When I was 11 or 12 I went rabbit hunting with my dad and he had a single shot 12 gauge and I wanted to shoot it so he handed it to me and told me to shoot the top of a sapling without ever showing me how to shoot,so there I stood with legs apart and the gun about an inch or 2 from my shoulder when I pulled the trigger it sent me into the bushes and all my dad did was laugh and tell me that will teach you how to shoot, I was sore for a week.