Good for you. And great bonding experience with the kids, I'd bet.
I'm not much of a hunter myself but I've been a few times with friends and have one deer to my name. That's gotta be as big a rush for the little guys as it was for you. I was thinking maybe my guys were too young for hunting but.... yours looks almost the same age as mine (7 & 5). Maybe I should take them.
I've been teaching them to shoot over the summer. Just an old Daisy pump-action BB gun from 20-30 feet into a laundry detergent bottle. And a couple well-supervised trigger pulls on my old .22 varmint rifle (AKA the "Groundhog Slayer"). Boys and guns.... like it's wirtten in their DNA to love them.
Maybe I should dust off my 30-ought and drag them up the mountains with me. I dunno. Maybe. Got me thinking, anyway.
Like I said, hunting isn't really my bag, although I know what I'm doing with a rifle just fine. Not sure I'd feel comfortable trying it myself with the kids. Probably best if I find a group or organization that could arrange a hunting trip that's kid-accessible. Anything like that out there, guys? Any recommendations?