When was your FIRST Hunting Season?

[skeet]

1958.. i got to use a model 12 but it was a bit much for me to carry.. I was only 9.. 2nd time out my father bought me a Win 37 at the hardware store it was a 410 and I literally shot about everything you could imagine with that little gun...including my first Canada goose. I eventually got my fathers M-12 which is a first year 12 ga..I still have it and can tell you it has had at least 1/4 million shells through it. my first hunting license cost 1.25 for a county wide license. Shells for that little Win 37 cost 10 cents each and you could buy 'em by the piece..at that same hardware store...oh and I only bought Winchester ammo(usually 3 inch 5s) for that 37 LOL. My poor mother had to eat rabbit and skwerl wayyy too much and an occasional duck which she loved