This is just an opinion type question and I realize that you guys just enforce the regulations and do not make them, but have you ever heard any talk of instituting a mentor program in CT? They have it in other states and I think it does wonders for getting new hunters involved at a younger age. Even if CT would allow mentoring during the junior hunting days, that would be great.
In PA the mentor program, a licensed hunter 21 years or older can take a youth (younger than 12) hunting with them. The youth can actually be the shooter of the animal and the adult would tag the animal with his tag.
I'll be buying my PA license again next year and taking my 8 yo son with me hunting and if he decides he wants to shoot, so be it.
I would gladly give up all of my tags but 1 in CT, if it allowed me to take my son hunting and let him shoot before the age of 12. By 12 years old, so many kids are already into other things and don't want to be bothered much with hunting. Hunting/fishing is all my son talks about because I always take him with me, but it wouldn't suprise me if by the age of 12 he's moved on to other things.
Just putting it out there....I think this program is fantastic and I would personally love to see this implemented before sunday hunting, hunting after legal sunset etc. Once my kids are over 12, there will always be other youth that could be taken out.
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#1272128 - 11/29/1012:50 PM
Re: Mentor Program
[Re: Mycept]
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Wildlife Division is responsible for hunter education and other programs such as this. I would suggest giving them a call at 860-424-3011. Ask for Mark Clavette, he may be interested in your suggestion.
Now if we could only get mentors for first year hunters in their mid 40's . . . .
""Happy Talk" . . . . . Because it has worked so well thus far"
"It is not necessary to change; survival is not mandatory" - Edward Deming
"Unless we start to focus everything on this, our targets will soon be out of reach" - Greta Thunberg January 2020
"I spent most of my dough on booze, broads and boats and the rest I wasted" - Elmore Leonard.
Team Man Made Climate Change is Real.
"Such change demands on our part a serious and responsible recognition not only of the kind of world we may be leaving to our children, but also to the millions of people living under a system which has overlooked them" - Pope Francis September 2015
#1272302 - 11/30/1012:18 AM
Re: Mentor Program
[Re: Mycept]
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Mycept I was thinking about this all week. I took a youth out this year. We didnt shoot anything. We had a blast. Trying. I had the chance to take a teenager out we scored her first deer. Man was it cool. So this is what I was thinking. I love deer hunting. But what I love more is getting kids addicted. I love teaching them. I thought that hunt was so special in many ways. The more kids we get into the sport the more hunting we will do in the future. Im going to post in sept early oct. I will be looking for acouple kids who havent shot a deer who hunt state land to join me on some private land. Seeing tags cost money I will donate the money to buy private land tags for those couple days. I will also donate range time to practice. I have been thinking non stop about this while I am on stand. Thats what I really want to do. Please guys this is only in the planning stages.
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