Little tradition I started this bow season with my kids

virginiashadow · 02-06-2008, 01:52 PM

I am always trying to get my kids involved with whatever I do, but bowhunting is really something they cant do at their ages(3.5 year old boy, and 5 year old girl)...they always see me leaving the house and ask to help me out.

This year I thought of something the night before opening day. I laid out 4 hunting shirts, 4 camo pants, and 4 different camo hats...I had my kids pick my outfit.......needless to say, I looked the worlds biggest idiot in the woods that day but it made me think of them and laugh while I was in the woods...I did get a buck within 15 yards but let him pass b/c he was too small....

Any of you have any traditions you do with your kids before, during, or after the hunting season?

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NEW61375 · 02-06-2008, 02:05 PM

My youngest son is 6 and my oldest is 13. They love to go to the farm and hunt with me and grandpa (well, they hunt a little) but for the past couple of seasons I have been taking them at least once or twice over to th Eastern Shore and we bow or blackpowder hunt out of a blind(BP is legal off the ground in the county we are in). It's fun, I let them call and rattle and put out scents. Over there we at least see some deer most of the time so it keeps them interested.

Here is the youngest with me this season.

I plan on getting them their own trail cams and help them set them up and check the pics this off season, I think they might enjoy that.

virginiashadow · 02-06-2008, 02:08 PM

NEW---hahaha, look at his head poking out of that thing! That looks awesome. I really hope my son wants to hunt with me, but only gonna take him if he asks me.

bloodcrick · 02-06-2008, 02:13 PM

Thats cool virginiashadow

When my oldest was to young like yours, we would just spend time in the woods, he liked to climb hills and slide down

He also liked to shoot me in the house with his nerf gun, and i would leave a RED paper confety blood trail for him to follow

The boy is a bloodhound now [8D]We still just hangout in the woods when the season is over shed hunting and scouting, here is a pic from the other day on the years first shed hunt, this is what they came up with. Tanner 8, Dalton 16

NEW61375 · 02-06-2008, 02:20 PM

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ORIGINAL: virginiashadow

NEW---hahaha, look at his head poking out of that thing! That looks awesome. I really hope my son wants to hunt with me, but only gonna take him if he asks me.

I'm like that too, I don't want to force it on them just expose them to it and go from there. We'll see how it goes.

npockat32 · 02-06-2008, 02:22 PM

No kids yet...trying to get my girlfriend to get into bowhunting with me....told her I would buy her a new bow!

gzg38b · 02-06-2008, 03:41 PM

My kids are young (3, 4, and 5). But I try to involve them as much as I can.

They already shoot a compound bow (Cartel Mini with a whisker biscuit set at 9 lbs). I let them shoot with me when I practice in the back yard.

If I get a deer, the kids love it when I hang it from the monkey bars on their swing set to drain / age before processing. The wife doesn't care for it, but the kids think it's cool!

I'll let them help mefind a dead deer, if it's a heavy, short blood trail that's easy to follow.

My son has a Rudolph deer that he "stalks" around the house and pretends to shoot with his bow. He then loads it up in the back of his plastic dump truck and drives it to his room. It's hillarious

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And every time my kids see any guy with long hair they ask if that's "Uncle Ted."

I can't wait to get them in a blind with me.

virginiashadow · 02-06-2008, 07:00 PM

You guys have some cool kids....that is interesting about that compound bow at 9 lbs gzg....I might look into that for my son.

blood----hahahaha! Leaving red paper all over the ground like a blood trail....most kids around where I live would say "that is red paper and I am following my daddy, we are playing hide the treasure"...your kids would say, "I am following a good blood trail...I think it may be liver/one lung". hahahaha!

wis_bow_huntr · 02-07-2008, 05:18 AM

How ya gonna afford a new bow for you, your girlfriend, me and that big fancy $30,000 Ford truck on our salary...duhhhh!!!

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ORIGINAL: npockat32

No kids yet...trying to get my girlfriend to get into bowhunting with me....told her I would buy her a new bow!

Jasonlester · 02-07-2008, 08:35 AM

Don't forget you daughter. Mine is almost 12 now and had a realy close call with a nice 8 the night of this pic. If she could have gotten the safety off she would have had him. She still talks about that day. Never mind she's holding the ML upsidedown in the pic. We were just walking out and I wanted a quick picture.

Actually she's been going with me since she was 2. I took her out in the middle of the day to "hunt" I laid back and dozed. She looked and looked for about 1.5 hours. Impressed me.

I now have 5 kids. My oldest, another girl 7, My boy 5, and my twin girls 1. All but the babies go with me from time to time. The older three ask all the time. Sometimes when its not to cold I get to take them.