Last hunting season, as I walked up the road to our designated meeting place for our annual family Thanksgiving Day hunt, I was pleasantly surprised to find two of my younger grandchildren, standing among our family group of deer hunters.
My grandson Ian, age 6, has participated in our family deer drives before, walking the drives with his dad or waiting on watch with me. He enjoys deer hunting with his father, uncles and cousins and already has a few deer hunting tales of his own. However, today was a special day, because his older sister Ashlyn, age 8, decided she wanted to join us.
John Delisle, Sr.: This year, plan to take a girl hunting
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