I didn't take near the time I should have this year to go hunting myself and also taking the time with our oldest of our two boys mainly due to a house project. We'll sure be glad when thats over in a couple of years.
For those of you who have children I can easily understand how you might already have your hands full. I hope the years to come for myself will be filled with those great times hunting with our two boys.
For those of you that might have some extra time with or without children I would like to humbly ask you to consider taking the time with someone else this year to maybe target practice or something related to hunting or fishing. Especially showing those others less unfortunate enough that have never even had a chance to shoot a weapon.
To just the men I say Woman are in my opinion a very positive and strong foothold for the future of hunting. So please consider your next target practice friend or hunting buddy to be your grandma, mother, wife, daughter, or girlfriend. For the first time about a couple of months ago when I was target shooting my Phoenix my wife approached me and said "let me shoot it" Well my heart skipped a beat. You see the wife and I use to go fishing a lot together before we had children and we use to enjoy those times together very very much. So when she asked me to shoot the crossbow then I felt very happy even though I never did act like it at all. I don't want to rush the situation. I hope someday soon we will be able to hunt side by side. I really believe that after our youngest son takes his first deer or two that she'll consider going with me someday. Anyway I was saying that women are great for the sport also because PETA certainly doesn't want to aggravate a bunch of armed women
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Ive been wanting to say these things for a while now and finally made myself take the time to do so.
Im not trying to mislead or force my opinions on anyone but would much rather ask for your help to grow. If you get the extra time to take someone or not is up to you. I have to remind myself sometimes because I get too busy or just so involved in life and work that I forget. Im the worlds worst sometimes for being selfish, and not very sociable when tucked away back here in the sticks of our own little world. But I am learning.
Thanks for taking the time to read this and a special thanks to those of you who have already been doing great things for the good of the sport and our future.