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Originally Posted by Craig Larter
Every year we hold a youth hunt at our duck club. Normally the ducks are thick as mosquitos with woodies and widgeon. Over the last decade I would say close to 100% of our youth hunters have become waterfowl hunters. The best year was when the female youth hunters out shot the males, made me believe our sport will continue on.
Nice of you Stan to do what you do to keep pheasant hunting alive in PA.
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Craig, I think you are so right about female hunters and the future. I taught a Conservation and Hunting college course for several years before I retired. If I learned anything it was that if you create a female hunter, you get the family to follow. It's an exponential gain.
Great work, Craig and Stan, to introduce young hunters to this life we cherish so much, and which has been so beneficial to conservation in America.
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"Doubtless the good Lord could have made a better game bird than bobwhite, and better country to hunt him in...but equally doubtless, he never did." -- Guy de la Valdene (from A Handful of Feathers )
"'I promise you,' he said, 'on my word of honor, I won't die on the opening of the bird season.'" -- Robert Ruark (from The Old Man and the Boy)
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