none of the above really, maybe fun, so thats what i voted.
for me its tradition in my family to enjoy shooting.
when i was 5 i remember sitting on my grandpaws and grandmaws front porch with 15 or so uncles, cousins, brother, sisters, mom, dad, all pretty much just sitting back plinking.
i can remember my mom lighting ohio blue tip matches from 25ft with a high standard target pistol.
my dad shooting pecans out of the trees with a colt python.
my uncles would stand tums up in the grass and pop them with 22 rifles.
and me with my trusty marlin 39a levergun.
once saw my dad shoot the rattles off a snake at a paced off 85 yds with a 3040 krag trap door loader that was dated before the turn of the century.
the snake was allowed to slither away.
quietly.
i was as handy with that little 39a at 5 years old as i would be now.
and just as responsible thanks to my dad and his brothers, as well as my older brother.
my dad has long been gone now, as well as all my grandparents.
come to think of it, only a small handful of those folks on that porch are still here, but the tradition is still very much alive, just now im not the nephew, or grandson.
now im the uncle and the dad.
just this last thanksgiving my family must have fired a thousand rounds of pistol, rifle, and scattergun.
we shot skeet, we had a dueling tree that was loads of fun with 22 pistols.
probably 20 kinfolk.
still my family, just a lot of different trigger fingers.
sorry for the long post. i voted fun but owed my family as well as you guys a little insight.
im sure im not the only one here with the same basic story.
bryan.