How long did it take?

Got my first hunting pup given to me at 8, by family, so they let me and my dog tag along for a few yrs, by 12 I had 2 ok dogs, and started hunting with others. The others would allow me to go with them beacuse my 2 dogs would find a hog. That is a sure way to get invited to hunt. By 15 I could go hunting buy myself, and that was before we caught and tied them, just bay and shoot one with my single shot 22, not real successfull, but I learned a good bit hunting like this. And I continued to hunt with others, and learned what type of dogs I liked, and how I wanted to hunt. When I was in collage I only had one dog, and hunted occasionaly. Put my self in a couple bad spots, hunted with a few shady folks, but learned from this! Then I went and bought a couple of started dogs, and have hunted hard ever sence, And now the few I hunt with I respect and trust very much. Long story short 30yrs.