It would appear that the people that lean in favor of unrestricted age hunting do most of their hunting on private property. I hunt public land in two states, and some of the things I see involving kids is really a shame. More than once I gutted a deer and helped a kid fill out a tag because his Dad placed him somewhere and said he would pick him up on the way out. Usually the kid does not even know the direction to "out". Legally, the kid is not to be out of the parent's sight. In Pennsylvania where I do most of my hunting, the antler restrictions make it handy to take kids along. The last day of deer season the mountain I hunt is always full of Dad and son teams, so any deer that goes by Dad can be covered with the son's tag. When we were kids, I and my cousins were allowed to go along small game hunting before we could get a license. It did not turn us off to hunting because we had to wait a couple of years to get a license.