Getting Harder to find younger hunters to commit?

[Gilroy]

My camp (owner) rule is come when you can...go when you have to go...just have a good time while your here. People come and go and thats okay because I am willing to take a chance on new guys. I have 15 members some who don't hunt more than a couple days and a bunch of guys who take the open spots for a couple days. Work weekends are optional and if you can't afford the 300 dollar membership or 30 bucks a nite to bad for you. All I am hearing here is a lot of excuses. I found a way to buy land provide beds 15 plus people, never missed a gun hunt for deer(10 days minimum) 1 week of moose, done lot's of bow hunting, black powder, moose up north, ice fishing, snowmobiling, atvs and it goes on but it sounds like I am bragging so my advice is stop whining with excuses if you can't go or you have no members do something about it...I am in sales (but not always) and like my hunting camp I hear a lot more no's then yes's but it is never gonna stop me...How about you...??

I left the most important thing I have the greatest wife of 25 years...that was the smartest thing I did marrying her. If their saying no hunting now well good luck to yeah...cuz if your having girl problems I feel bad for you son I got 99 problems but a.....ain't one

Sounds pretty interesting people coming and going as they please and it all works out. Maybe some more details,how many acres are you hunting on for these 15 members.Are you hunting private or Crown land.How many guys get a stand. If people dont show for work weekends why do some show.

Also some little details like how is your liability insurance.Your charging these guys per night,so do you have insurance when they fall/injure themselves on your property and they or their loved ones decide to sue you into the middles ages.

[Young Buck]

I am a young hunter 27 and as my peers stated the money and economy isn't what it once was to you baby boomers who are our parents . Houses have gone up so much , inflation ,gas ,food again housing . All this has put a huge impact on hunting making it seem more of a luxury for those getting there foot in the door .

I get two weeks of vacation a year one is used in the spring fishing the other is combined with long weekends . So no room for a week at camp . Another factor is we have a controlled deer hunt and no camp is required .

Technology if you do not keep updated you will be left behind ,yes I have a I phone , laptop ,flat screen etc but that is the future ,now kids get tablets in school instead of books see a trend ?

[canthitathing]

Hmmmm, where were all these "we need some hunters" camps this spring when I was looking for a group to join? OK, for the record, I'm interested in exchanging info with a Moose hunting group for next year. Lots of time, lol, to make sure the fit is right.

[HuntCamp'r]

Hmmmm, where were all these "we need some hunters" camps this spring when I was looking for a group to join? OK, for the record, I'm interested in exchanging info with a Moose hunting group for next year. Lots of time, lol, to make sure the fit is right.

You might want to apply for this position under another forum "name".

[Oddmott]

Your post made me rethink pushing a cousin of mine into hunting. He's also a world class mooch... and I don't think i could take having to pay for all the gear and supplies he uses on top of the rides I already give him.

Thanks for saving me from myself. lol

[greatwhite]

Young buck I am begining of Gen X or the end of the boomers depending how you look at it. But part of the problem I see is most people want everything new houses, computers, TV's what ever and they want it now and it doesn't work that way.

I can't count the number of times you lads 16 - 25 have said they want to go buy right away the crap I havae took me most of my life to aquire this junk.

I never had any help I buy all my equipment used from PC's to hunting and fishing equipment. I'm not saying you but most folks need to get their pirorities straight. BAby boomers didn't start out rich. Many were just as poor or even poorer then today's generation. When I was born my parents registered below the Canadian Poverty line (dad actually earned a second income from poker - yeah he was good).

Not trying to be insulting just my take on things.

I am a young hunter 27 and as my peers stated the money and economy isn't what it once was to you baby boomers who are our parents . Houses have gone up so much , inflation ,gas ,food again housing . All this has put a huge impact on hunting making it seem more of a luxury for those getting there foot in the door .

I get two weeks of vacation a year one is used in the spring fishing the other is combined with long weekends . So no room for a week at camp . Another factor is we have a controlled deer hunt and no camp is required .

Technology if you do not keep updated you will be left behind ,yes I have a I phone , laptop ,flat screen etc but that is the future ,now kids get tablets in school instead of books see a trend ?

[justinanika]

One of my buddies i hunt with still has to learn that life isnt free. He loves to hunt and fish, but mooches like a starving dog at a dinner table. He Btches and complains when you ask him to split gas in the truck

i have a friend like this as well. scrounges for his fee for his two weeks at deer camp. stays maybe three nights. i have to supply him with smokes just to stay that long. has no problem using using any of our supplies or guns ( so cheap he wont even go get his PAL) then at the end of it all complains because he doesnt get enough meat from us after the hunt is all over with. And this guy is in his late 30's

[welsh]

I'm not saying you but most folks need to get their pirorities straight. BAby boomers didn't start out rich.

Maybe they do, and their priorities simply don't happen to be the same as yours.

This seems to be a possibility that several people here haven't considered, with all this talk of people "making excuses."

[greatwhite]

I have to disagree with that. If that is their pirorties and they cannot afford them because they feel they are something special and should magically have everything in life instantly then they need to reexamine them. Most people don't instantly have wealth some do but the majority doesn't. As I said before I can't start to count the number of people (young adults), that seem to think I have acquired all this crap over a life time. But yet they seem to think I did and that they should get it instantly as well. Doesn't work that way. It's called working your way up the ladder.

Get a kick speaking to teens, young adults that feel with no education and no experience they should be making 100K to sit on their .

The young lad I am teaching to hunt and handle guns was amazed at the various equipment I have aquired (nothing special). From Hunting and camping to automotive tools etc. I sat him down and showed him how old some of this equipment is and how I have rebuilt my own stuff over time years of sweat and tears. Yes some people get it easy but most don't it require something that many youth no longer seem to understand it require WORK.

Maybe they do, and their priorities simply don't happen to be the same as yours.

This seems to be a possibility that several people here haven't considered, with all this talk of people "making excuses."

[welsh]

I have to disagree with that. If that is their pirorties and they cannot afford them because they feel they are something special .....

The issue here is not that they can't afford their priorities. The issue is that they can't also afford to be members of some moose camp, prompting people like you to complain that they need to get their priorities straight because, as everyone knows, everyone whose priorities differ from yours is lazy and doesn't know the value of hard work.

Yes, yes. Young people are lazy, young people expect it all, young people ought to learn respect, blah, blah, blah. You're turning into a caricature with every passing word.