What amazes me is some people making statements about a certain age being illegal to hunt deer like the one gent here in Michigan who said it's 14 years old to hunt deer with a gun. FYI buddy the age was lowered to 10 several years ago!!! I'm also glad a lot of these chaps were'nt my Dad as I was shooting small game with a rifle and shotgun at six years old. It's too bad we didn't have any deer to hunt until I moved up to MI when I was 15 or I'd have been shooting them at an early age too. In fact, many states have lowered the ages for kids to hunt now with or without a HE course for the first couple years. It is, after all, the parent that is out there with the kid and should know when he/she is mature enough to do certain things as long as they are legal.