Michigan bill would allow younger children to hunt

[TAC]

Michigan bill would allow younger children to hunt
http://www.mlive.com/outdoors/index.ssf/2011/05/michigan_bill_would_allow_youn.html

[ranttrmike]

Stupid, stupid, stupid idea.

10 year olds are not mature enough, nor focused enough to handle guns in this manner. The law allows 10 year olds to hunt "with a mentor" who is not in direct supervision of them, but rather, just near them.

I am PRO IIA and PRO HUNTING (I hunt), and I have taken my younger kids with me, but setting them free with a gun and other lives on the line?

NO, WRONG..BAD!:bs:

[Dansjeep2000]

:flag: Again It should be a parents call, not every 10y/o is the same. I was fully capable with MY .410 shotgun at 10.

[Hawgrider]

Stupid, stupid, stupid idea.

10 year olds are not mature enough, nor focused enough to handle guns in this manner. The law allows 10 year olds to hunt "with a mentor" who is not in direct supervision of them, but rather, just near them.

I am PRO IIA and PRO HUNTING (I hunt), and I have taken my younger kids with me, but setting them free with a gun and other lives on the line?

NO, WRONG..BAD!:bs:Maybe your 10 year old is not ready but many others are. :gavel:

[mvandam]

Maybe your 10 year old is not ready but many others are. :gavel:

Exactly. I like this law, it should be up to the parents to decide if their child is ready or not.

[Phelptwan]

At 10 ground hogs, grackles, and chipmunks feared me...

[miked]

I see this as a good thing.

When I was 10 I would spend hours in the woods stalking red squirrels with my pellet gun. I had been shooting since I was big enough to cock and shoot my grandfathers Red Ryder BB gun. And no, I never put my eye out. :smile:

[Dominator]

Parent's call...every ten year old is different :coolgleam:

[Tyler]

My uncle frequently took his son out with him while he hunted BEFORE he was 10. Needless to say, my cousin is now an avid outdoors man, and hunter. I would have completely trusted him to be the one with the gun when he was that age, however, he just sat and enjoyed the outdoors!