Email from Steep and Cheap, Subject: Hunting with Kids

[Bitmap]

How do you like this:

Today's Deals on Steep and Cheap:

Hunting is pretty cool if you're a kid. You get to dress up in rad clothes and walk around in the forest with a loaded gun. I went deer hunting two years when I was a kid, and I never shot a deer. It's crazy to be given a gun and treated like an adult when you're only 12 years old; I don't think anyone at the hunting camp would have even blinked if I'd helped myself to a couple cans of Stroh's from the 30-pack on the table. I gave up hunting when I turned 14 after firing my gun only once over two years. My problem was that I listed to music on my headphones in the hunting stand and read books while waiting for deer to walk up and eat bark off my tree--or whatever it is that deer do when they think they're alone in the forest. My uncle would pick me up in his truck for lunch, and I'd jump about a foot in pure surprise when he called up to me from the base of the tree. I'm just not cut out for the stalking aspect of hunting.

Today on SteepandCheap we have the Reef Men's Dram Sandals, Smith District II Sunglasses, and Mountainsmith Sprint Lumbar Pack.

[TedH]

Sounds like he prefers to hug trees rather than use them for deer stands.

[kimwcook]

First off, it doesn't sound like camp was a family oriented camp. Then it seems he was left to his own devices in a tree stand to sit and do whatever an uneducated hunter would do. I probably wouldn't like hunting if I was treated like that growing up. Kids need to be kids, like bust some 22 rounds off, hunt with a mentor, and, get out and do some walking. Kids don't usually have the patience to sit to long in one place. It makes it drudgery instead of exciting. He didn't stalk anything by his own account.

[O.S.O.K.]

First off, it doesn't sound like camp was a family oriented camp. Then it seems he was left to his own devices in a tree stand to sit and do whatever an uneducated hunter would do. I probably wouldn't like hunting if I was treated like that growing up. Kids need to be kids, like bust some 22 rounds off, hunt with a mentor, and, get out and do some walking. Kids don't usually have the patience to sit to long in one place. It makes it drudgery instead of exciting. He didn't stalk anything by his own account.

Yep.

[AJMD429]

At least the guy MENTIONED hunting without being negative. I hate the "I killed a squirrel when I was a kid so now I am anti-gun" kind of pieces.

You DO have to hunt WITH the kid, and tailor it to their age/experience/needs. Same as anything else you do with a kid.