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Rob Taylor, Founder, EmpireHunting.com
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March 08, 2008
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We had a recent discussion on The Empire about a proposed law in West Virginia that would allow
school to teach hunter education in school. Last Friday
that law passed for schools that can
produce 20 students who have interest. That certainly is going to be a time saver for parents
who need to put their child through hunter education. But what about the parents? Is teaching
hunter education in school really going to increase license sales?
Hunting families get a big benefit out of hunter education taught in schools. But what about non-hunting
families? I think the goal here is to get a young person to come home and convince the parents to hunt.
I think the likelihood of that happening as being slim. Just like when I was a child and wanted to
play hockey. The only way we could do it was to drive 40 miles to Olean. I begged. I pleaded. The
answer was, "NO." Way too far and too expensive. In other words, too complicated.
Now, if my parents had played hockey when they were kids would that have changed the outcome of that
decision? I think the odds would have been in my favor. But they didn't and hockey was expensive to
play in addition to the reasons I already mentioned. It was too damn complicated.
As complicated as hockey may have been, it had to be a lot less complicated then getting a kid in to
hunting in the present day. Lets say Mom & Dad let me play hockey. They could drop me off at practice
and coach would take over. There is no hunting coach. Mom & Dad are the hunting coach. Do Mom & Dad
know how to coach? They could certainly learn but at a heavy price. Equipment costs a lot these
days. By the way, so does gas. And where are they going to hunt? If you live in city or suburban America
then you are not going to walk across the street and go hunting. Hell, you can't do that in rural America anymore.
I see many people saying things like, "all kids want to do these days is sit in front of computers".
I think the notion that computers being responsible for kids not hunting is laughable especially when
computers ARE a large part of hunting these days. You are at your computer reading about hunting
right now aren't you?
The farms are gone and the shift to living in America has gone the wayside of city and suburban life.
In order for a kid to get in to hunting they need their parents to get involved in it as well. How
many parents are going to spend the big money involved with the long drives to do so? Maybe
they should pass a law that allows big corporations to teach hunter education to parents at work.
That may be a better approach.
The fact of the matter is that it is too complicated. A child coming home asking Mom and Dad to get
involved in hunting is no different than me asking Mom & Dad to let me play hockey - too expensive
and too far of a drive. How about a nice computer game instead?
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