When I was 12 years old I got a single shot Winchester 20 guage for Christmas.
Got to be a pretty good barn swallow wing shot - served me well later in life on quail and pheasant - still my favorite upland game bird.
I'd go to jail in this day of age for shooting songbirds.
My wife is the bird watcher in our family.
She sits at the breakfast table and ID's all the birds that come to her many feeders outside the window.
