[Turret Gunner A20]

Don’t tell anyone, but I used to go hunting with my Dad when I was about eight years old, and got a 410 shotgun of my vewry own for my tenth birthday.

[jwparkerjr]

I grew up on a ranch near Lake Okeechobee in Florida. My dad was the managed the 20,000 acre ranch and I had the run of the entire place. I had a 16-shot Remington semi-automatic 22 cal. rife and spent many hours roaming around, unchaperoned, with the rifle. I grew up with rattlesnakes and gators and wild hogs, swimming in a swimming hole at a remote creek on our property. The thought never occurred to me that I might be in any danger. Dad taught me all sorts of things I needed to know to be safe from the elements, not to mention myself!