RE: How can we really promote our sport? And should we?
While Pa certainly doesn't need anymore people setting foot in the woods than already are, I will help out in any way, anyone who comes to me with inquiries about bow hunting. My neighbors little boy bugged his parents for a bow cause he likes to watch me shoot in the yard. They got him one and now this year, his Dad is wanting to get back into hunting and archery more specific and I will be helping him get set up and shooting, etc.
Where I try to do my best for the sport is just being a good person, and sportsman in the public eye. EVERYONE knows I hunt, and its who I am. So if I'm a good guy as well, when they think of hunters, and think of nice guy me I think it helps our image. One of my toughest things to deal with is when a non hunter comes to me with a tough question about some yahoo who did something stupid to make hunters look bad, and I have to explain the way things are supposed to be.