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How many times do you take a youngster hunting ?
11-01-2005, 06:09 AM
#11
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Posts: 2,358
RE: How many times do you take a youngster hunting ?
My sons are 13 and 15 and have been hunting with me for 4 years now. Currently I take them everytime I am duck/goose hunting and every time I gun hunt for deer (coming up soon this year). I also take them on NH Youth waterfowl, turkey and deer weekends.
the price I pay is I won't shoot as many deer, cause they get the shot, the payoff is my kids are learning the right way, they are safe, and most of all I get to spend alot of quality time with them. My oldest will need his own license next fall and can hunt on his own. Not sure how often we will turn him loose totally on his own, but at a minimum I can put him in a stand and leave him there.
The look on the face of their first shots is priceless.
the price I pay is I won't shoot as many deer, cause they get the shot, the payoff is my kids are learning the right way, they are safe, and most of all I get to spend alot of quality time with them. My oldest will need his own license next fall and can hunt on his own. Not sure how often we will turn him loose totally on his own, but at a minimum I can put him in a stand and leave him there.
The look on the face of their first shots is priceless.
11-01-2005, 06:28 AM
#12
New Sheriff
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: SW Arkansas
Posts: 4,591
RE: How many times do you take a youngster hunting ?
My boy is 9. He goes with me every time I go when there is a gun or muzzle loader season open. He missed one last weekend but we will get em this weekend.
It's the coolest thing I have ever done, watching him learn and become addicted just like I was. I wouldn't trade it for the world.
That said, thank God for bowseason where I can get a little peace and quiet on the stand...lol
It's the coolest thing I have ever done, watching him learn and become addicted just like I was. I wouldn't trade it for the world.
That said, thank God for bowseason where I can get a little peace and quiet on the stand...lol
11-01-2005, 06:40 AM
#13
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Muncie,IN
Posts: 42
RE: How many times do you take a youngster hunting ?
My 11 year old went turkey hunting with me on 2 trips this year.I will take him every week end of gun season untill he is out of tags.He usually goes and sets in the stand with me during bow season once or twice a year.Plus all the squirrel hunting we do,I think he has the bug as bad as I do!!
11-01-2005, 07:00 AM
#14
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location:
Posts: 1,758
RE: How many times do you take a youngster hunting ?
I dont have any kids of my own, but the kids that live around me are constantly asking me to take them. Whenever they ask me i take them. I remember when i was that age and always wanted to go but i was too afraid to ask all the older people to take me. Plus i am only 19 so it is fun to have them out there with me.
11-01-2005, 07:05 AM
#15
Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 29
RE: How many times do you take a youngster hunting ?
I have a 14 year old and a 12 year old. They go every chance they get and my 14 year old is starting to hunt by himself. He got to shoot at his first buck with a bow, but no luck. I will say that it makes me proud when the 14 year old gets up on his own and goes hunting with his friend down the road. I know that they have "hunted" moe than me this year. Although I think I have put in moer stand time than them.
11-01-2005, 08:15 AM
#16
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Southern WI
Posts: 1,766
RE: How many times do you take a youngster hunting ?
Like american express, I don't leave home without them. I have ALWAYS taken my son with and many times my daughter. It has made for memories that will last a lifetime. Now I take my girl friends son too. I can't remember the last time I went to the woods without one of them.
