Wondering about the kids...

[feather]

Crow, you are absolutely right. Last nite when writing the post I was really just shooting from the hip and haven't thought it through. The experience most of them have is from shooting trap at summer camp. My boys and I did a fair amount of trap shooting during this season and they loved it so you are dead on. We could prepare for the season by visiting a trap range or just doing it ourselves well in advance. Good advice...thanks!

[feather]

Crow, you are absolutely right. Last nite when writing the post I was really just shooting from the hip and haven't thought it through. The experience most of them have is from shooting trap at summer camp. My boys and I did a fair amount of trap shooting during this season and they loved it so you are dead on. We could prepare for the season by visiting a trap range or just doing it ourselves well in advance. Good advice...thanks!

[feather]

Crow, you are absolutely right. Last nite when writing the post I was really just shooting from the hip and haven't thought it through. The experience most of them have is from shooting trap at summer camp. My boys and I did a fair amount of trap shooting during this season and they loved it so you are dead on. We could prepare for the season by visiting a trap range or just doing it ourselves well in advance. Good advice...thanks!

[missin and wishin]

not all kids today are bad kids, i am one of the "young ones", who yall seem to be having a field day with. the invernmetn that we grow up in to day is drasticlly differnt than it was when yall were growing up; and when i say all i mean 30 and over. i think there is less and less hands on with kids today than ever before with both parnets working and higher devorce rates. i am not trying to make up excuses for my generation, but i dont think all of the blame needs to fall on our shoulders. sorry for stepin on toes, but not everyone needs to be put into the chity cat.

missin and wishin

[duck_nutt]

when I was a kid, cartoons only came on saturday morning....now there on 24/7 with whole networks devoted to them.....nintendo/gameboys?? gimme a break..I think I remember a game called PONG...just a control panel with 2 dial knobs that was played like tennis...and to make it really exciting, you could flip a switch and the paddles got real small and the ball went faster!

outside was all I had when I was a kid...."come home when the street lights come on'..remember that anyone?

Best thing mom and dad ever bought me was a BB gun...I learned a lot from those 'hunts' we went on around the neighborhood..we'd put our camo on and go bird hunting...terrors of the neighborhood..though we never stole or destroyed anything....we were just bird killers...when I think back, there's no telling how many we killed..(it was about 4 or 5 of us)..eventually we left the city limits and headed for the woods/levee..(believe it or not, we ate some of those birds cause we heard our dads talking about eating what we kill...robin and redbird ain't all that bad cooked over an open fire)

Belzoni ain't a metropolis ya know....

anyway, just brought back some memories...now I spend lots of money and time feeding and building bird houses..trying to do a little payback...but soon my son will have his first BB gun, and he'll learn like dad did I hope..

[missed mallards]

i'm only 19 so i've still got alot of growing up to do. i do remeber when i was 10 or so mom would send me and my brother off. wouldn't come back till dark 30 and never had the time to play in game's or sit on the computer as i'm doin now. my dad got my brother and me started in the hunting and fishing group when we were young. just about able to walk. there was 12 or so boy's in the neighborhood i grew up in. 4 of us where introduced to hunting and fishin. we had the BB guns and hunted almost everyday. the rest are alway's in trouble. guess it's weird. they just took up way different intrest than us. now i can't say i never been in trouble and did quite a bit of he!! raisin my self up till about a year and half ago but it never was dealing with drug's or destroying peoples stuff. i alway's had respect for the outdoors, and my elders. dad made sure of it. wooped my booty good when i was in the wrong something you don't see much of these day's with the new laws. kid's these day's have no reason to get out. if they want to race, hunt, or fight they can do it sitting in an A/c house with a cold coke between there legs. i wouldn't trade anything i've done in the outdoors. love it to death. but then again my dad did also so i had a good support system with him.

have introduced alot of people to the sport that love it know. my age not younger. growing up i just had alot of people who had the same intrest i did and going with them is a privilage. remeber my first river fishin trip. most fishin trip's i've ever gone on was just sit on the bank and watch your pole. the guy invited me and for the hole day we set back and BSed around drinkin cold beer and watchin nature take his course. amazed me that if you sit back and watch you learn all sort's of stuff. taught me alot about life and alway's knew i had a place i could just go and think. funny how a day on the river will open up your mind a hole lot more than sitting in front of the T.V. a cold beer in your hand, a rode in the holder, and being with someone that's had a lot more life experence than yourself to talk to ain't no better feelin in the world. guess i'm most happiest out on the water or in the woods and have learned alot more about life than watchin the t.v. or playin games. may just be me i don't know.