03-09-2006, 08:06 AM
I'm not a big fan of it. Kids are just too excitable when they see the animal they are hunting for and just aren't nearly as capable of using sound judgment.
I'm also still not a fan of letting the 14 yr. olds hunt the big game. Sure, they can handle the gun, but too often I have seen them take aim when they shouldn't or take really stupid shots without knowing what is in the surrounding area.
Yes, I know there are a lot of adults that do this, but the young kids are far worse. They just don't have the maturity yet to think through the process of pointing the gun at the right time and in the right place.
Just my $.02 worth. I'm sure they are just trying to think of ways to increase revenues since small game tags have gone downhill in recent years. I think a big part of that is due to the extreme lack of pheasant hunting that was abundant when I was a young kid. They are trying to introduce the chukars and turkeys, but they have a long way to go on those to replace the number of pheasants they used to have around when there was more habitat for them.
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I'm also still not a fan of letting the 14 yr. olds hunt the big game. Sure, they can handle the gun, but too often I have seen them take aim when they shouldn't or take really stupid shots without knowing what is in the surrounding area.
Yes, I know there are a lot of adults that do this, but the young kids are far worse. They just don't have the maturity yet to think through the process of pointing the gun at the right time and in the right place.
Just my $.02 worth. I'm sure they are just trying to think of ways to increase revenues since small game tags have gone downhill in recent years. I think a big part of that is due to the extreme lack of pheasant hunting that was abundant when I was a young kid. They are trying to introduce the chukars and turkeys, but they have a long way to go on those to replace the number of pheasants they used to have around when there was more habitat for them.
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