What age did you start your kid hunting?

[couesbitten]

now he sleeps with his M-4 and is looking forward to hunting the Taliban's!

   Very cool, I'll say a prayer that your son is kept safe, and tell him thank you for me.

My son tool hunters ed when he was 9, first deer hunt when he was 10, killed his first buck (6x6 muley) when he was 11, first elk (4x4 bull) when he was 12, and is pretty much my only hunting partner today at 15.  He says that elk camp is his favorite trip of the year, so I think I did something right with him as well.

[Everett]

I think I was 9 or 10 when my dad taught me how to shoot.  I shot the back window of his pickup out with the .22, but other than that we were pretty safe.  I took hunter training right around that time also.  I think it is better to learn how to operate a weapon safely at a young age, so that it will stick.  I believe a lot of gun violence could be prevented if gun safety was taught to everyone at a young age.

[lokidog]

Most gun violence could be prevented just by having a dad around at a young age.....   

[Everett]

Yeah, No Kidding.

[hoyt2002]

my girl wanted to last year at 9 so we took a hunter safety course she passed the written test with a 97 but had trouble on the field course. but i had trouble with the instructors. they did a horrible job and scared the kids more than teached. she wants to go back as long as it's not those instructors. they got in trouble a few classes later and had to do some "extra training" but we are going again this year after she turns 10 and my boy at 9 wants to go too.

[trophyhunt]

My daughter passed the course when she was 10, just got her first deer this year at 14.