mentor program

[mccool]

anyone here taking out a little one this year? I am taking my 10 year old son jake out he is pumped. I have a two man ladder stand behind the house and we have been seeing them from the house we cant wait til next saturday to be in the stand on our first hunt together I may be more excited than him:D

[grtwhthunter/fisherman]

got my son his firearmlicense hes 10 and we will doing the youth pheasant hunt(guided) with dog (if choosen) provided my the state and we r anxiously awaiting the youth day deer hunt. feels good inside that these are our making ya know.:):rolleyes::bow:

[bigolebuck]

Unfortunately I have quite a few years to wait until I can take my girl out in the woods with me! My wife is 7 1/2 months pregnant right now with our first child and she is due during the rut this November! OH well about the rut... I am just super excited about the baby... I wish you and your kids the best of luck this year and many more years to follow.

[Archer101]

anyone here taking out a little one this year? I am taking my 10 year old son jake out he is pumped. I have a two man ladder stand behind the house and we have been seeing them from the house we cant wait til next saturday to be in the stand on our first hunt together I may be more excited than him:D

I took my son out last year on the mentored hunt. I bought him a crossbow and he bagged a nice one, we also have a 2-man treestand and we both sat in, I talked him thru till he pulled the trigger and stuck a nice Deer! I wish I had the camera with me at the time. You should have seen the look on his face!:D:D He started screaming I GOT IT!! I GOT IT!!! I GOT IT!!! He was 11.
Now he's 12 and has his own lic. and we've been out several times so far and we haven't had the chance to get a Doe yet, but seen plenty of Buck we could have taken without a problem! Imagine That! Well, this saturday Buck opens & I'll bet that we don't see those boys around!:eek:

[ACEarcher]

I would love to sign up somewhere and be able to mentor a young guy. I've got good spots:D and wouldn't have a problem taking a young hunter out. Even if he needed the deer butchered I would take care of it. I'm always down for introducing someone young to the wonderful sport of hunting. We need to get more younger guys involved.

[Archer101]

I would love to sign up somewhere and be able to mentor a young guy. I've got good spots:D and wouldn't have a problem taking a young hunter out. Even if he needed the deer butchered I would take care of it. I'm always down for introducing someone young to the wonderful sport of hunting. We need to get more younger guys involved.


Now that's Awesome! And you got that right! We have to keep this sport "that we all love" going! Or these politicians are going to try and take it away! And we can't let that happen! Didn't NJ already lose thier Bear season?

[QuintonZ29]

Video it and he wont forget it, ever.....

[mccool]

:thup: me and my son went out on our first hunt togher this morning around 15 mins after 1st light we see a doe and two fawns they are in shooting range but he can only shoot a buck in the mentor program after another 10 mins my son wispers that he sees one and points it disappeared then another doe comes in from another direction and gets our attention for a few seconds after that I look back to the spot my son saw the other one and I see a big body deer coming down the trail and I see a nice rack I whisper to my son to get ready a big buck is coming he put his head down and waited the buck came in around twenty five yds looked up at us as my son was taking the safety off he froze then the buck lowered his head he took the safety off and shot this all happend in the first half hour after day break the buck ran around sixty yds and stood there for fourty mins not moving then it started to walk its back was hunching I then knew that it was a gut shot we found the arrow to confirm this was around 8:00 am we are going to wait until 11:30 to go track him please prey to the hunting gods for us to be continued:huh:

[Archer101]

Your doing the right thing by waiting for a while before heading back to track him! Good Luck! Let us know how you make out.

[mccool]

no luck followed blood trail for 150yds then nothing checked everyware maybe in a day or two the buzzards will find him we are sad this hunt we will remember forever it was good and bad I hate to not find a wounded deer it is the worst part of hunting the buck was between 110" and 120" what a great 1st buck it would have been

[Archer101]

no luck followed blood trail for 150yds then nothing checked everyware maybe in a day or two the buzzards will find him we are sad this hunt we will remember forever it was good and bad I hate to not find a wounded deer it is the worst part of hunting the buck was between 110" and 120" what a great 1st buck it would have been


Man! That's a real shame! I've done it myself as I'm sure a lot of us have!

[BarnesX.308]

Took my boy out the first time last winter for squirrels. He was 5. The weather wasn't the best, the area isn't thick for squirrels and he was fidgety. He had a blast, though, just going out with me. This year I've been working with him with the 410 shotgun. He's 6 now and we're going out this Saturday to a piece of more productive ground. I hope he gets one. I would be so proud :thup:

[never better]

Took my boy out the first time last winter for squirrels. He was 5. The weather wasn't the best, the area isn't thick for squirrels and he was fidgety. He had a blast, though, just going out with me. This year I've been working with him with the 410 shotgun. He's 6 now and we're going out this Saturday to a piece of more productive ground. I hope he gets one. I would be so proud :thup:

Hey Scott,
If you're going to Dave's place, he hunted with his 10 year old daughter Sara yesterday on a crossbow mentor hunt & she got a six point 4 minutes after legal shooting hours started yesterday am...short & sweet-last year she got her buck about a half hour into the season!!!

[wreckless]

I have taken both of my daughters out since they were 5. We do a little more each year. There 8 now, maybe we'll take something:)

[BarnesX.308]

Hey Scott,
If you're going to Dave's place, he hunted with his 10 year old daughter Sara yesterday on a crossbow mentor hunt & she got a six point 4 minutes after legal shooting hours started yesterday am...short & sweet-last year she got her buck about a half hour into the season!!!

That's what I was hoping. I emailed him today.

If you hear from him first, tell him to tell the youngster congrats.