They sure can...........just like everyone else.


This proposal is stupid on many levels. Primarily being that it will not draw very many "new" hunters to the field. What it will do is just give a bunch of younger guys the green light to kill deer before everyone else..........they would all be hunting opening day anyways, now they just will get an early start. Youth hunters are not 16-17 years old. Take some REAL kids out with their dad's and now your talkin'.

Screwing up the last 10 days of bow season is bad enough........not to mention the danger factor of young inexperienced hunters with guns mixed with guys in full camo. Just a bad idea.

I am 100% in favor of finding ways to get kids involved with hunting. This is just a dumb idea that's all.


As said already this is just another example of the DEC trying to figure out ways to eliminate more deer. 16-17 year olds will most likely be less patient and stick it out like others do for a whole year........they simply have a million other things going on. Giving them the keys to the candy store will hopefully help them take a deer more easily so when they disappear they take some deer with them.

I really fail to see the logic the DEC uses sometimes.............they are willing to gamble ruining the seasons for bow and gun hunters alike by throwing this wrench in the system............all under the veil of trying to help kids......which is not what this is about at all.

Just another reason to believe that the DEC wants massive numbers of deer killed every year.......period. The more the merrier.

I am shocked they haven't exended the seasons yet.........that has to be coming soon.

I am even more shocked when people can't see through the DEC's BS on some topics.


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