Everyone has their own way of bringing their kids into hunting and they do it at different ages. In Missouri the youngest legal hunters are 6. Of coarse not all 6 year olds are ready. But watching hunting shows is one way to prepare them. I made my first kill at 4 years old. It was a sparrow in a grapevine that I was shooting at with a bb gun. It was more of a lucky shot than skill, but I loved the fact that I had hit that bird. I gave my daughter her first bbgun at 4 and taught her to use it. As far as I know she has never tried to kill anything with it, but has used it to sting varmints in the yard to run em off. But when she was 10 she wanted to deer hunt. She shot my AR-10, 308 very well, and killed her first buck at first light on her first day. She had her pick of two bucks that came at each other and locked antlers about 50 yds away. In the past 8 years she has hunted some years and passed on others, but wants to hunt with me this year. She wanted to go practice with that same 308, and we did so last week. She is 18 and still shoots well, and I am very proud of her when I see her teaching the neighbor boys ages 6 and 8 to shoot her first bb gun. Their mother was a little scared at first but said it was ok. With their father passed on from a heart attack at age 33 they need someone to teach them. And those boys love hunting shows!