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The Basics, Starting Out
What age were your kids when they shot there first big game animal.
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<blockquote data-quote="Varminterror" data-source="post: 2211387" data-attributes="member: 96827"><p>We waited until my son was 5 before he did any hunting at all, despite starting him shooting at 2. We walked around the woods with a BB gun "squirrel hunting" and let him shoot walnuts and hedge apples from shooting sticks for a couple of years from 3-5, but he didn't really get any opportunities to actually take game until he was 5. I took him after whitetails when he was 7 for the first time. Basically, we determined his readiness to go after deer by a system of qualifying metrics:</p><p></p><p>1) understanding of shot placement and vitals positioning in various animal postures and angles of presentation</p><p></p><p>2) ability to deliver necessary precision on the clock with the rifle from field positions</p><p></p><p>3) physical readiness to manage the rifle and recoil (lightweight and short barreled rifle built for this purpose in 6.8 SPC)</p><p></p><p>4) Demonstrated ability to manage "buck fever/target panic</p><p></p><p>5) emotional readiness to take an animal's life with the respect it is due</p><p></p><p>6) demonstrated maturity and composure to sit for 6-12hrs in the blind</p><p></p><p>We offered the opportunity to him to hunt deer when he was 4 or 5, but the first year he simply wasn't capable of maintaining composure long enough. He also in those early years had extreme excitement about successful kills without metered consideration of the gravity of taking life, and THEN his pendulum swung back the other way - he was more appropriately excited about the hunt and the harvest, but he'd later in the day cry because the squirrels, rabbits, and woods rats he'd shot wouldn't ever get to see their family again. But finally when he was 7, everything clicked and he was ready to go.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Varminterror, post: 2211387, member: 96827"] We waited until my son was 5 before he did any hunting at all, despite starting him shooting at 2. We walked around the woods with a BB gun “squirrel hunting” and let him shoot walnuts and hedge apples from shooting sticks for a couple of years from 3-5, but he didn’t really get any opportunities to actually take game until he was 5. I took him after whitetails when he was 7 for the first time. Basically, we determined his readiness to go after deer by a system of qualifying metrics: 1) understanding of shot placement and vitals positioning in various animal postures and angles of presentation 2) ability to deliver necessary precision on the clock with the rifle from field positions 3) physical readiness to manage the rifle and recoil (lightweight and short barreled rifle built for this purpose in 6.8 SPC) 4) Demonstrated ability to manage “buck fever/target panic 5) emotional readiness to take an animal’s life with the respect it is due 6) demonstrated maturity and composure to sit for 6-12hrs in the blind We offered the opportunity to him to hunt deer when he was 4 or 5, but the first year he simply wasn’t capable of maintaining composure long enough. He also in those early years had extreme excitement about successful kills without metered consideration of the gravity of taking life, and THEN his pendulum swung back the other way - he was more appropriately excited about the hunt and the harvest, but he’d later in the day cry because the squirrels, rabbits, and woods rats he’d shot wouldn’t ever get to see their family again. But finally when he was 7, everything clicked and he was ready to go. [/QUOTE]
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