Setting in a shooting house over a food plot teaches young hunters what ???
Oh me, I wouldn't take a million dollars for the time spent in a shooting house with my kids, grandkids and other new hunters (young & old). The youngsters started tagging along when 3-4 years old. They took books, crayons, lots of snacks, iPads, etc , whatever it took to appease them.
It gave me untold hours to witness to them, to listen to them, to give advise to them, to share my hunting experiences with them and to talk about everything under the sun, and maybe kill a deer or two. We got to enjoy GOD's great outdoors, shared numerous sunrises and sunsets together and built lifelong meaningful loving relationships. We had uninterrupted time to share life victories, defeats, we laughed, cried and discussed why great grandma died. They learned family history, relived hunts that I had with their great & great great grandfather's following a pack of beagles or bird dogs.
They learned that the luscious food plot and nice shooting house was the result of hard work, planning, managing finances, working with others, and didn't happen at snap of fingers. They learned about wildlife management, why not to shoot the first lone little deer that stepped into plot, they learned why we may need to kill does, how to age bucks, why we take out predators, why we let one deer walk but shoot the next one. They learned why we chose to hunt one stand over another. They learned patience, respect, why we need to be quite, talk less and listen more.
They learned that in order to enjoy the hunting time, the also had to put forth effort. They learned that they had to show up for work days, pick up rocks out of new plots, clear shooting lanes, put up stands and eventually run chainsaws and drive tractor.
They learned that the only constant in life was change, and that they not only had to adapt to be successful, they also had to know where to draw the line, that not everything is for sale. They learned that lots of sweat equity was required for most everything that is meaningful in life. They learned how to be productive citizens.
All the above taught them not to take the easy way out like stopping by Walmart for a sack of corn and dumping it out on the ground.
Now have a 6 month old great grandson and Lord willing, one day in near future I'll get to spend time with him in a nice shooting house overlooking a luscious food plot, teaching and sharing with him the same things I did his father. Perhaps even at the same food plot.
Naw, I was wrong about the million dollars, I wouldn't take ten million for the experiences shared!