RE: Letting Young Kids Kill Deer: Is It Right?
I've taken my son hunting with me since he was 4 years old and have had the privilege to take 2 deer while he was with me this year. He has been around guns all his life and at 7 years old now I'm alot more comfortable with him handling a gun than some adults I know.
Next year I plan on letting him shoot a deer as long as I'm confident he can make a good, clean kill own his own. I will be with him but he will make the shot with no help from me. Of course he will have to have help dragging it out and cleaning it but that's something we share together. Heck, he's helped me clean several deer that I've killed so I can't really see the difference in me helping him. Besides, we all had to learn sometime. I killed my first deer at 23 years old and didn't know where to begin. Luckily I had an uncle to teach me. Basically if they have the skills to make the shot with only supervision I don't see a problem.