I've shot and hunted since I was little. Guided professionally for a few years. I have given many friends the shooting and gun bug.
Shooting, hunting, camping, scuba diving
"Let your gun therefore be the constant companion of your walks." --Thomas Jefferson
"The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that's good"
-- George Washington
"A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves ... and include all men capable of bearing arms."
-- Senator Richard Henry Lee, 1788, on "militia" in the 2nd Amendment