My daughter (15yrs old) sometimes hunts with me and we've always used ground blinds or tree stands. This will be my first year in a saddle, but I want to start getting her ready to saddle hunt at some point too. I can just picture her up in a tree in late December hunting in a heater body suit swinging in her saddle
For tree stand hunting, we use either a double ladder stand or a pair of tree stands offset on the same tree. Might have to consider setting up on two trees next to each other (if they're close as I still like to be near her). Perhaps next year we could put some distance between us when she's 16.
Does anyone else get their kids up in a saddle and what have you tried that works?
Here she is at 11 with her first deer...
That pic was the following day after recovery. Normally she looks like this...
For tree stand hunting, we use either a double ladder stand or a pair of tree stands offset on the same tree. Might have to consider setting up on two trees next to each other (if they're close as I still like to be near her). Perhaps next year we could put some distance between us when she's 16.
Does anyone else get their kids up in a saddle and what have you tried that works?
Here she is at 11 with her first deer...
That pic was the following day after recovery. Normally she looks like this...