So one of my hunting partners & I decided to take my 8 year old (now 9 years old) out on a deer hunt in the hope that he could be a part of his first big game harvest in the woods. ....he had helped me with skinning & tasks like that on several occasions when I brought an animal home, but he never got to be a part of a harvest other than on small game up to that point....
My partner & I had harvested a bull elk so we were already good for meat, & his intention was to shoot a buck that had to have 4 tines at least on each antler...for me, my objective was to see game, spot legal game with my son, and let him make the decision whether or not to shoot it....so we make our way up the mountain to a ridgetop, but my boy only being 8 was slowing us down a bit so my partner and I decided to split up, he took the lower ridge, while my son & I took the higher ridge...
So when my son & I are at the top of the one ridge, we get to glassing right away, it was cold & windy, so at one point to keep his mind off the cold while I was glassing he decided to climb trees - perfectly fine by me...
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