Posted on 11/23/2017 8:53:01 AM PST by Simon Green
A law signed last week by Wisconsin’s Republican Gov. Scott Walker to eliminate the threshold age to hunt has produced results for mentored hunters.
As reported by Green Bay’s Local 5 News, six-year-old Reece Krantz of Lancaster bagged his first buck while out hunting with his father as a result of the new law.
“There is a lot of backlash and typically it is the people that don’t understand hunting,” said Joe Krantz, the youth’s father. “We just wanted the freedom to make the choice ourselves.”
Classified as a “youth mentored hunting bill” by its sponsor, Assembly Bill 455 passed the legislature earlier this month by healthy margins and removed the requirement that a person is at least 10 years old to participate in a hunting mentorship program, leaving it up to parents to decide the budding sportsman’s minimum age. The state joined 34 others that have no minimum age mandate.
As noted by Local 5, conservation officials saw numerous other instances of now-legal deer hunters in the woods and reported no accidents involving youth.
“The young new hunters actually tend to be the safer of our hunters because that safety issue is paramount in their minds all the time,” said Jeff Pritzl of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.
And the deer didn’t care what kind of pants he was wearing.
I’d rather be a wild animal risking predators and hunters than a cow born with certain captivity and slaughter. Ask the animals which is preferable. Wild animals always end with suffering and/or violence.
The “budding sportsman” Hah. Always nice to see the
age requirements of killing expanded....I guess...
Ha ha, libs stroking out because a six-year-old is learning to love guns. They want to wait until he’s at least 10 because that gives them four years, grades 1 thru 4, to brainwash him and frighten him to death about guns.
Because killing animals for food is....bad?
You’re gonna shoot a dear? A leaf eatin’ doe eyed little deer?
Dear should be deer.
“””””The “budding sportsman” Hah. Always nice to see the
age requirements of killing expanded....I guess..””””””
All the turkeys eaten today were not killed. They just all committed suicide.
what will you eat today? You sound vegan. We’ll have bacon-wrapped venison medallions and slow smoke-roasted wild turkey for meats.
My Cousin Vinny
Yum Yum Grandpa.
Venison is great. We are going to have venison for Christmas.
Thhksgvng dinner at 3pm.
Best movie ever.
“I see a deer”
“Has the deer a little doe?”
“Yeah, two bucks ... nyuk, nyuk, nyuk.”
Love,
Moe, Larry, and Curley
I come from a hunting family. I started out at 11 with a bolt action single shot .22 shooting squirrels. Six is way too young for deer hunting or guns IMO. 10-11 is a better thresdhold.
He’s hunting at a 10th grade level.
All mammals (including humans) end their lives with suffering and/or violemce, one way or another.
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