Side note.....so my 11 year old and I are hunting a point this morning up around Padilla Bay. An eagle flys about 10 yards over us nice and slow (when they've never been shot at they do that like Swans or other protected animals).
The action was slow.
The boy says "wouldn't it be cool if you could shoot those? It would be so easy."
I've been working on my talk with him since then. I've got it about ready.
We are cleaning guns tonight and will have the talk then.
Like dads who don't have the sex talk I have apparently been remiss about some conservation issues. I thought I was on that [censored].
I realized I've never told him about us almost wiping out the eagles and how we got them back. Education on it's way.