Great article, I commend you for finding and posting it here.

I don't quite know what to say about taking a kid hunting, mainly because I AM a kid-only 14, but I don'tthink thatany of my friends would be willing to hunt. However I can try and get them to.

Florida has a great program for young hunters:

http://myfwc.com/huntered/YouthHunter/index.htm

I don't know if any other state has anything like this, but then again, I've never looked. Maybe the FWC is trying to compensate for only having one species of deer; course the hog population is amazing.