We ran across a field full of gray crows - they are fairly prevalent in Texas this time of year. Here's a pic along with my retriever - at eight years, he's finally getting the hang of it. These were shot in Poteet, Texas last weekend.
My favorite part of that pic is the EAR PLUGS hanging around that boys neck. Very Very Very, good parenting. I wish I would have had someone start me out like that My ears although protected now are very bad from years and years of total ignorants. Great pic!!!! Aint no Irish in that boy is there?????? LOL!!!!
He's learning to hunt - ear plugs and eye protection included. At eight, he's got a few years to go before he shoots at a live bird. Last year he carried a long stick and practiced gun safety between retrieves. This year he carries an empty .410 while we are in the field and treats it as if it were loaded. He targets shoots at still targets this year and in the next year or so, I'll take him to the skeet range and start him out on the #8 low house. He'll be shooting at live birds safely when he's 11 or 12. Thanks to both of you for the kind comments and yep - you're right, probably a little Irish in him.
Here's another pic from a couple of years ago - it is his grandfather's favorite pic.
My favorite part of that pic is the EAR PLUGS hanging around that boys neck. Very Very Very, good parenting. I wish I would have had someone start me out like that My ears although protected now are very bad from years and years of total ignorants. Great pic!!!! Aint no Irish in that boy is there?????? LOL!!!!
Ditto on the ear plugs. I can't hear worth a flip now.
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Please don't think I am critizing your decisions at all. I am not. It is funny how times have changed. When I was a kid (back in the dark ages) kids in my family were almost born with a BB gun in their crib. I was holding my own on a dove field by age 10 and kicking most of the non-related adults behind by 13. Started setting my own deer stand before age 10. My brother killed his first buck at age 7 with a 410 slug. He was sitting a cutover by himself with my father a couple hundred yards away.
Nowadays it seems folks have a much greater respect for guns and kids are getting a much later start. I have two daughters and they both hunt as does their mother. My eldest daughter killed her first two deer at age 11. The second one she was sitting by herself. By her request. We had radios to keep in touch with each other. Nowadays everyone uses cells. LOL
The important thing is to start them out right and teach them safety, woodsmandship, and good ethics. And you are on the right track there sir. Keep up the good work.
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I hunt therefore I am!
If you are not stepping forward, you are stepping backwards. Time stands still no for No Man.
We ran across a field full of gray crows - they are fairly prevalent in Texas this time of year. Here's a pic along with my retriever - at eight years, he's finally getting the hang of it. These were shot in Poteet, Texas last weekend.
I'll bet that retriever is just like a real son to you, eh?
My ears although protected now are very bad from years and years of total ignorants. Great pic!!!! Aint no Irish in that boy is there?????? LOL!!!! 
