Thanks again guys. Blodg, my son is 5'2" and 124 lbs. Heck, we wear the same size boots! By the way, other than hunting, basketball is his favorite sport.

To his credit, he has been shooting a bow since he was two. And they said I was crazy! He started just flinging arrows with a small self bow. The he graduated to one of those little red "compound" bows. Then to a little larger version then to the real thing. His size definately helps but it is also about using the correct muscles to draw. He started drawing 35+- pounds with his hunting bow. We up'ed the pounds as we went along. Sometimes without telling him.

He hunted for most of last year and all of this year. We still stand together. We hunt from a ground blind and from two man ladder stands. I keep asking when he will be ready to seperate by thirty yards or so. He keeps telling me next year. I'm not going to push the issue.

It is funny, we go through scenarios as we sit in the tree and he picks his draw trees and such but he still likes me to tell him when to draw. When he is ready, he'll take over.

I wish you all the best with your boy. I hope every father gets to find out what it is like to watch his kids fall in love with hunting. I never truely understood it before but now, I can say that watching my son be successful is more fun than killing the deer myself.

Greg