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One Obstacle in Getting Kids Started Hunting
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<blockquote data-quote="TheLBLman" data-source="post: 4536855" data-attributes="member: 1409"><p>Mike started this thread about "one obstacle",</p><p>and he did say "hunting", not just deer hunting.</p><p>But truth is there are many, many obstacles, possibly including "too much of a good thing" so to speak.</p><p>Perhaps we have too much focus on just deer hunting? </p><p>At least in terms of helping kids become lifetime hunters?</p><p></p><p>Each generation tends to want to make things "easier" on their children, </p><p>parents want their kids to have everything "easier" than did they.</p><p>But sometimes our loving efforts can be counter-productive.</p><p></p><p>As to any of us who want to get a child into hunting,</p><p>generally speaking, there has never before been so much "opportunity" for that,</p><p>and that would be the case even if we didn't have any special "juvenile" hunt.</p><p></p><p>True, most of us don't have the "walk out the front door" convenient opportunities of prior generations,</p><p>but that may be more than off-set by the long seasons, and ample public lands. Plus, we now have much more effective weapons for our children than those of yesteryear. My 1st deer kill was with a 20-gauge shotgun, at age 12; my first bow killed deer was with a 40-lb simple recurve bow at age 13. Never even went deer hunting with a rifle before I was 20 years old. All I had was a shotgun (and a primitive bow by today's standards).</p><p></p><p>Today, young children have scoped rifles and scoped crossbows.</p><p>Some even have scoped muzzleloaders, for which a muzzleloader season segment didn't exist prior to the 1980's.</p><p>And deer season is open more days in a single year than it was in a 3 to 5-yr-period when I was a child.</p><p>Heck, most TN counties didn't have a deer season period back then.</p><p></p><p>But I was "hooked" on hunting, long before I killed my first deer at age 12,</p><p>which was long before anyone even conceived of a "juvenile" deer season weekend.</p><p>Wasn't just me, either, as most kids my age were also "in to" hunting.</p><p></p><p>But today, we're discussing the kids having hunting clothes less comfortable (today) than the clothing of most their parents.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TheLBLman, post: 4536855, member: 1409"] Mike started this thread about "one obstacle", and he did say "hunting", not just deer hunting. But truth is there are many, many obstacles, possibly including "too much of a good thing" so to speak. Perhaps we have too much focus on just deer hunting? At least in terms of helping kids become lifetime hunters? Each generation tends to want to make things "easier" on their children, parents want their kids to have everything "easier" than did they. But sometimes our loving efforts can be counter-productive. As to any of us who want to get a child into hunting, generally speaking, there has never before been so much "opportunity" for that, and that would be the case even if we didn't have any special "juvenile" hunt. True, most of us don't have the "walk out the front door" convenient opportunities of prior generations, but that may be more than off-set by the long seasons, and ample public lands. Plus, we now have much more effective weapons for our children than those of yesteryear. My 1st deer kill was with a 20-gauge shotgun, at age 12; my first bow killed deer was with a 40-lb simple recurve bow at age 13. Never even went deer hunting with a rifle before I was 20 years old. All I had was a shotgun (and a primitive bow by today's standards). Today, young children have scoped rifles and scoped crossbows. Some even have scoped muzzleloaders, for which a muzzleloader season segment didn't exist prior to the 1980's. And deer season is open more days in a single year than it was in a 3 to 5-yr-period when I was a child. Heck, most TN counties didn't have a deer season period back then. But I was "hooked" on hunting, long before I killed my first deer at age 12, which was long before anyone even conceived of a "juvenile" deer season weekend. Wasn't just me, either, as most kids my age were also "in to" hunting. But today, we're discussing the kids having hunting clothes less comfortable (today) than the clothing of most their parents. [/QUOTE]
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