We really need to get the kids involved, share our passion for hunting!

http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2007Sep02/0,4670,FewerHunters,00.html

How true, the kiddos are the future of hunting and shooting sports! I raised son and daughter to do both as well as reload. This took a little twist, neither one of them has the time from work to go with dad!!!!One's a vet tec and the other a EMT........it looses something going by your self.
Guess I'm gonna have to search out a newbie.......I knew this was gonna happen.LOL
Dan

Very good idea for sure. I brought my kids up hunting and fishing. The fishing too hold but none of the three hunt. They do love guns and shooting though.

Thanks for beating me to that post. Right on about the kids. Just as important is the need to support organizations that support inexpensive access.

Notice the HSUS comment about being "pragmatic", meaning not wasting their time on hunting, but rather on issues that "even hunters find egregious". Translation - Joe public doesn't believe hunters are all that bad. Time to join HSUS and keep it that way. If only one in 20 hunters joined, we could be the majority of the HSUS and could drive their agenda as humane hunters. Never gonna happen, so the hunting orgs need to take on some animal abuse issues.

The NRA should be so pragmatic. I am and will stay a member, but our image needs work.

It is a balance -We don't want the forestscrowded with hunters, but we need to keep the numbers up or face losing influence.

The bottom line is that most endeavors that don't offer instant gratification are fading away. I can't help but wonder if the hunting TV shows are doing more harm than good. While they are trying to promote hunting (well, OK, hunting products), I think they send the message that if you don't get a trophy animal in 30 minutes, you don't belong in the club.

Urbanization and hunting (even being able to easily go shoot) don't go together.
The abundance of instant gratification entertainment (mostly electronic) is spawning a generation of extreme couch potatoes.

It is trickier nowadays to hold their interest.

We started taking our youngest elk/deer hunting when he was four and in our home for foster care. Now at almost 8 he cannot wait to go again in October. Only a few more years until he can legally hunt.....

The principal of the local elementary school does not mind that we take him out of school for three weeks.

Wasn't trying to stal your thread here. I posted something similar in small game about 5 minutes before I saw this post. Same intent though. WE NEED TO KEEP OUR KIDS INVOLVED IN OUR SPORT. and if at all possible, some other kids too if their parents will permit. Had the neighbors not taken me duck hunting, and then helped get me into pheasant, I might not have ever gotten into hunting at all.

Hey this a great post! I took my little brother elk hunting this last weekend, his first time out hunting and he loved it can't wait to go again!

Hey guys. Can't agree with you more. My boys are reaching hunting age now and this is the first year out with a gun for the oldest. Any tips you all may have picked up over the years? Gun safety, respecting the land and the animal, ethics and a few other lessons have all been preached to them their whole lives. So, I think they have a good background, but if you have any tips, considerations, or just good stories I'd love to hear them!