A must read article

[Str8shooter]

Greetings all -

From another site, I chanced upon this article in the link below which you'll find extremely well written. The author laments on the decline of hunting. Thre are so many distractions available for our young today. X-Box, Play Station and those type video games are wasting the vitality of youth, sure. Organized sports too, either in schools or in organizations like Little League Baseball or Pop Warner Football, are claiming the weekend attention of children and their parents. Summer basketball and soccer camps are even replacing kids' time on the lake fishing with their family.

It is past time to re-examine the legal hunting age in New York State. I have heard of a study done at Cornell University which states unless we get our kids interested in the outdoors by age 11, we have lost them. Think about it. P.E.T.A is a beast in sheep's clothing.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15892909/site/newsweek/from/ET/

Unless we are part of the solution, we are part of the problem.

Be well or as well as you can be,
Rob

[DeGrush]

I have a nephew that hunted only one year and didn't want to do it anymore.He would rather spend his time on the old pc playing games than hunting.It is tough to get kids interested in hunting they just have to many other distractions these days.Now with our new alleged anti hunting DEC commissioner I think it'll be even harder to get the aged lowered.

[maineguy110]

There are alot of kids out there who want to hunt. But no one is there to take them. i have been doing it in my area. i make a deal with the kid he keeps a C average in school stays out of trouble i take him or her to shoot once a month and take them hunting. i have just started to do it. i have watched 2 boys get there first deer the hunting age in maine is 10 years old. so if you check around you will find a lot of kids who want to hunt It is more fun to watch them get thier first deer than to shoot your own

[BriBri]

I know this thread has been dormant for a while, but I feel it's important to continue the discussion.

I am actually planning on getting my 5 year old daughter a kid-sized bow and arrow set for Christmas this year. I enjoy both bow and gun hunting, and I feel it's my duty to expose her not only to the outdoors (I plan on taking her scouting with me next year.), but also to our great American heritage and traditions of hunting. Moreover, I need to teach her about what conservation really means....not the meaning that the anti, liberal, tree-hugging morons want to impose on our society.

To maineguy110...I say God bless to anyone who takes a kid (boy or girl) into the outdoors and teaches them about the great things this country stands for.