Posted on 11/23/2017 8:53:01 AM PST by Simon Green
A law signed last week by Wisconsins Republican Gov. Scott Walker to eliminate the threshold age to hunt has produced results for mentored hunters.
As reported by Green Bays 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 dont understand hunting, said Joe Krantz, the youths 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 sportsmans 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.
What time should we show up for dinner? :-)
Well, how are you on politics?
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Not in my family. Six is normal.
So your family has 6 year olds out actually shooting deer with shotguns or high powered rifles?
So your family has 6 year olds out actually shooting deer with shotguns or high powered rifles?
My son and grandsons shot the rifles at 6, killed deer at 8. Of course there is always someone right beside them.
So not out killing deer at six. I didn’t think so.
I got my first deer at 5 or 6 years old (don’t really remember which now) with my Grampa’s 30-06.
Don’t really remember much about the shot except Grampa saying “steady on now” and the bruise I got from it.
When I was 12 I was out in the woods with my Dad and Uncle. My Dad says “ do you want to shoot the Browning?” (Shotgun). So I put it up to my shoulder and fired. I flew back on my butt and the gun went straight up where my Dad caught it. He had loaded a slug instead of buckshot. They got a good chuckle out of it and I stayed away from shotguns til I met Mr. GG2. :-)
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