LOVE the idea, LOVE the thought process of encouraging young hunters... but HATE the implementation!! Besides the obvious intrusion on archery season, during leaf cover... the effort is being absolutely wasted. I asked my cousin if he was planning on bow hunting this year and his response was "no" because of football, practices, and weight training. ADKroy is absolutely right...start them at a much younger age and then offer a special youth hunt. Their is no way that high-school aged youth are going to choose hunting over sports.On a positive note...the season is a month + before the rut, so hopefully everything is back to normal by then!?
2 threads ...... Got my popcorn ready !!! The way I see it is , who cares ..... Poachers are gonna poach ....... The season usually aint even open yet anyways ..... And bow season is way longer than Gun already , I have only bow hunted for a couple years and while I love it I find MOST bow hunters are spoiled and want it all they're way and to heck with everyone else . I hope some Kid shoots a Booner , I really do and I hope it gets kids out there . It's one weekend people and Rifle opener is just as thick IMO .
Wear your orange in and out of the stand. Are you guys really that upset about YOUTH hunting. Talk about a bunch of ____________________________________________!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Enter a whole lot of words I can't type here. Give me a damn break. Bunch of greedy pukes. They are kids. Whatever gives them a better opportunity to shoot a deer the better. If one of my friends said something as stupid as some of this crap I just read I would punch him square in the mouth.
+1 on this ^^Im one of the most die hard bowhunters you'll ever meet, hunt exclusively State land, and this does not concern me at all, however I am completely confident in my hunting abilities and know I can adapt and overcome something as little as a few kids with guns running around in my area for a couple days one FULL MONTH before the rut. I would have liked to see them lower the age to 8 years old but hopefully that will come soon.
I have to agree with you. I love bow hunting more than gun season because I see WAY more deer. I would think that most kids would get a greater love for the sport if they had an opportunity to see many deer and especially tag one over the course of the weekend. 99% of the people on here complaining will probably not even be near a youth hunter while in the woods that weekend. My brother went 3 years before he saw a deer in the woods and now that he is older has no ambition to go sit in the woods. If his first couple of years were successful or at least exciting I think it would have stuck with him. I hope they stick with this new youth season until my daughter is old enuf.
I hope the kids scare the deer overy on my property...
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