I believe you need to be 12 years old and have a valid hunters education card (but if your parents told you those other requirements I'd have to go with them...).
Hunters education and 12 years old in order to purchase a big game license (elk, deer, moose, sheep, etc...) in Colorado.
However, there is no age restriction to tag along with an adult and learn the ropes.
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should choose ones that will kill when everything goes wrong."
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I would guess his parents. He is being told HE has to be 18 and on the honor roll. The first sounds like a personal preference, the second, a good goal.
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"If you ever go into the bush, there are grizzly bears lurking behind just about every bush, waiting to pounce, so you need a powerful gun with huge bullets" - Gatehouse ~ 2004
Is there any particular reason why he chose such an old age to take a grand son on his first elk hunting trip?
Now honor roll is a good idea.
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"The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency........... Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The Republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president."