At your son's age, I was loading a canoe on a utility trailer behind my 4 wheeler, and driving 30 minutes down the back roads to a boat ramp to duck hunt.

I shot a turkey by myself at either 7 or 8. Pretty soon after I was killing deer by myself. I remember at about 10 or 11 my mom would drop me off after school on some public land for me to bow hunt, and come get me after dark. That was before cell phones.