Great suggestion/advice. I'll get him familiar with shooting sheet and see how he does. I don't know anyone with fields (I'm a public land owner 😉). Are their private pay to hunt fields in the Upstate that are any good? Feel free to DM me if U don't want to reply in front of the whole world. I...
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I've gotten mine into shooting and camping. My son can't sit still at 14 so deer hunting was no fun for him. However, I took him on a squirrel hunt with the crew from SC BHA and he enjoyed that. We even jumped some deer.
Left month, he asked if we could do a camping trip just...
Thanks DM. They're into camping and shooting. My son had a knack for iron sights. My wife is the Goldie on camping but I requested she make a list of every objection she had to camping in order of importance. I should have her list knocked out in a few weeks. If momma's on board, the kids will...
Been lurking and reading gear reviews & decided to join. If it's tasty and legal, I probably hunt it. Cut my teeth squirrel hunting in AL & MS. We would hunt squirrels in the morning, use the guts to catch catfish in the afternoon, and fish in the creeks when it got hot. Next thing on the list...
The average hunter I meet can't properly estimate distance. I can't imagine the average hunter correctly guessing the age of an animal even 30% of the time. Sometimes it's obvious an animal is "mature", sometimes it's not.