Oh its a blast (pun intended) and we have been hooked for years, took my boy when he was 6 to retrieve birds, he's now 13 and has been addicted every since. I started 25 years ago in Alabama, moved to Ohio where there was no season till about last 8 years or.If you go once on a good shoot,you'll lose sleep waiting for the next one.I saw a handfull of girls at the Dove drawing and they did well. The heat can be the only downside to this early season stuff.....its gets hot in the fields.