It's kind of a bittersweet feeling to know that they can do it on their own. I suppose that we should be happy that we have taught them well. My oldest son has hunted on his own for whitetails the last two years he still makes some mistakes but his love and passion for hunting makes my heart happy, he is my best hunting pardner. My middle son still hunts with me, between the two of them I don't shoot as many deer as I used to. They can also be a big help as my oldest loves the prossesing part as much as the hunt and helps skin and cut up the deer, just tonight his knife slipped and he stabbed himself in the leg and had to go to the hospital and he said why does this always happen to me, i told him he needed to keep a sharper knife. All in all we as parents have a lot to be proud of. The Bible says "train up a child in the way they should go and when they are old they will not depart from it".