I am very excited to introduce my grandson Thomas Hale the hunter (age 11). 

Above, Thomas holds his first youth single shot shotgun intended for hunting snowshoe hares up in New Hampshire’s North Country.

He has graduated from .22LR and .223 Winchester to 20 gauge shotgun and 6.5 Creedmoor.

Together pictured below with his Dad Jason Hale, Thomas holds a scoped Howa 1500 rifle in 6.5 Creedmoor, which he shoots well. The 6.5 CM has less recoil than the 20 gauge.

It gives me great pleasure to see three generations of Hales’ who hunt.  Below left is my son Jason who hunted Africa with me and to the right of me is young grandson Thomas.

We believe hunting and fishing are essential for boys and girls to understand the natural beauty and responsibility gained in the circle of life.  Unfortunately, hunting and outdoor skills are so starkly absent in our government run K to 12 schools.  We as a family, love the outdoors and choose to develop survival and hunting skills that aid in maturing young male and female minds. 

Most importantly, where our meat and fish come from, along with the life and ethical death and respect of the game hunted. Importantly, we revel in the bounty of the food harvest, care of the meat, the cooking, and presentation of wild game around the family dinner table. Just imagine a warm venison or rabbit stew in the cold of winter. It put a big smile on my face! Yours too!

Additionally, safety was our utmost concern with Thomas. Accordingly, we spent time training and demonstrating how to shoot hold his rifle/shotgun around other hunters. Thus we created walking and turning drills to always carry and point the barrel in a safe direction. And it was fun too.

In this recent hunt we did not harvest any game but had great comradery on the hunt, told some tales of the hunt, and had some man time with father and grandfather. Hope you can get some too!

Good Hunting!