no help for new hunters

[Rapier]

There is a major problem today with instant gratification, everything must be like the father's stuff or it is not good enough. My kids are just like that too.

When I started hunting, in HS, in NH. I had a pair of jeans a sweat shirt, no coat, a pair of old army boots, a cheap knife and a sportarized 7.7 Arisaka I bought for $7.50 without the stock, I later bought, a Fajen. About a year later I got a non insulated black and red plad thick wool zip up to go over the sweat shirt.

Why do you need a bunch of multiple of hundreds of dollar pieces and parts to learn how to hunt with? As a kid, I was happy as a pig in slop at 15 below, just to be out in the woods, hunting. My Dad did not hunt and as long as I had someone that would take me hunting I was good to go, rain, shine, cold or hot.

Now that does bring up another totaly different thing, by gosh, get off your collective rumps and take a kid hunting with you.

No Junior hunters = no more hunting, that is a fact.
Ed