In my case it is a sort of legacy.My father and his father were hunters.They hunted all sorts of animals including tigers,leopards etc. in India in the good old days.After partition we moved to Pakistan,I was only two years old then and used to listen to my fathers exploits until I grew up.However my father did not hunt at all in Pakistan but the lure of hunting was in my blood and since the age of six or seven I used to shoot birds with my Diana air gun.At fifteen I graduated to a .22 and a few years later got my first shotgun.My mentor and tutor was a gentleman by the name of Saeed Hai,the only Pakistani tennis player to play the Wimbledon,French and US open and an excellent shot with both rifle and shotgun.He taught me to shoot and hunt and even now although he is around eighty accompanies me on shikar though he himself does not shoot as he has arthritis.My hunting genes have now been passed on to my eldest son who is an avid hunter and my youngest who is also very keen on hunting.