That is the way things used to be, but now hunters sit in their ladder stands from before dawn to dark. Today there is too much greed to fill every tag and shoot trophy bucks, those of us that are older have seen our sport go downhill.

I had takenmy three boys deer hunting when they reached the age of ten, this would be on both Saturdays, which only allowed me the first day to actually do some hunting. When they were eleven, I would take them the first day and both Saturdays, I wanted them to be out the first day to get used to the shooting, before they hunted the following year. Ididn't have any time to really hunt from 1982 thru 1996 because of not being on stand alone or pushing deer for my sons.

The PGC had to start a mentor youth hunt to do the things that I did, children don't have to shoot a deer or carry a rifle toget interested in hunting. All you have to do is take an interest in teaching your children to hunt, then when they are old enough, push deer for them instead of trying to shoot a deer yourself and put their tag on it.

I have tagged deer for my children so I could keep on pushing for them and the others. If RSB tries to give me a fine for this I have one answer for him, I'm a bigger liar then he is and I don't even try to twist things.

My ten year old grandson hunting this year for the first time, he might have gotten a doe, then again he might not have, but there was a deer shot out of the stand he was in, it was an antlerless deer and it ended up with a tag on. He was with me the first Saturday in the evening, but we didn't see a deer. The second Saturday he was sick and couldn't hunt, so I shot a doe at 4:50 in the evening, when I was sure my grandsonwasn't going to make it hunting. You shouldn't have to ask yourself why I saved my antlerless taguntil the end of the last day.

Now I understand where BB is coming from, but I'm sure a greedy hunter wouldn't understand, because he is just thinking of himself like those that mock him for not shooting a deer every year.