Got my moose horns back (well my sons)

[huntinlabs]

Will, do. Thank you for the offer! Good luck on making Tech! Keep taking your kids fishing & hunting, teach them how to use a firearm. After all, they are the future of our sport.

Thank you. Oh I will they love the outdoors both of them are excited about bear hunting this spring. I had a bout 5 black bears come in last year ine would be pushing 6 ft but couldn't connect on the big guy.

 

[huntinlabs]

Congrats on your hunt. Taking the boy with you while he is too young to hunt and him enjoying it almost assures that in a few years he will want to hunt beside you. IMHO too many guys wait until their kids are older but by that time many are lost to iPads and video games. A chance at the real thing is of little interest to them.

Very true my daughter's first time to hunt when she was a month and 3 days old. I took her deer hunting. I new it would be a real quick bow hunt. She was jealous and mad that I took my son and not her but she had school lol.

 

[Shootist43]

It was important to me that my sons grew up with a knowledge of the outdoors and hunting. They usually missed a week of school every year to come deer hunting with me. Homework assignments were requested in advance so the kids didn't fall behind. If you don't take them out when they are young, other activities will take priority. Hunting together provides "Quality Time" in a families' busy schedule. Throughout the year trips to the range and reloading bench when age appropriate are additional ways to deepen the bond. To those of you that have daughters, don't leave them behind thinking that hunting, fishing and camping are
"guy" things.

 

[huntinlabs]

It was important to me that my sons grew up with a knowledge of the outdoors and hunting. They usually missed a week of school every year to come deer hunting with me. Homework assignments were requested in advance so the kids didn't fall behind. If you don't take them out when they are young, other activities will take priority. Hunting together provides "Quality Time" in a families' busy schedule. Throughout the year trips to the range and reloading bench when age appropriate are additional ways to deepen the bond. To those of you that have daughters, don't leave them behind thinking that hunting, fishing and camping are
"guy" things.

I would never leave my daughter. She is my duck hunting partner because she loves to work my dog. That and she thinks ducks are cute lol. She will go bear hunting with me this year and hopefully the whole family can get out for caribou and moose.

 

[Shootist43]

That "my friend" is the proper way to raise a young lady. You are both lucky.

 

[huntinlabs]

That "my friend" is the proper way to raise a young lady. You are both lucky.

@Shootist43 I was upset when I learned I was having a daughter first. Now I wouldn' change it for the world (other than this little boy asking her to be his bus riding girlfriend. Not happy about that lol) I received death threats and all kinds of stupid stuff when my wife posted this picture on Facebook when she was 3 years old.

The other picture is her aiming down am arrow while bow hunting. That day she ruined me killing a really nice 8 point but how she did it was great.

We were back off in a natural ground blind watching this doe feed towards us. Behind her I'm the exact same line was a great 8 point. When the doe got right in front of us she whispers asking what she is doing. I tell her she is eating. Well my daughter was snacking on some chips. The buck at this point is at 50 yards and closing in fast I am getting pumped and set. As I am playing the shot in my head I start to draw back and my daughter ask what the deer is eating. I told her beans not thinking about anything else but that buck. Then I hear her yell. "Hey deer do you want a chip!?" My heart sank but I could do nothing but laugh as they both jumped and ran off. I never seen that buck after that. I didn't want to be mad I couldn't stop laughing. She knows how to be quiet as she has been in the stand with me before while I shot deer. But for some reason she wanted to know if that damn deer wanted a stupid chip lol.
That memory will never ever leave me and I still laugh about it today.

 

[Shootist43]

That was hilarious, thanks for sharing. Several minutes later I'm still laughing.

 

[huntinlabs]

That was hilarious, thanks for sharing. Several minutes later I'm still laughing.

It has been 3 years now and I still laugh about it lol. Although I would have loved to shoot that buck. Her yelling that is in is own way better for me.