Posted on 12/14/2004 5:32:06 AM PST by Libloather
Statewide Hunting Proposal Runs Into Unfriendly Fire
Proposal Would Make 16 Minimum Age To Hunt
POSTED: 5:22 pm EST December 10, 2004
In North Carolina, you must be 16 years of age to get a driver's license, but there is no age requirement to hunt deer, turkey and other game. There is now a push to change that.
VANCE COUNTY, N.C. -- A hunting accident is prompting a call for a minimum hunting age, but the proposal has run into some unfriendly fire.
State law allows a child of any age to shoot game as long as a parent or guardian is no more than an arm's length away. Last Thanksgiving, an 11-year-old shot his father in the face and arm with buckshot meant for a deer. Now, the Fund for Animals organization wants North Carolina to make 16 years old the minimum hunting age.
Norm Phelps, of Fund for Animals, argues "it's unrealistic to expect a hunter education class to make up for a child's lack of emotional maturity." Many hunters disagree with that proposal.
"If you don't let a kid hunt at 16 or before 16, he's not going to start at 16," hunter Wally Davenport said. "He's going to be doing other stuff. He's going to be getting into other trouble. We don't want that. We've got enough of that around here."
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You'd think the rabid evolutionists would advocate perpetuating the hunter/gatherer stuff. But Nooooooo....
/sarcasm
Hunting and Second Amendment Bump!
The age is pushed up with each accident? What's the age of the oldest hunter that has shot something other than intended?
I was dove hunting with a .410 at ten years of age. I've never had any kind of firearms accident.
Overreaction.
Sixteen... not old enough to hunt under father's direct supervision.
But still old enough to get an abortion without parents knowledge or consent.
No, you mentally diseased pablum puker, it has nothing to do with maturity, hunting classes, or safety. It has everything to do with you and your sniveling ilk looking for every opportunity to incrementally outlaw hunting of any kind, for any reason, by anyone. Go to hell. No, better yet, go hike through the woods. With an antler hat on. At 6 a.m.
Man, what a good point.
Nicely put. These people are not even subtle. "Fund for Animals" is concerned about the welfare of hunters? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Just another attack on our rights and way of life.
They figure that if they can keep kids from hunting while they are young, and at the same time bombard them about the evils of guns in school, by the time they are 16 they'll have no interest in guns.
Shooting sports along with gun safety should be taught at a very young age.
I believe 10 to be the age a kid could start hunting but with an adult right there. We hunted alone at 12 but in hindsight perhaps 14 or 15 might of been better especially on state land where you do not know where everyone is hunting.
Mr. Davenport has hit the point of this proposed law.
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Stupid laws...and tons of them...
Jr High we would take our 22s to school keep them and the ammo in our lockers till it was time to hop on the bus and ride out to a friends farm and hunt tree rats in his woods...or rabbits in the nearby fields..
Sometimes our folks would pick us up after or we would spend the night and ride the bus back into school with our rifles put them back in our lockers and after school walk home carrying our rifles..
Never an accident...we all knew the rules and anyone who messed up even a little was taken to task..apologized and remembered..
Does anyone really need to say more???
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