Counting back I figure I was a V-E Day celebration. Total city boy, born and raised in Seattle -- North Queen Anne Grade School, Queen Anne Jr/Sr Highschool, and University of Washington. Both my parents hunted and fished, and we sure didn't spend many weekends in Seattle. As my Mother use to say "we don't go on vacations, we go on endurance contests." My Father was the hardest core hunter and gun crank of six Minnesota farm boys, all hunters. Guerss I only got half the gene as I never took to the big game hunting my Father was into. I shot one Deer in 1962, but traded my sporterized 03A3 off for my second Fox shotgun in 1966.