Although I support your decision to stay home, I would have still gone, just to camp and look around.
No pressure on him, just a camping trip.
My kids love to camp and I look forward to the day they have hunting licenses.
A weekend in the woods is way better than a weekend at home.
It is O.K. not to want to shoot something, that thought still goes through my head at "the moment", but not going out in the woods if you are not going hunting (or ready to kill)
seems to me like just giving up, and might instill a "forget it if I cannot get something" attitude.
I mean no offence, my kids are not ready yet, and I am still learning how to be a father myself (8 years)
But they go "hunting" without weapons now, if they were old enough to have a license and tag, and we had planned on going, we would still go.
They just don't "have" to shoot if/when presented with the opportunity.
I know I do not, and will not change plans to go camping just because someone doesn't want to shoot an animal.
I try to teach my kids that I am going to keep my word, and plans that are made days/weeks in advance are only changed in the event of an emergency.
As I said, it is O.K. if he did not want to hunt, but I would have still gone and sat around a campfire, talked to other hunters, maybe taken a walk and spent the time in the woods.
Who knows, he might have a change of heart, but staying at home,
