A 17 year old boy and an extra warm September in Illiols, a grove of Hickory Nut trees ripe with an overly good harvest of nuts on them, with slippery grass slopes to climb along the Vermilion river and a Ruger Single Six convertable(fixed sighted) Of course ol' Elmer had worked on me previously and I was hooked? That was 1967, and I never looked back. Bought my first issue of Guns & Ammo at a one room grocery store called Johnny's food market.
Steve