hunting with newborn

Bigbubba said:
PCH: there is generally no more risk to hunting than a walk in the woods. Assuming hearing protection is used. The risk that could occur should you get a shot at a deer (especially if it is close to dark) is now you have to go look for it. If you make a good shot you wont look far. If the shot is marginal you may be tracking this deer in the dark for a long while. This is an opportunity to slip fall, get lost etc.

All kidding aside you wont save any money hunting for food vs buying it at the store. After you get your PAL(s) at $100 a pop then get deer tags @ $47 each then buy rifles/ammo/clothing you will easy have $1000 in it before you are out the door. But it is lots of fun and I would recommend taking your children hunting, however if it were me I would wait a couple more years - say 8-9-10 years old.

But that's just my op. If you do go, have fun & be careful.
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gonna have the PAL, the gun, the clothes anyway.
only marginal cost is tag, ammo, gas.
 
I guess if you or your GF did shoot a deer you could just kind of put the kid inside the Ribs while dragging it out to the subaru.You are probably pretty safe though as mentioned, you have a hell of a long way to go before you can hunt legally with a cool sounding pump shotgun . Your kid will likely be one or two by the time you actually get your PAL in your hand. Have you thought of wildlife photography ? the baby can call the critters in, your wife can pose and you can start as soon as you like and it possesses all of the same inherent dangers of hunting and hiking with a newborn .
 
signed up for the course in 2 weeks, how you figure the pal will take 2 years?

we don't drive a subaru.

we have a pick-up truck and a tractor.

kid can ride on my lap while i haul the deer in the loader!
 
have you seen the wait times for a pal these days .You do the course in two weeks you wait forever for your paperwork you get your paperwork and then you send it off and wait another eternity for processing . Then you order a firearm and wait for the seller to ship it and come on here and crab about wait times . I am sure there are ways to have a gun within a week of completing your course but in the CFO world you don't just go out and buy a gun after your last night in the course . just haul the deer out in your loader ... are you talking about shooting a deer off of ma and pa's porch when you talk about hunting ? well crap son if all you want to do is yard hunt set up the playpen and lasso the little bastards.
 
Mil Specs said:
have you seen the wait times for a pal these days .You do the course in two weeks you wait forever for your paperwork you get your paperwork and then you send it off and wait another eternity for processing . Then you order a firearm and wait for the seller to ship it and come on here and crab about wait times . I am sure there are ways to have a gun within a week of completing your course but in the CFO world you don't just go out and buy a gun after your last night in the course . just haul the deer out in your loader ... are you talking about shooting a deer off of ma and pa's porch when you talk about hunting ? well crap son if all you want to do is yard hunt set up the playpen and lasso the little bastards.
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well that's unfortunate about the wait times! i was told by course supplier about 2 months. way off?
i can go get a hunting license the next day and take my bow out though, right?
not off parents porch, but maybe a buddy's yard. or i know a guy with 100acres by 7&62 that would let me hunt it in exchange for some backhoe work. he has let me take firewood in exchange for backhoe work, so i'm sure he would be down.

i couldnt lasoo anything.
 
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popcanhunter said:
grandparents no
neighbors no

friends of the family maybe a weekend or two over the course of the season

whats wrong with the woods?
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Absolutely nothing, until for some reason there is medical emergency for a new mom or baby.
I think for myself, the only reason this could be doable, is if the wilderness to be hunted, is just behind your backyard of your modern residential house.
Momma and baby stay home, nice and comfy. While daddy, (alone or with Yeller) takes a walk in the nearby woods.
Otherwise, the formula is ripe for disaster, even if you do have quick access to blacktop, & a short drive to the next town for help.


Besides, changing diapers, and babyfood preparation, is daunting at the best of times, but you want to put your partner through that in the forest w/o modern con's??

Hunting is ridiculously expensive for most of us, regardless of yearly income. The economics of a single limited budget for a new family with new baby does not compute IMO.
Stay close to home for a year or two or three or four, the money wasted on hunting is presently needed elsewhere.

my two bits........
 
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