ducksmuggler wrote:I will say I run a YWD hunt and on an average have 30 kids..... but on that without help they can not hunt. I like the idea of YWD to get kids who have never or will never hunt without the help but more often than not they are kids that dads take them out later/ all season long.
I am for dropping YWD as long as MN dnr goes after adult recruitment.
By bringing the kids who won't go out all season long anyways you do YWD right, but I'm sure you are in the vast minority. I would love to see the percentage of kids who participate who would go out during the regular season anyways. I bet it's huge.
And what better way to recruit adult hunters than to give them a very good chance at a great hunt in what is probably going to be easy weather to hunt in?