I usually don't hunt with anyone else in the stand. I always live by the mentality that the one blind that I am not sitting at is going to havea buck of a lifetime at it, plus I like to enjoy mother nature at her finest and it's easierto do that alone. I usually only hunt with someone if I am teaching them to hunt, Was up to late "hanging out" with hunting partners and need a nap during the morning hunt or after an all nite drive into camp. Plus I find that I spend a lot of time with my father on the drive hunt (5+ hours) at lunch and after the evening hunt.

Jimmy, I hope you don't mind, but I have to respectfully disagree. I learned in my teenage hunting years that my dad enjoyed it a lot more for me to harvest a deer. I used to hold out for a wall hanger and finally he told me that he had shot over 40 deer in his life, the greatest thing he could experience now was to see how happy I would be harvesting any deer, not just a wallhanger. The next day on our trip I harvested a decent 3x3 mule deer. I was so excited and my dad didn't want to stop taking pictures. He was too proud.

I learned the same thing a few years back, was deer hunting with two buddies that had never got a deer before. The only thing I wanted was for them to harvest a deer. After hearing my buddy shoot and making my way to his stand and seeing the smile that he had got his first deer. Awesome.

I think it all depends has your dad taken a trophy deer? Have you? My dad has taken some beautiful whitetails, mule Deer, a bull moose and a nice Elk. He has yet to experience me to take a decent whitetail buck and I know that is what he really wants more than anything. Id figure it out before hand, but prepare for something like, "My scope is fogged up, you take it, i'll back you up." Good luck to you and your dad, I hope to see a picture of both of you with matching 10 pointers this fall!