Exposing the kids to hunting and the outdoors can be tough when the majority of your outings are extended affairs in distant spots and foul weather. I completely understand when kids don’t want to leave the house to go out in a rainstorm for an all-day hunt.
During the holidays, we had a chance to jump a few ducks off the pond, and that is just the ticket for a 3 year old to tag along.  The main goal of the outing was to get our 11 year old, Erin, a chance at a duck or two.

 As it turned out the ducks flew the opposite direction from where we were waiting for them to flush over us. Instead they flew over my uncle, Colby and he dropped one with his second shot. The duck fell in the field, so Sydney got the chance to be the retriever.

After searching the field, she examined the duck for quite a while before she picked it up. From that point on though, it was HER duck!

She marched it all the way back to the house, even making a stop to show off her prize to Mom, on the tractor.  All of a sudden Erin, became a mentor to her little sister when Colby and I were trying to mentor HER.  We had created an unintended bonding moment between sisters.