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Mom and son pose at the event before turkey hunting.
By Heidi Stanislawski Suchan, Special to OutdoorChannel.com
HUNTINGDON, Tenn. – Thank God for hair dye. Little boys should automatically come with it – or at the very least a ton of Nice ‘n Easy coupons in the goody bag from the hospital.
I’m sure I earned several dozen more gray hairs in the days approaching my son’s first hunt. The plan was to take him turkey hunting, and the gray hair issue was the shotgun -- I was afraid he would know how to use it.
Like most 8-year-old boys, anything longish that he can lift to his eye makes a good pretend gun. A fallen tree branch in the backyard acts as a sniper rifle as Mason creeps alongside the fence, peeking around the corner of the house and...