To all of the experienced hunters who are reading this, I have a favor to ask. Right now, assuming that you use Facebook, post a status update with an open invitation to take an adult beginner out on their first hunt.We've still got plenty of hunting season left. In Virginia the season goes all the way through the end of December. Plus there's turkeys, geese, squirrels, etc. Whatever you are hunting next weekend, offer to take a beginner out with you. I guarantee that you will be glad that you did it.
As hunters, we tend to lament the gradual loss of hunting in American culture and the diminished numbers of people buying licenses year after year. You can do something about this right now. You don't need to make a donation anywhere. You don't need to show up at a rally or write a letter to your Congressman. Just go hunting and take somebody new with you. Post that status update on Facebook and find out who wants to learn how to hunt.
[Photo copyright 2010 by Douglas Ghizzoni. That's me on the left in the gray shirt at the end of a butchering demonstration, with John Durant in the red shirt]
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