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Kids first time.

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Sparrow:
There is not a thing wrong with starting him on big game with a compound and then evolving into a higher form(Stickbow) as he gets bigger.Still,he needs to hunt small game and do his roving with his nice little 30 lb. He will see (As I did) that instinctive shooting is tons more fun than all that crap you got to do to get a wheelie bow shot off.
    Frank

hawkbow:
Every archer should shoot with the weapon he or she is most comfortable with... if your boy is proficient with the training wheels then he should hunt with it..nothing will turn him away from the sport faster than to wound a deer with a bow he is not comfortable with..after a harvest his confidence will be greater and the longbow or recurve will fit easily into his hunt... good luck ... hunt safe, hunt honorably and enjoy the journey with your son... HAWK   

dogface:
He got a pig ! He killed it dead ! Perfect shot. He did use wheels but it was a good hunt. On the ground and the distance was around 11 feet. now my boy is a little guy and his pig was a 150 pound pig. Not what many would brag about but when you are just barlet 4 feet tall and your weight is in the realm of double didgets a 150 pound hog is the Grendel. He was cool as a cucumber. I noticed him drawind down wile I was getting ready to fix a dry spot on the ground before it could spontaneously combust. I did not see pig until my boy stuck him but I sure herd it ! it ran a half circle into brush while my boy got another arrow on the string. I got back over to him and backed us off a bit th let the old hog lay down and die. As we sat I herd his arrow rattling on the riser and then he started to tremble. He was all eye balls and teeth the grin was so wide. I was laughing at him because his grand dad always did the same thing after an up close killing shot. I had him lay the ow down and while I had a smoke I asked him what he thought and he sed threw the killer's grin unique to my family "lets do it again" So the next generation is in the woods. His first kill is a big fat pig, And he says that he is ready for a big fat Griz. We will see what Mom says about that.

armymedic.2:
Thats great!  I'll never forget my first harvest and im sure he won't either.  You did the righ thing letting him hunt with the wheelie.  I let my wife hunt with my 223 or a 243, why?  cause she shoots them great and is comfy cozy with them=end result of dead stuff everywhere  ;D   im sure you are proud as heck, and by the way.....i weigh in around 170, an my biggest hog to date is 60 lbs.....i sure was proud of that one.  i told everyone!  tell your boy i say congrats, and to you for getting him out where he belongs, in the woods!

hawkbow:
Congrats! to your boy.. sharing the hunt with our kids is what it is all about..way to go, look forward to the pics of the harvest, Hawk

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