...as your father or mentor taught you?

MY dad did things a certain way and hehad a pretty unique way of teaching us how to hunt. A lot of it consisted of allowing us to make a lot of mistakes first and learning from them.

He would let us hunt in the wrong spots, at the wrong times until we learned the lesson and the "why not's".

Also, if we killed it, we gutted it and skinned it. He would show us how, a few times but he felt if we were old enough to kill it we were old enough to take care of the rest. He always said the funs over when you pull the trigger............... Boy, there is some truth in that.

My brother does not teach his kids these same lessons. He takes a much kinder more gentle approach.His boy has killed 9 deer and is yet to gut one himself..................he's 12.

I'm not sure what I'll do, but I would like to pass the same lessons on to my kids that Dad passed on to me.............in the same way.

Failure has made me appreciate hunting more than the success has.

What are some of your plans with your children?