One of my Grandfathers was a hunter. I have cherished memories of dove shoots with him, the best of them when I was the bird-boy. My very first shot with a gun was on a dove shoot when I was about eight. I asked to shoot his shotgun, a Browning 12ga A-5. He handed it to me and it put me flat on my back. He calmly said "Don't pull the trigger again". He needn't have been concerned!...Geo