Here is my take on the mentoring program. Have the kids go through a one day safety course. In that course they will have the weapon (s) that they will be using and fire it on a range. Leave it up to the instructors / game commission officers to decide if that child can safely and effectively use that weapon. If so, they get a cetification card stating what weapon they can use. When in the field, if stopped by the game commission, the adult or child must be able to produce the card and show proof that it is the weapon they are using. Failure to do so will result in a suspension of the adults hunting previlidges for so many years as well as a giving up the weapon that is being carried at the time. Example: Father and 9 year old son are hunting and son is permitted to use a .30-30 and a .410. GCO stops them and he has a .410 he is good to go. Same situation only a .270 is being carried,that weapon gets taken and father loses hunting privilieges for the next 5 years and a lifetime watch that if anything illegal happens again, he loses privilieges of hunting for ever. As far as the anterless allocations, let them put out what ever number they want, I buy a total of 4 tags between my son and I and will only fill 1 if no buck was taken. Plain and simple, buy the tags up, but don't use them!!