Kids Hunt

Bob B

Bob B

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My club hosted a free hunt for any kids that passed their hunter safety class.
25 signed up.
They all gave the dogs a work out and the birds were a great color contrast to the very nice weather on the property. Felt like October, not December.

25 new kids who are Shooting Game. A very good thing.

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Bob ,

It was great to see you and John there today , I had a great time stocking and watching the kids faces as the rrids took to the air . Great club with great people .



Dave M
 
What a nice thing to do for our youth. I sure enjoyed looking at all those pics, Bob. Thanks for this post.
Al
 
fantastic. Every single person that reads this knows a kid they could take hunting... cept maybe tod, who'd let their kid go with him? But all the talk of doing it the 'right' way begins and ends with a kid.

Bob, we (southern flight hrc) have a huge movement for our youth programs. We've had 2 youth days I'll have to get some pics and a write up for ya some time, as well as women handler seminars and 2 womens hunts. In fact we wrote a grant proposal to the mdfwp trying to get matching funds from them, us, and national hrc. Its been a ball, and we just keep thinking of ways to make it better and better. one of the things we talked about is hosting a hunters ed seminar, and a free dove field... price of admision is bringing a kid who took hunters ed that year! itd be huge. Anyway, thats a great post, and a great job.

btw, i dig that 870 on top. travis
 
Great job getting the kids involved. Have your club look into the first shots program that NSSF has for getting more kids out shooting. They were a big help at our club, we had 68 kids this year for our kids day.
 
Travis,
if that gun could talk, the story it could tell. My friend's father left us way too soon back in the 80's. He was an avid skeet shooter. The tale goes that he shot a full round in a tournament with that shootin iron and never let a hull hit the ground, running them straight.
Needless to say my friend did not get the chance to hunt or shoot, without a mentor, after his dad passed. But he expressed an interest to me in having his son shoot a few years back. So I got him started in his dads old club which I belong and we began the trip with the boys.
Both boys headed to VT for a summer program where they got their hunter ed for both gun and bow hunting. You can guess how much they wanted to shoot when they got back. We hit the skeet and trap field all Aug. right up to now. As we went, the stories of that gun started to come out from folks who knew the original owner.
It has a stock with a pad in place of the original, till the shooter gets a bit bigger. Good thing having it fit.
The first Bird that got up for him was on the far side of the cover and flew too low to the dog for the shooter on that side. But the bird hooked and made a cross to his side high with afterburners on! All handlers were thinking a lost bird was getting away. Not so fast... 7\8 of copper plated 6 in a 12 ga hull with a skeet choke in the hands of a kid who has been practicing is a cool thing. He stoned that bird with one shot.
A bit later in the hunt the other shooters were working a bird in some thick cover and the 870 was up the hill a bit in case it made a u turn. Sure enough the bird chose the uphill escape route. But the safety of the situation required that the shooter had to wait till the bird was going away to avoid the dogs and the others. Now it was high and moving out. One shot, one retrieve for the shorthair.
We teased him on the walk out that he needs to learn to catch his hulls.
He had his first two birds with shells he loaded himself on his grandfathers MEC press using the 870 that just seems like it cant miss when he shoots it.

Bob
 
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