Any proud Dad knows the answer....I took the bored boy, suited him up in full camo, strapped a set of binoculars and a grunt tube to his neck and headed off to the woods.
His smile in the back of the truck was so big I almost couldn't get in.
Obviously hunted from the ground, and took him to a spot I hung a deer skull from last year. I didn't tell him about it. After trudging through all kinds of nasty terrain, we made it to the "plateau". He saw the skull before I did and I acted surprised. I mouthed "BIG MEDICINE" and gave him the signal to be silent.
I had him grunt and move his feet in the leaves to mimic a deer. He was in his glory.
A squirrel was on the hill making a racket, Tyler couldnt see it. He thought we had called in a deer and we had a blast trying to coax in the "antlered" squirrel. He never saw it, and the excitement is still flowing through him as I write this.
As the magic hour came and the woods grew darker and deathly quiet, we slipped out. He did well, trying desperately not to be noisy.
While hunting, I let him whittle a stick to a sharp point and it has not left his hands. Man, I'm glad I took him out.
Take the kids with you when you can, its the most fun I've had all season.
Topic: Last day of archery:hunt hard or take my 8 yr old? (Read 339 times)
