 I like to shoot because it's a passion and something I love to do. My father was in the Air Force. He taught me a lot about shooting. He was the original one that showed me the basics in shooting. When I was ten years old, my grandfather took me hunting and I killed my first deer. It just became a passion from there. I've shot one Marine Corps competition on the civilian side. I've probably shot about fifteen and I have no plans to stop them. I plan to do it for as long as I'm able. It's really something that comes natural to me and competition is always fun, you know. Compare yourself against others, see how well you do, and not to mention the community in the shooting competition. Marine Corps marksmanship, they really have an excellent program. They teach you the basics in shooting and then they go in from there and show you the rest. So I'm able to take the basics that they have shown me about how to walk and pull the trigger, how to do a slow, safe, please, proper cheek weld, and how to focus on your sights. But the Marine Corps has definitely opened my eyes to the rest of the shooting world and how to make the little fixes that I needed that I wouldn't have known how to apply on my own because it comes down to the basics and the Marine Corps does a very good job at teaching the basics. If you don't have a good foundation, you're not going to do anything.