Juvy Hunt

[lightsareout]

So let me get this right, adults can't hunt at all on a WMA during the Juvy hunt next weekend?

 

[Vermin93]

Correct, that's what makes it different from a typical deer hunting weekend.

 

[lightsareout]

well that sure screws my plans of getting a deer before smoke pole starts

 

[Andy S.]

Or private land for that matter. In TN, you'd have to be drawn for a special season hunt of sorts to hunt juvi weekend. There are some states, like KY, that allow adults to archery hunt during the juvenile hunt.

 

[lightsareout]

can't say i really agree with the whole idea of a juvy only hunt....but thats just me

 

[ROUGH COUNTRY HUNTER]

can't say i really agree with the whole idea of a juvy only hunt....but thats just me

Hasn't it always been this way

 

[Urban_Hunter]

can't say i really agree with the whole idea of a juvy only hunt....but thats just me

Hasn't it always been this way

At least since my first juvy hunt... 20 yrs ago



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[Ridgeraider]

It's only a couple of weekends during the hunting season and not even back to back weekends so it's no big deal to me. As long as it is used as planed with the juvenile doing the shooting and not the adult and checking it in as the juvenile's kill.

 

[lightsareout]

can't say i really agree with the whole idea of a juvy only hunt....but thats just me

Hasn't it always been this way

At least since my first juvy hunt... 20 yrs ago



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growing up in Michigan and Wisconsin there was no such thing as a juvy hunt. when you turned 14 you could hunt the regular season and freeze just like everyone else.

 

[Urban_Hunter]

.... It has nothing to do with the weather... The second juvy hunt is in January. And they can hunt the regular season here too. It's just one weekend set aside before the guns come out to give kids a first chance. And here you can juvy hunt at age 6. If you don't have a kid then borrow one. Let a 10 year old shoot a deer that you've been passing all year and see how they react. My most memorable hunts were my juvy hunts, and can't wait til my daughter is old enough.


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[Rackseeker]

I think it is a great thing also. I can remember 30 yrs ago my dad would let me stay out of school the friday before juvi hunt and we would go camp all weekend. Some great memories for sure.

 

[scn]

well that sure screws my plans of getting a deer before smoke pole starts

The dates for the archery season have been out since May and in the Hunting Guide since July.

LBL is open for nonquota archery hunting this coming weekend.

 

[knightrider]

I wish they had the first full week in November, its very cool they have their own hunts that makes it special to them. I don't understand how anyone would be so selfish to think the kids don't deserve it just my opinion.

 

[REM7]

Like Urban Hunter said, its for the kids so find one and take them. I assure you that sharing those 2 weekends with a kid will change both your lives. Witnessing a kid experience the woods and hunting lifestyle for the first time will be your greatest success as a hunter. And if that kid takes his/her first shot and kills a deer, that light in their eyes is the purest form of joy that exist and the memory of you taking them will be eternally etched in their mind. So give it a try.

 

[lightsareout]

Like Urban Hunter said, its for the kids so find one and take them. I assure you that sharing those 2 weekends with a kid will change both your lives. Witnessing a kid experience the woods and hunting lifestyle for the first time will be your greatest success as a hunter. And if that kid takes his/her first shot and kills a deer, that light in their eyes is the purest form of joy that exist and the memory of you taking them will be eternally etched in their mind. So give it a try.

I totally agree with what you said but to prohibit hunters (without kids or kids too young) from pursuing game to feed their family I feel is kind of ridiculous. Sorry I am a little bitter about this whole subject after hunting public land all of archery season and not seeing a single deer. I might as well hang it up for the year now with the juvy hunt, then ML starts, and no more going out for me after work with the time change next weekend.

 

[Deerbuster1996]

Like Urban Hunter said, its for the kids so find one and take them. I assure you that sharing those 2 weekends with a kid will change both your lives. Witnessing a kid experience the woods and hunting lifestyle for the first time will be your greatest success as a hunter. And if that kid takes his/her first shot and kills a deer, that light in their eyes is the purest form of joy that exist and the memory of you taking them will be eternally etched in their mind. So give it a try.

I totally agree with what you said but to prohibit hunters (without kids or kids too young) from pursuing game to feed their family I feel is kind of ridiculous. Sorry I am a little bitter about this whole subject after hunting public land all of archery season and not seeing a single deer. I might as well hang it up for the year now with the juvy hunt, then ML starts, and no more going out for me after work with the time change next weekend.

It's just 2 days. When you have 3 months to hunt.

 

[Poleaxe]

Like Urban Hunter said, its for the kids so find one and take them. I assure you that sharing those 2 weekends with a kid will change both your lives. Witnessing a kid experience the woods and hunting lifestyle for the first time will be your greatest success as a hunter. And if that kid takes his/her first shot and kills a deer, that light in their eyes is the purest form of joy that exist and the memory of you taking them will be eternally etched in their mind. So give it a try.

I totally agree with what you said but to prohibit hunters (without kids or kids too young) from pursuing game to feed their family I feel is kind of ridiculous. Sorry I am a little bitter about this whole subject after hunting public land all of archery season and not seeing a single deer. I might as well hang it up for the year now with the juvy hunt, then ML starts, and no more going out for me after work with the time change next weekend.

He we have it folks. Above is a prime example of a inconsiderate selfish type of hunter we want to teach the young ones we take this weekend not to turn into. Sounds like if you haven't killed yet anyways your extra 2 days your wanting ain't gonna help you bag one. Its always been like this so if you wanna witch about it try moving somewhere else. There's a lot of us that take this juvi hunt seriously. Instead of that complaining dry your eyes and find a kid to take this weekend and give something back. I went as far as asking kids at school in tow town or church to find a kid.

 

[Winchester]

Like Urban Hunter said, its for the kids so find one and take them. I assure you that sharing those 2 weekends with a kid will change both your lives. Witnessing a kid experience the woods and hunting lifestyle for the first time will be your greatest success as a hunter. And if that kid takes his/her first shot and kills a deer, that light in their eyes is the purest form of joy that exist and the memory of you taking them will be eternally etched in their mind. So give it a try.

I totally agree with what you said but to prohibit hunters (without kids or kids too young) from pursuing game to feed their family I feel is kind of ridiculous. Sorry I am a little bitter about this whole subject after hunting public land all of archery season and not seeing a single deer. I might as well hang it up for the year now with the juvy hunt, then ML starts, and no more going out for me after work with the time change next weekend.

He we have it folks. Above is a prime example of a inconsiderate selfish type of hunter we want to teach the young ones we take this weekend not to turn into. Sounds like if you haven't killed yet anyways your extra 2 days your wanting ain't gonna help you bag one. Its always been like this so if you wanna witch about it try moving somewhere else. There's a lot of us that take this juvi hunt seriously. Instead of that complaining dry your eyes and find a kid to take this weekend and give something back. I went as far as asking kids at school in tow town or church to find a kid.

Well said, Kids are the future of our sport, its bad enough they got screwed out of the first weekend in Nov. already, last thing we need is taking more time from them! I thinks its great and SO many kids get an opportunity they never would by these hunts taking place! Good luck to ALL the Juveniles this weekend!

 

[7wsm]

i ran across an old friends son the other day that reminded me i was was the one that got him into hunting because his dad didn't hunt and i took him on his first juvy hunt killed a deer and been hunting ever since still had the same 243 and his son killed his first deer with that same gun.to me this is what juvy is all about the reward is much greater than we will ever know or the impact we can have on young people for a life time so take a kid hunting brfore your lightsareout give back a little of whats been given to you like the old saying goes what goes around comes around

 

[bigquacks]

Even though i have never killed, the best hunts I will ever have are the ones I shared with my son. I have been lucky enough to sit in on 6-7 of his kills. Now he is blessed with a son, and even though
he is just a couple of months old, he talks about taking him hunting when old enough. Just remember you can take a kid any open day not just the juvy weekends, but if 2 days are going to determine
your season, I am sorry

 

[PillsburyDoughboy]

I wish my daughter would have gotten interested in hunting. She is more into petting them than hunting them, go figure. I would like to find a youth to mentor,. Finding one that you trust and is willing to take the steps to go through hunter Ed has been hard. So many of them want it handed to them.


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[swhackmaster]

can't say i really agree with the whole idea of a juvy only hunt....but thats just me

Hasn't it always been this way

At least since my first juvy hunt... 20 yrs ago



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growing up in Michigan and Wisconsin there was no such thing as a juvy hunt. when you turned 14 you could hunt the regular season and freeze just like everyone else.

That has since changed. MI now has youth only hunt

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[tuffdoc]

I have 2 daughters ages 11 and 15 who have waited all yr for this weekend. They do not care at all about halloween in fact they are only concerned about hunting.If we want hunting to survive we have to get the kids off their phones,computers and games and get their butts in the woods.To you grown men who are crying about 2 days of missed hunting. I hope karma comes back and bites you in the butt and you finish the season with unfilled tags.

 

[gobblinfool]

I am excited about this weekend....not the forecast, I have a ground blind set up in a spot where I have been consistently seeing deer....and I am not going to hunt there again til after youth season. My youngest daughter is going on Saturday a.m. and my oldest daughter is going on Sunday p.m.....and I have offered up Sat pm/Sun am to my friends for me to take their kids.......I took my oldest son two years and he scored each year on young bucks.....to see the excitement in their face