Lebeau,
I understand and agree with your point completely. I have been hunting since the late 1950's (telling my age here) and bowhunting almost exclusively since the late 1970's. I was appointed to Alabama's Game Commission in the early 1980's (It's called The Conservation Advisory Board here in Alabama and they are responsible for setting the hunting seasons and creel limits for fishing and hunting ) I served for 6 years on that body. One of the most important things I did while I was there was to make the original motion to initiate a youth deer hunt here in Alabama. That hunt occurred before the regular gun deer season. It has since evolved to include a youth turkey hunt as well. And guess what? I got hammered by a lot of folks who were jealous that the kids were being afforded an opportunity to get a shot at a deer before they were! According to some of the ones who contacted me to complain were some who said that the bucks they had been watching were going to be spooked by all of the kids in the woods before they got a chance to even hunt. Can you believe that attitude? Actually most people understood the reasons behind my efforts but it still to this day amazes me the attitude of a few, and as a deer hunter I hate to admit it but the main ones who expressed that type of attitude were fellow deer hunters. I guess it takes all kinds.