08-26-2009, 09:10 PM
I don't think you big tough gentlemen are quite getting my point are you? I'm all for kids getting a chance to kill some birds, I'd be happy to take some hunting myself. It's just the puss-ification of america that I'm talking about. We can put this one in the same category as eliminating one of the coolest games ever from school P.E. classes: dodgeball.
A shotgun is a pretty serious weapon to be handing over to someone 12 years old, let alone someone younger. My childhood wasn't any less rich having to tag along with my dad and watch him be the one to pull the trigger til I was 12. It was a great learning oppertunity. THEN when I finally did get the go ahead to hunt myself, I went out there with all the big boys, and did it with them. And believe it or not, they let me shoot some birds too.
I'm guessing it was probably due to one of these reasons that led to the beginning of the youth hunt: A) the outdoors have shrunk down so much and the outdoorsmen have increased in # so much that it's too crowded out there and too tough of competition for youngsters on a normal opening day; and/or B) the "grownups" who are taking kids out hunting are too selfish to put their own greed for killing on the back burner, so that the kids are having fun and getting lots of good shots.
I just think it's pretty
that either of these things could have happened to the extent that we had to create a special day(s) when only kids could hunt.
I didn't mean to come off sounding like a jerk, I'd hate to ever get a reputation on here like some people have.[:p]
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A shotgun is a pretty serious weapon to be handing over to someone 12 years old, let alone someone younger. My childhood wasn't any less rich having to tag along with my dad and watch him be the one to pull the trigger til I was 12. It was a great learning oppertunity. THEN when I finally did get the go ahead to hunt myself, I went out there with all the big boys, and did it with them. And believe it or not, they let me shoot some birds too.
I'm guessing it was probably due to one of these reasons that led to the beginning of the youth hunt: A) the outdoors have shrunk down so much and the outdoorsmen have increased in # so much that it's too crowded out there and too tough of competition for youngsters on a normal opening day; and/or B) the "grownups" who are taking kids out hunting are too selfish to put their own greed for killing on the back burner, so that the kids are having fun and getting lots of good shots.
I just think it's pretty
that either of these things could have happened to the extent that we had to create a special day(s) when only kids could hunt. I didn't mean to come off sounding like a jerk, I'd hate to ever get a reputation on here like some people have.[:p]
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