Painting a Deer's Nose

[musketman]

I once, (when I was much younger, notice I didn't say smarter) Painted the nose "RED" on my brother's 8-point buck that he shot on the last day of Ohio's deer gun season...

Unbeknownst to my brother, he took our nephews (then 6 and 7 yeats old) down to the barn to show him the deer he just killed.

They went crying and screaming up to the house, mom came after me with a broom, my brother was ticked because he was going to have it mounted, Christmas was ruined...

All of a sudden, I was the bad guy

, but hey, I'm not the one who shot Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer either...

20 years later, my nephews still tell that story... I made an impression.

 

[Voyageur]

Each year when my children were young, around the first week in December, I gave them a choice...we could all wait until 'Santa' showed up or we could all pile in the car and go buy some reallllly neat toys! According to my kids that car really couldn't go fast enough.

Come Christmas day they read passages out of the Bible, sang Christian carols and honored Christ. 'Santa' was reduced to his proper place and Christmas was elevated to it's proper place. I don't ever recall suffering any trauma.

I worried about my daughter for nothing. The first time I took her out prairie dog hunting she carried the .22 Hornet. Her first shot took out a 'dog'. She immediately wanted to continue on but I said that we needed to make sure the 'dog' was dead. I had seen through the binoculars that the little 40 grain bullet had spread that critter from heck to breakfast but I wanted her to see the results of her handiwork and not just from a distance. We approached the remains and I asked what she thought. She looked down, said "That was a good shot, huh?...C'mon let's go." When she killed her first deer neither she nor I had any qualms.

 

[RJR]

I always have remorse over shooting any game animal, but it is only because I respect the animal and the challenge it gave prior to being outsmarted in it's own territory. Sounds as though you have her on the right track, as long as she understands that you kill for a purpose, not pleasure. Take care, Rick.