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Old 06-29-2009, 07:21 AM
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nchawkeye
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Default RE: Am I Old Fashioned!

In a word, in many cases YES...

I try to be tolerant but part of the problem is that there is an entire generation that just never learned the propery way to act and treat others...

I'm 53, dad was a WW-II vet...He had us shooting by the time we were 6-7 years old, following him at 8-9 and hunting behind the house on our own by the time we were 10 or less...We started with squirrels, moved up to some duck hunting on Currituck, rabbit hunting in front of beagles, dove hunting with the local farmers and their sons...

What I see today is many start hunting later in life and jump right into deer hunting, so they haven't had the training that I had...In addition, the divorce rate is 50% or better so they don't have a dad to mentor and start them out properly...

The only way to start is one at a time and let the other hunter know what it's going to cost him before the trip...
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