My old man started me with a 22lr at about 9 and I moved up to a SKS by the age of 10 or 11. I use to love telling my classmates and teacher that I was shooting a "russian assault rifle". LOL! I would go with my childhood buddy Matthew to his dad's hunting land out in Edna,Tx. It was the shit for a kid to run around on all that land and pop fireworks, shoot our guns, and hunt for Chupacabras. I looked just like kid in picrel.