how to convince my wife to let 4 year old tag along with me?

[Rooster1981]

Good on you dad, never to young to get your kids out into the woods 

[2MANY]

Who does she think she married??

Quit asking for permission and get back to being the man she married.

[HUNTINCOUPLE]

Awesome thread!!!! Our now 5yr old has been hunting with the wife and I since she was born. Now at 5yr old she is packing all our packs with snacks and water and telling us to hurry up we might miss the Bigun!!!!!!,  Sounds like you will be making some great memories soon!  Its funny how the memories you make out fishing and hunting are remembered more than others.............     Oh ya we are packing for our family two week archery elk hunt with our new addition our 4 month old son.

[Old Man Yager]

Easier to ask for forgiveness than permission!! 😳 started taking my son out very young, Mom didn't like it so much then, but now he's 17 and he's not happy unless he's in the woods, or on a lake or river. Any time Mom says anything now about how much time we spend our doors, I remind her of the free time she gets when we go. That makes her happy!!

[2labs]

Leave a note. Jr.s with me

[beaslayer6]

she will be fine and she will remember every min of it. We just had our first kid a month ago. She has been bear hunting with me 5 times and a 5 day deer trip. The younger the better.

[steen]

Sounds like you won the battle but....Even if you have the biggest fight of your married life over the ordeal.....TAKE THAT LITTLE GIRL HUNTING!

My daughter was 3 when she saw her first deer shot. I had one of those second deer tags for does and we sat in a pop-up blind for 3 nights in early September. I let her put black face paint ALL OVER her face and she drank 247 juice boxes in those 3 days. We capped it off by sticking a doe on the 3rd night. She was shaking worse than I was when it all happened. It was one of the best days of my life....and her's!

Now she's 15.....hunting is THE one thing that we still share together since I'm not very cool anymore. She has killed more bucks at 15 (4 in a row) than I did until I was in my 20's. She is one of the girliest girls you will ever meet but she loves to hunt deer.

I can't express through words how important this could be for the 2 of you. Hunting with my daughter turned out to be WAY MORE IMPORTANT than any hunt I ever did with either of my sons.

There is no such thing as too many snacks!!!

I can't believe she drank that many drinks.....did she go pee 5000 times? Lol

[throttlejocky20]

When i got married my ex wife was not a fan of hunting or guns. I made it very clear that i grew up around it and so will my boys weather she liked it or not. I started bringing my boys along before they could talk. By the time the oldest was 5 he was torching off his 243. now both boys are 4 and 7 and they both love hunting, fishing, shooting, and archery. Its a right of passage for the next generation.

By no means should a mother be able to keep the children from enjoying what god has to offer. Taking children in the woods at a young age creates memories they will never forget. not to mention memories you will never forget.

[robescc]

I tool my oldest daughter out on the opening day of bear season when she was three months old. She is seven now and goes with me all the time. My second daughter is 16 months old and hasn't gone with me yet but she will be just as hard core as the oldest. They both love to be outside and tagging along with their Papa.

[TheHunt]

Took my kids out and had a blast.  I would highly recommend it. 

[Ghost Hunter]

Can't start them early enough.  I worry about when the grandkids will be allowed to join.

[JDHasty]

My six-year old daughter went out hunting w/me and we managed to bag a cow elk.  She goes where I go. 

She grabbed a rear hock and held it over so that I could cut around the vulva and start the cut to empty the intestines out.  If she had not been there I would have used a rope, but it was mucho easier with her giving me a hand. 

Once my buddies got there with the tarps and game bags they took over and she became pretty much a spectator, but the part she played certainly was helpful. 

Of course w/kids there are always little things that "get a bit sideways," she left the case to her 6x30 Leupold Yosemite Binocular and her Hoochie Mama elk caller laying in the field but a buddy went up a couple days later and was able to backtrack where we had been hunting and he fetched them home for her.

There have been a couple times when kids have got a coyote set busted or someo sameo w/a great deer stand that we were working a trophy blacktail from.  So what?  Tomorrow's another day, we will try again tomorrow.  A young kid really doesn't care all that much if you bring home a nice mature blacktail buck or a fork-horn.  As long as you are not a jerk about it, nobody will ever know the difference and unless you have your head firmly implanted it won't make that much difference to your experience either.       

When she was four we were at Northwest Trek and people were commenting on the Canadian geese, she said they sure are beautiful......... and after you pull all their feathers out they have meat inside.  My wife was sitting there kinda' in a state of shock after that remark.  But my daughter didn't even notice that what she had said off the cuff left a pretty big impression on the naturalist who was on the tram w/us that day.  she was just taking part in the conversation going on and after the tram tour he complemented me on her familiarity with the wildlife and the habitat when he asked questions and when she commented about the geese having meat in side it wasn't the least bit controversial to her, she was just talking about Canadian geese.