Well I was a guide for waterfowlers and deer hunters so my kids got accustomed to the hunting scene early. I was also a skeet shooter who taught that a little also. My daughter turned out to be a good shooter with a shotgun. Kilt her first goose after taking the huinters safety course at the age of 8(aced it too). She still hunts..as do my grandkids. Granddaughter is an excellent bow shooter. Missed one this year because of buck fever. Grandson got a couple. He shot his first goose at the age of 9. Pretty good shotgun pointer also. If you bring 'em up knowing that life isn't like Disney they usually understand the whole hunting experience. Of course it helped that they grew up on a farm with my wife and I. A little anecdote. My daughter went to visit a friend at the age of about 10. The kids mother made 'em toast with Smuckers Strawberry jam. Took a bite..spit it out and said that it was the worst stuff she ever put in her mouth. She was just a kid..who had never had boughten jam..almost always had game to eat cept hogs etc we grew. We grew almost all of our own foods..and things like cookies and cakes..were all homemade...and not from a box. Oh..we gave the kids mother some real homemade strawberry jam..told us she understood after she ate it. LOL Hunting IS a family affair for the most part
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