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re: OT Parents that Hunt - How early do you teach kids about killing animals?
Posted on 10/25/17 at 12:23 pm to eScott
Posted on 10/25/17 at 12:23 pm to eScott
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Some people will hang them upside down and bleed them.
oh no doubt. I was just saying my dad wasn't actually slitting the things throat in front of me, dead or alive, at the age of 4.
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Posted on 10/25/17 at 12:27 pm to StringedInstruments
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Said his dad trapped raccoons and opossums and slit their throat with a knife to let them bleed out.
Ive trapped a lot of coons, never once did that.....
and... deer guns don't blow deer's heads off...
i'm calling bullshite... kid getting that from someone that don't know..
my son was with me in a blind/stand at 3 years old.... saw the circle of life at an early age when a coyote came in and snatched a rabbit in a food plot we were watching.
Posted on 10/25/17 at 12:53 pm to StringedInstruments
My kids are addicted to deer meat. They know that when we run out of sausage, something's gonna die.
Posted on 10/25/17 at 1:22 pm to StringedInstruments
Sounds very much like 4 year old imagination running wild to me. The kid probably has been taught as little about hunting but those elaborate stories are nonsense.
Posted on 10/25/17 at 1:24 pm to StringedInstruments
My daughter was 3 when she saw me clean a deer. My son was 2.
2 years ago my daughter caught a bass and it wasnt a real big one but she wanted to keep it. When we got home I told her Id clean it for her so we could eat it. I scaled it and cut the head off and she pitched a fit. She thought I was going to clean it with soap and water lol. She got over it once she ate some. Now they understand what fishing and hunting is about.
2 years ago my daughter caught a bass and it wasnt a real big one but she wanted to keep it. When we got home I told her Id clean it for her so we could eat it. I scaled it and cut the head off and she pitched a fit. She thought I was going to clean it with soap and water lol. She got over it once she ate some. Now they understand what fishing and hunting is about.
Posted on 10/25/17 at 1:35 pm to StringedInstruments
Posted on 10/25/17 at 2:04 pm to StringedInstruments
A lot of parents seem to stress the importance of the kill more than the importance of the hunt. There is so much more to killing an animal for food than just pulling the trigger.
Posted on 10/25/17 at 2:15 pm to celltech1981
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There is so much more to killing an animal for food than just pulling the trigger.
Like what?
Posted on 10/25/17 at 2:21 pm to saintsfan1977
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Like what?
Well, first you have to look through the scope. Then you make sure the safety is off. Only then should you pull the trigger.
Posted on 10/25/17 at 3:16 pm to StringedInstruments
I was raised around around it and it was normal to me as far back as I remember. I killed my first Squirrel when I was 5 or 6 and my first deer around 7-8yo. I was taught gun safety again as far back as I remember. I still get uncomfortable around most adults today when they have a fire arm, because I was raised around strict gun safety and responsibility and people just don't treat guns with the amount of respect I was raised to treat them with.
Posted on 10/25/17 at 3:28 pm to TheDrunkenTigah
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To headshotting deer
This is a bit ridiculous. I know a few idiots I grew up with and the supposedly headshot ever doe they ever shot. I've been hunting for 30yrs and only things I've put headshots on are small game like rabbits and squirrels and varmints. Seems a bit messy to headshot a deer. Hell, they bleed enough on a neck shot, don't need a headless deer leaking all over my shite.
Posted on 10/25/17 at 3:37 pm to StringedInstruments
Living on land out of the city, my kids have seen death from very early on (2yo up). I make a point to let them know that I respect the animal's life and are only killing it for a reason. I don't take any pleasure in the act of killing and make sure they know it.
The only one I worry about is my 12 yo son. He may be a sociopath.
The only one I worry about is my 12 yo son. He may be a sociopath.
Posted on 10/25/17 at 3:40 pm to olgoi khorkhoi
Posted on 10/25/17 at 3:48 pm to cas4t
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My pop sure wasn't slitting critters throats in front of me. And he's as baw as they come.
I had to help my dad kill chickens for the first time when I was six. It was uncomfortable then and it still is now. That’s just how killing is.
Posted on 10/25/17 at 3:53 pm to Masterag
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I had to help my dad kill chickens for the first time when I was six. It was uncomfortable then and it still is now. That’s just how killing is.
Ringing necks is easier and you dont get blood everywhere. I have done it numerous times.
Posted on 10/25/17 at 3:54 pm to StringedInstruments
Pretty simple. I’ve taught my kids that you should only kill animals for one of three reasons:
1. Food
2. Actual or potential risk of damaging property
3. Risk of harming persons or pets
1. Food
2. Actual or potential risk of damaging property
3. Risk of harming persons or pets
Posted on 10/25/17 at 4:31 pm to saintsfan1977
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Ringing necks is easier and you dont get blood everywhere. I have done it numerous times.
We didn’t ring necks, we used a big arse cleaver.
Posted on 10/25/17 at 4:45 pm to Masterag
My kids were exposed to hunting, game cleaning at as early from the day they could see. It's a big part of our life. Heck, my daughter became a vet and she digs surgery. And yes, she bow hunted this morning. 
And yes, she bow hunted this morning. 
Posted on 10/25/17 at 4:47 pm to UncleRuckus
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I try to find the perfect age when my kids are becoming emotionally attached and can hold up a gun, then I make them kill the family pet
Posted on 10/25/17 at 7:33 pm to fishfighter
yeah, i was at my grandpa's side as soon as i could walk at the farm. I saw birthing, dying, branding(hated it then and hate it now), butchering, skinning, everything.
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