Youth Firearm Hunt Saturday, November 17
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The youth days are one of the best things that NJF&W ever started. I have lots of great memories of taking my boys out.
NJF&W now has them for turkey and waterfowl as well. It gives the kids a great opportunity without competition from other hunters and they have the first shot at potential trophy animals.
NJF&W also started a mentoring license program a few years ago which will hopefully bring adults and kids into hunting.
NJF&W now has them for turkey and waterfowl as well. It gives the kids a great opportunity without competition from other hunters and they have the first shot at potential trophy animals.
NJF&W also started a mentoring license program a few years ago which will hopefully bring adults and kids into hunting.
The mentoring is known as the Apprentice License program. I have been trying to get my wife to take advantage of it but so far she just wants to tag along with me without the gun that I bought for her to use. 
More info:
https://www.state.nj.us/dep/fgw/hntlic_apprentice.htm
More info:
https://www.state.nj.us/dep/fgw/hntlic_apprentice.htm
I have been trying to get my wife to take advantage of it but so far she just wants to tag along with me without the gun that I bought for her to use.
NJ used to participate in the BOW program. Unfortunately the last program was held in 2008.
https://www.nj.gov/dep/fgw/bow000.htm
https://www.uwsp.edu/cnr-ap/bow/Pages/default.aspx
Central Jersey Rifle & Pistol club holds a very good woman's program each year. Wifey has attended a couple of times.
http://www.cjrpc.org/wot/index.cfm
My club holds a woman's day every year too. The woman have the opportunity to shoot archery, handgun, rifle, and shotgun on our trap range. It's very popular. This year we had a Perazzi rep providing guns tailored expressly for women at our trap range.
My wife really wasn't very interested so I didn't push it. She is fascinated with deer hunting and for now, is still happy to share a blind with me and watch the deer. She will be shooting her 870 this weekend at our club's annual turkey shoot though and we have a lot of fun with that.
My wife is not a fan of the long gun either, prefers her Walther at the range and has become quite proficient with it. 
Might want to adjust the sights a little.My wife is not a fan of the long gun either, prefers her Walther at the range and has become quite proficient with it.
This year's NJ Hunting and Trapping Digest has an article (pg 76-77) about getting your kids interested in hunting. Written by a dad who is also a hunter and state biologist. I don't know anything about the subject, but it seems well written and full of good advice. (It has a picture of the author hunting with his 15-month old son riding in his backpack, then 11 years later the same boy as a youth hunter.)
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I was very fortunate and more than a little lucky to be raised as a hunter and fisherman by a Dad who lived the first 40 years of his life in the City of Camden. Except for his service in the Navy during WWII, he never ventured very far from Camden.
My family moved to Gibbsboro in 1957 and my Dad's co-worker got him interested in hunting. He bought a gun at Sears along with all of the stuff he needed to bird hunt and deer hunt and off he went. I couldn't wait to join them as I was growing up and I would wait by the door at the end of the day each time they went out to see how they did.
He got my first shotgun at 10 and that was my first year of hunting. I shot rabbits, squirrels and a pheasant that first year and I was hooked. We always deer hunted six-day until I was in my late teens but we were never successful, mainly because my Dad and his co-worker were far from experts and the Outdoor Channel and cable TV didn't exist yet.
At age 14 a kid can hunt on his own without parental supervision, even today. Once I turned 14, I hunted far more than my Dad because I would go out after school and rabbit hunt behind my house and in the summer I hunted crows. My friends and I hunted crows almost every day in the summer on Dobbs' Farm that used to be across from the Echelon Mall.
Hunting and the shooting sports in general teach values, ethics and skills that will last a lifetime.
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Not the Pines, but it fits just about anywhere.
http://www.adirondackdailyenterpris...05/who-will-fill-the-boots-of-the-old-timers/
http://www.adirondackdailyenterpris...05/who-will-fill-the-boots-of-the-old-timers/