I can tell you from a Dad's perspective that it is one of the greatest experiences ever to have my sons kill their first deer with me in the stand. Both my son's killed their first deer when they were 6, and even though my oldest son has lost interest in hunting, we still have the memories. My youngest son, on the other hand, absolutely LOVES hunting and has killed 5 deer this year in the two states that we hunt. He mainly hunts by himself now, but I was with him in Oklahoma when he killed his largest buck ever on Thanksgiving day.