Thread: Introducing kids to the bush

A friend took his four year old son ( now a grown man) out possuming every day on Mt Oxford one winter ( this was tough commercial stuff, skinning lines and laying new poison lines). He said that looking back he felt guilty that he had been too hard on him but that it had actually done no harm. Started my boy going rabbit shooting when he was three. He would lead the dog and loved feeding the dog shot rabbits. By four he could walk the hills with his own mustering stick, walk in the dark without fear ( this takes time) and help find a deer with his headlamp then hold a back leg while I gutted it at 10pm.
Another local bloke is waiting to take his five year old out hunting but the boy has already formed anti hunting ideas, so he has left it too late.

If you have a dog and the kids love the dog, shooting stuff for the kid to feed to the dog gives them a blast