Originally Posted By: March15
If you want to keep kids hunting, they need to at least see a deer. We keep slaughtering the does we won't have many deer. I can "get in there" and really hunt and kill deer. They can't. They have to sit in a box on a green field. It's nice if they actually see 1 every now and then.


Just a couple of questions to ponder. Can parents not take their kids squirrel and other small game hunting to fill in for all that excitement and take them deer hunting fewer times not to burn them out on an empty green field for hours on end? Most kids catch bream and catfish before chasing that ever elusive giant largemouth bass, so why should hunting be any different? Just seems like a good way to get and keep kids interested in the outdoors, then they can decide what they want to do when they get older and making decisions on their own.

"After all, it is not the killing that brings satisfaction; it is the contest of skill and cunning. The true hunter counts his achievement in proportion to the effort involved and the fairness of the sport." Dr. Saxton Pope