Originally Posted by
BarnesX.308
Well, a lot of the hunting tradition is dying because there's no more recruitment. Most kids today don't want to hunt. It's too boring for them. It's been happening for a while.
Maybe my kid would have said the same thing to me if he waited until he was 12. By the time he would have been 12 he'd probably be so into hanging out with his friends and texting that he wouldn't want to go to camp.
Got to start this generation young or they will never hunt. I think people losing interest in hunting will do more to kill the sport than the mentored youth program ever will.
And the parents you talk about will eventually drop out of hunting because they don't enjoy it for the sake of hunting. They just want something out of it.
I wasn't talking about bear camp when I was mentioning the old camp. Actually, none of those guys ever went bear hunting. Just the first week of buck, the weekends and 3 days of doe. 1 or 2 guys went for bear every now and then but nobody ever got one.
Our hunting camp now is the family cabin. Not a club. The family's weekend get-away. I invite the hunting buddies up for buck week so we call it a club. But nobody pays dues. They just show up for a work weekend and contribute food and drink.
my dad had us in woods at 10 yrs old.i still feel anything younger than 12 to hunt is unsafe.does kid have to kill at deer at age 5 to want to hunt?cant they tagging along with dad as we did be enough?
dad taught us hunting at 10,we watched safety on using gun.no need to kill deer to go, it was fun LEARNING to hunt and watching dad.
if i SAW a kid sitting with dad like mentoured thing WAS to be, i would be first to say,ITS GREAT.
BUT THAT IS NOT WHAT IS HAPPENING.only time most of kids saw buck was when the dad got home and took pic of buck WITH NO TAG.dads should do better job of at least telling kids what caliber daddy used so they can learn to fib at butcher shops.
here is suggestion. let 5 yr olds kill the bucks but LET DADDY MUST PUT HIS TAG ON IT.OH BOY ,I CAN HEAR MOANING NOW.
no extra free buck doing it my way.
