I took my 14 year old daughter deer hunting with me this year. Next year she goes solo.
No great cost, either. She’s using the old winchester model 94 that was my first gun. Her older sisters have already killed with this gun. She will be the fourth person to cut her “hunting teeth” on it.
As for time...How can you NOT spend time with your children?
If you had to lease the land to hunt on, you would see how expensive hunting has become.
Good grief! Is hunting the only way to spend time with your children?
I harvested my first deer (actually my first 4 deer) with a Savage 250-3000 that was purchased shortly after its introduction many a moon ago. It was the first rifle purchased by my late FIL, as he had theretofore hunted with inherited firearms. My husband shot his first deer with this rifle. This year my youngest will use this rifle for his first deer. We get a real kick out of the tradition.