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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Duckslayer100" data-source="post: 172338" data-attributes="member: 1485">I have been on a hunt with an attentive, unarmed adult coaching his son. It was the day my dog almost died. The son, who clearly would have rather been at home playing video games, took too long trying to shoot a flushing planted pheasant that my oldest GWP pointed and, in a fit of rage/frustration, tried putting the hammer down to safe on his single-shot 12-gauge (for which his father INSISTED he use despite my best effort to suggest a gun that wasn't so prone to accidental discharge).Can you guess what happened next with good-old dad literally a finger tip away? Yup...gun went off right into the tall grass where my boy was on point. I literally felt my heart stop. I thought for sure he was toast and started screaming for Remy to come. Luckily his training was a bit rusty and he'd busted point just in the nick of time!So please, tell me how safe having a youngster at any age is with an adult within hearing distance, let alone touching distance, on a hunt. Shit happens, and putting a loaded weapon in the arms of a kid who has no business being around one is ridiculous. It's why I no longer do youth hunts. I'll take my own kids, but that's it. Part of the 12-year-old age limit has to do more with emotional maturity than anything. The changes in development on how a mind processes between 10 and 12 is insane. Heck, most kids at 10 still can't grasp what death is beyond a weird state of sleeping! Kurt, I agree with you that it's up to a parent if his or her kid is ready to hunt at a given age. I'll give you that. But I've been around parents who thought their kids were ready at a young age, and they definitely weren't. Just remember: There is no prerequisite to parenting. You don't need to pass a test to pass your genes. Stupid people are everywhere, and a lot of them reproduce.</blockquote>

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