I started taking my son with me when he was 3. He carried a plastic stock off of a 22, no barrel. He took his first deer, a doe, when he was 6. He took 2 last year, a doe and a spike. They might as well be monsters to him and I both. I think I have more pictures of his deer than all of mine combined. He can't wait until this weekend, our opening weekend. I get so caught up in him hunting that I often forget I have a gun too. I haven't taken a deer in two years...... It's an experience like no other.