Hunted a beanfield near my house with my 5yr old son, 1st time I have taken him stillhunting. We did not even st up until 5:30 becasue I knew he would not be able to sit long. Had a medium sized doe come out into the field. We watched her feed for about 5 minutes and then a small spike pops out about20yds away. He made s small scrape, he was well within range, but we let him walk and watched him chase her all around the field. I was suprised thatmy sonwas not upset that I did not shoot. That spike was trying to work her over, but she was not having any part of it. After a while both deer headed across the field in the opposite direction feeding. I grunted just for the heck of it and they payed absolutely no attention. We did have a deer slip up on us in the woods behind us, but it winded us and heard us whispering, blew about 10 times and walked off. The ones in the field did not even pay attention to their buddies warning. They really did not even look up.

When we walked back in the house my boy started crying. He would not tell me what was wrong for a while, but he finally admitted that he wanted me to shoot the spike. I told him that that buck will be there another year and we will get him when he grows up. He finally settled down and seemed to understand why we let him go. Onlya few more days till muzzeloader!!