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Post by 76chevy on Dec 8, 2008 16:02:27 GMT -5
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Post by whitetaildave24 on Dec 8, 2008 16:04:01 GMT -5
I didn't read the blog, but I believe that it should be totally up to the parents as they are the ones that know when their child is ready to take to the field with weapon in tow.
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Post by Old Ironsights on Dec 8, 2008 16:08:45 GMT -5
Can the individual child be trusted to safely operate the pertinate, legal equipment & stay in commo with an adult?
That's the age that should be allowed to hunt.
Could be anything from 6 to 21+. (Don't mess with some little kids I know and a .357 PCR...)
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Post by 76chevy on Dec 8, 2008 16:10:42 GMT -5
totally agree with you there, just passed this year the apprentice lic in IN was a great step in the right direction for getting kids into hunting. the blog talks about in MN they just lowered the age requirement to age 10 my son is 5 and will be hunting well before 10, supervised of course I didn't read the blog, but I believe that it should be totally up to the parents as they are the ones that know when their child is ready to take to the field with weapon in tow. |
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Post by whitetaildave24 on Dec 8, 2008 16:35:36 GMT -5
My son will be 3 in January and he is already ate up with the hunting bug. He loves to help me clean my guns, look through magazines, drive around looking for deer, and anything else I do that involves hunting. I cannot wait until I am able to take him out to actually hunt with me. He has already been out with me as a sidekick (just watching) and he loved it. He is already excited about the upcoming turkey season, because he is going to go with me a couple times.
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Post by 76chevy on Dec 8, 2008 17:28:35 GMT -5
very cool! I hope to get my son in a turkey blind with me this spring also! My son will be 3 in January and he is already ate up with the hunting bug. He loves to help me clean my guns, look through magazines, drive around looking for deer, and anything else I do that involves hunting. I cannot wait until I am able to take him out to actually hunt with me. He has already been out with me as a sidekick (just watching) and he loved it. He is already excited about the upcoming turkey season, because he is going to go with me a couple times. |
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Post by Decatur on Dec 8, 2008 18:00:11 GMT -5
No way!
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Post by Sasquatch on Dec 8, 2008 19:24:55 GMT -5
NO. At some point you have to hold people responsible. If somebody takes a kid out that's too young and he hurts himself, that should be THEIR problem. No more red tape on the rest of us to save retards and their retarded spawn from themselves. I know I'll take some heat from the PC crowd, but I hate REQUIRED hunter ed for the same reason. I've had to turn grown men away from the sporting goods counter without a hunting license because they forgot their stupid commie hunter ed number. We wonder why hunter recruitment is falling?
You can't say to your 20 year old aquaintence, "Hey man, want to go huntin' with me?" He has to find the time to go to some class beforehand. There is the apprentice license now, at least, but that can only be done so many times.
I think hunter ed is a good thing as a supplement to good one on one teaching, but all the teaching in the world can't fix stupid. Anyone that would shoot a dude thinking he's a deer or whatever will still do it, regardless.
I sat through the International Bowhunter education class years ago to get on the fast track for park hunts, and it stretched on for nearly 12 hours. At the end, the eight year old kid that doodled the whole time was just as "educated" as I was.
All these ideas are just attempts to appease antis, only appeasement doesn't work.
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Post by TagTeamHunter on Dec 8, 2008 23:48:38 GMT -5
There are people over 40 I refuse to hunt with or be around when they have a load gun or sharp object to include child proof scissors.
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Post by dbd870 on Dec 9, 2008 2:20:30 GMT -5
Didn't read it either and I agree no minimum age for all the reasons already posted.
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Post by cambygsp on Dec 9, 2008 4:09:52 GMT -5
No state mandated age limit!
My son started going afield with me when he was 5 years old, he started carrying his own weapon when he was 10. For 5 years he sat right next to me in a ground blind while deer and turkey hunting.
Sure my hunt was not as good as it would have been if I were alone, but it was fun with him. When he was young he slept most of the time in the blind but HE LOVED IT!
To this day when I wake him up on a hunting day I always ask, "are you going hunting today?".....so it has always been up to him!
This past Sunday morning was the first time in over 6 years I went deer hunting without him.........his buddy and him went rabbitt hunting, and I went deer hunting.
It was a weird feeling!
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