Congratulations to Emory. My son, Jonathan, killed his first at 8 or 9, can't remember exactly, with a Ruger No. 3, .45-70. His two sons killed their first at about the same age. When a kid is old enough to handle a gun safely, and shoot it accurately, and they want to hunt, they are ready, with proper supervision of course.

I was newly married when I killed my first buck, but there weren't any deer around here when I was a kid. I remember the first deer track I ever saw, in a dirt road on our place. I thought it was a goat track. blush

SRH

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