re: Daughters First Deer Hunt - How early is too early?

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My 9 year old son is hell on wheels. He loves to go and wants me to shoot everything that moves. I'm not letting him hunt alone until he's 25.

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My 14 year old shot his first one at 8. He has shot one a year until last year when he shot three.

It was awesome having him in a stand by himself last year. I have his little brother with me now. Hearing about his hunt thru his eyes is so much more fun than me seeing it myself. I encourage that as soon as you feel they are mature enough and safe enough to sit solo to do it, but every kid is so different. I had to wait until his excitement died a bit. He would think everything in the woods was a deer and every deer a buck for most of his life with me, I was nervous about that, so waited for him to mature.