All right! I got kids. Kids grow up a little faster out here. My son was mentoring adults out here when he was 14. He was showing them a good time. I can't relate to some of the crap on here. Different world than the one I left.

The thing is, you wouldn't want to take kids into the woods during regular season here.

That is not a lot of detail.

So when I was a teenager in Wisconsin we had a 3 day shotgun season. The teenagers were the drivers. The adults were the standers. The outside drivers got shots at deer. The inside drivers not so much. Lots of activity for us teenagers. I thought it was a lot of fun and good exercise. A lot of work. The three day season was a zoo. Nobody ever got hurt except all the scratches from driving.

What has changed?

Trust me on this ADC, your hunting seasons are mild compared to ours as far as hunters afield.

If your talking cold, yep i agree because the wind never stops blowing out there! lol.

I was 11 the first opening weekend I got to go to deer camp. Couldnt hunt, but got to sit with dad or grandpa for as long as I could take the weather. It was awesome, but I had the drive. Dad wasn't waiting around for me, if I wanted to go I had to wake up and go. A couple years later one of the other members at camp invited his 11 year old up. He sat in the cabin all weekend, never went out. He did not have the drive, and hasn't been back to camp. I think the youth hunt is an opportunity to prevent losing hunters like this. 2 days where a parent can focus on the child hunting, rather than fighting or arguing during the gun season. I'm not the most patient person when it comes to sacraficing my time for someone/anyone else. I'm lucky if I can hunt 5 of the 9 days during our gun season. If my kids would not be willing to go, I'd probly throw in the towel trying to convince them if it cost me half a day of the time I get. Allowing 2 days where I can drive them into the routine at a time where thier odds of success may be a little higher to get em hooked is a great idea. Participation trophy it is not, its extra time in this 24hr non stop world we live in. I work 12 hr days(and every other weekend), kids have school, chores need to be done around the house, homework, swimming lessons, it's never ending. I haven't even had time to shoot the bb gun with the kid in weeks because it gets dark so early now.

I just don't understand why so many people whine when they arnt the ones that benefit from something.

So it is about the parents?

Only in the way that the parent is trying to expose their child to hunting in a lower pressure, lower stress, lower expectation type environment where that child is the sole focus of the hunt. I know its different in Nevada as the only thing the kids get here are either sex tags and the ability to hunt during all 3 of the "big Boy" seasons so the can get more exposure to the different weapon hunts. Yes I felt tremendous pride when my kids made a good shot and the correct choices about taking a shot. And without these chances they might not have ever came back to hunting as young adults. Do they share the same passion for it I do NO but they are still hunting and I don't share some of the drive they have for their favorite pastimes. For my kids its about family and spending time together not about killing something.

Around here we call it hunting. Not shooting. What is the pressure? I assume if the youth don't kill anything nobody is gonna starve. Back when I was teenager hunting not everybody got deer. We were hunting. What is the pressure? Is the pressure to kill something? We just got back from a hunt and nobody killed anything and still had a good time.

Its a whole new world for whitetail hunting here in the lower 48 Dirt. Its @#$%#$% pathetic really. There are some folks that straight pitch a tent in their pants when someone brings up whitetail around them. Many are arrogant, possessive of "their deer", rude, etc.I think if you came to visit WI again during hunting season, you would just shake your head. I do believe we had a baby (6 month old or some sh...) bag their first deer!!!!!LMAO!

I took my oldest son because he asked. My oldest daughter asked to go in the regular season, but has never asked to go on the youth hunt. She does like to bow hunt too, so maybe she didn't see the big appeal.

I started out in regular season myself, before all this new stuff (holiday hunts, youth hunts, special doe hunts, etc) and I thought that was just fine.

I had the same experiences, no fun.

Not that way, here or I wouldn,t hunt. Even the CO's were constantly a problem in Wisconsin. Had a man claiming we were hunting on his land. Instead of verifying who owned it they gave my friends from the south a hard time until he was proved wrong. Never did anything to him, just bothered us while in the tree stand. It was that way every year for many years. I just quit hunting there.

Ice Rat, Think about it. Us kids were not a burden, we were necessary to insure a successful hunt. I was a heck of a rabbit dog.

The yahoos are out already, rut is here.

I always had to finish off my dads deer, as they would all run down the trail by me.

I think our youth hunting stories are better than these youth hunt stories.

Im thinking so, heck I even got plowed over by a nubby back in the day.

As bad as the deer youth hunts grind me , it's the youth waterfowl that really get to me.

We just came out of dove season, September teal and resident goose season . If all that didn't light a fire then sitting and batting mosquitoes and watching a dead sky , migration won't even be close here , certainly won't . Beyond stupid .