I just couldn't do it again. But I know a lot about guns, so I go to the gun range and stuff like that with friends sometimes.
I grew up hunting with shotguns and rifles, and we had a gun in every corner of the living room. I'm not a gun advocate, but that's the way I grew up.