Archery in Washington hard on kids

[rasbo]

kinda off topic a little,when I was a boy there was an old YMCA and there we would shoot longbows,and learn to box...we would go out to some big fields and shoot at jack rabbits..they closed it down and put a xxx theater in its place...even as a child I felt a change in our ways in the country

[CplRaines]

My kids want to hunt because of me. They want to hunt, when I do, with me. .
I wanted to hunt as a kid to be like the grownups, to be with the grownups. It was, is, should be a rite of passage.
I didn't want a special season or rules. Then I wouldn't be a part of what the grownups had going on.
I wonder if those that want seperate youth seasons so bad do so because they don't want to take away from their own hunting time to teach/guide the kiddos?
I'm jest sayin.

[Sneaky]

I think the majority of people want youth seasons for increased opportunity to keep kids interested!

Dad took me with him even before I carried a rifle to show me the ropes - wouldn't most dads want to share those memories and experiences with their kids?

Youth can have their own special permits/seasons and still camp out with the adults. When I harvested my first doe dad was hunting for 3pt. or better bucks at the same time.

Most people I have talked to in opposition to youth seasons don't have kids themselves. If anyone should have special opportunity in this state, it should be the kids. Its an investment in the future of outdoor sports. 

[Machias Bowhunter]

I know I was just kinda being a 

Ya wasnt really knocking you I just been reading, and not put my 2 in, other people complaining about road hunters, guys that put out feeders or plant food plots or whatever and just rubbed the wrong way at the time lol

[Snapshot]

I have a friend who has belly-ached for as long as I've known him that Washington's big game seasons ought to start on a Saturday. He grew up in a state where seasons always started on a Saturday so that every kid who wanted to hunt the opener with their older relative(s) could do so without having to miss school.

My friend would sometimes let his son miss a few days of school here or there so that he could be with the adults on opening day. When his grades weren't so good the boy had to stay in school and miss the first day(s) of the season.

I, too, grew up in a state that started its deer season on a Saturday. There was no way my parents would have let me miss school for a day of hunting. The weekend starting date was integral to me getting hooked on hunting at a very young age.

By the way, I first met the above-mentioned friend twenty years ago and the 'boy' is now about twenty-seven years old, stays gainfully employed and hunts hard for as many days as his jobs will allow...in Idaho...with his dad, uncle and their friends. That group of at least five regulars have gone out of state to hunt for the past half dozen years because of deep-seeded resentments for the game management practices of this state. Resentments that started with not being able to take a young son hunting on opening day...

[Stickerbush]

Why 'youth' hunts at all?   I learned hunting with my father (birds), and he would let me shoot first.   
Everyone wants special status.   
Don't get me wrong, I think we need to teach our children to hunt, with, not special or separate season. 
IMHO

for birds its all good, but I would be less likely to take a kid hunting if it was during my big game season. The youth hunts and youth special permits allow kids to get adults to give them their full attention.

Also if the kid only archery hunts, get him to put in for a modern youth tag and let him bring his bow instead. Sounds good to me 

[buckfvr]

Including your kids in the current system, even at the expense of the quality of your favorite hunt is how its been done forever here.  If you want to take your kids, taylor a few hunts to their abilities.  They have to learn to hunt before they can notch a tag......a "PASS" in hunter Ed does not entitle youths to notch a tag.  Theres a lot of fun things for kids to do on a hunting trip.......take the focus off big game harvest, keep it fun, let them shoot at some grouse with a .22......

We should all be looking for ways to uncomplicate and shrink our game laws, not add a few more pages.....