Autumn is a great time of year for fathers and for sons. It's a wonderful season for dad to get to know his boy, and for that boy to get to know his father.
You see, fall is the season when we clean up the old musket and head for open country to hunt. And father, what a mistake you make if you overlook this opportunity to show your lad the fundamentals of good sportsmanship, rules and regulations that mark a good hunter, and yet can be applied every day living. This is your chance to let that lad see that his dad lives according to the rules…that he obeys the law even when there is no enforcement officer looking over his shoulder. It's a chance to teach all the many natural wonders of our world… to exhibit to the boy the fact that we are so dependent one upon the other…to show him the important role the farmer plays in our economy and that by playing the game with him, he'll play the game with us.
It's a chance for dad to spend an entire day with his youngster in close communion with nature and with one another, without any interference. Here is an opportunity to show the boy that it's the fun of the hunt that counts, not the size of the bag... but there is real joy in being outsmarted by one of God’s creatures just when you feel your smug best. The field is a proving ground for a lad. He gains a great respect for firearms… he learns infinite patience as he sits possibly for hours waiting for a chance at a flight of swift ducks… he gets the glow of a great wonderful tiredness that comes from slugging it out across open fields and through wet marshes, and he sees his dad possibly for the first time in a new setting… and it's all man-to-man.
My friends, I repeat… autumn is a wonderful season for father and son… and please remember this… the father that hunts with his boy today will not be out hunting FOR his boy tomorrow.
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