The Norwegian wife of a neighbor loaned me an occasional copy of his hunting and shooting magazines. I was a sick kid that learned to read before ever getting to school, ditto for shooting too. Read everything in those magazines, greatly expanding my preschooler vocabulary. Got to go hunting with various Scandihoovians in those very impressionable years. Those early impressions and informations never faded much but, were overlaid with decades of hunting and shooting experiences.
I am now back to hunting with nice old hammer doubles, Husqvarnas, Sauers, & Merkels in my recent decades. Guns that "understand" my native languages.
With the advent of Internet and the many shooting and guns BBS in the countries and languages I call "home", the exchange of informations is more active than ever before. This BBS is one of the very best, even if it it is top heavy with British and American guns.
Niklas