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KIDS AND HUNTING
Luke caught this 5 1/2 lb, 21" bass while fishing with a magic worm.
Starting your kids in hunting at an early age is a good way to spend quality time with them. Their young minds seem to absorb knowledge at this age and hunting is something that will last with them thru a life time. In some states they have limited the age of when kids can hunt, basically until their teenage years, which is a real shame. My son, Luke, is 8 years old, and started shooting crossbows at the age of 6, (with parental guidance of course),. He enjoys walking around the yard with his hickory bow, pvc quiver strapped to his back and 2 arrows, while shooting at a plastic pop bottle that he throws out about 10 yards away. The draw weight on his bow is only about 20 lbs, if that.
Me and Luke enjoy archery season. Alot of fall days and with a long archery season, that's alot of time to spend together. He would like to deer hunt with his long bow, but here in Ohio a bow minimum weight is 40 lbs, so he isn't quit ready for that yet. But I recon that's one good thing about hunting in Ohio, they don't have a problem with the crossbow, and every year for the last couple years, me and Luke start out about august and go thru september shooting our crossbows every now and then, and he's actually quit good with his crossbow. I recon this is just another example of why crossbows should be allowed in every state and why they should lower the hunting age in those states that are denying kids and their parents to spend this quality time together.
Take the time to take your kids hunting, it will be as much fun for you as it is for them. But always make sure safety comes first.
Lukes first deer Nov, 20. 2005, a doe taken with a muzzleloader in Oak Hill, Ohio.
Scott Adkins
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