Getting Harder to find younger hunters to commit?

[JBen]

Im sometime surprised when people dig their heels in with respect to things that are widely accepted, known, whatever. Much has been written about Gen Y, just as much was written about Gen X and just as things have been and continue to be written about Baby Boomers.

Gen Y has a "fear of commitment". Its seen in their professional lives and personal.
Gen Y is also the instant access generation.
They've been pampered, told the world is theirs, and on and on and on.

Just one of hundreds of articles on it.
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/money...06-gen-y_x.htm

Finances/priorities. Some things apply to everyone young and old.
Some guys decide to buy bass boats, sacrificing vacations to sunny locales and dinners at restaurants. Some decide to buy trucks or ATVs. Me, I've sacrificed tons of common place luxuries many people just have to have (yearly vacations) (restaurants) etc, etc, etc, etc to buy my camera equipment. I cannot recall the last time I took 2 weeks off work and hopped on a plane. If I didn't have my camera equipment maybe Id have an ATV or a boat or maybe even 50 acres to call my own.

Then to, in this day and age we all have (broad terms) cable tv, ISP, Cells and much more. If I had to guess my yearly cost for my ISP/Cell/Tv is in the area of $3,000. <<Thats an expense my parents certainly didn't have. And incidentally more than covers the cost of Deer/Moose hunting for a week.

My parents walked to school in the snow uphill, they sacrificed, both loved the outdoors. for my Dad and my mother 4 day and 10 day trips into the bush were yearly things. Why? Because A) that was important to them and B) thats how they spent time with close friends/family…(in the absence of instant, 24/7 connectivity).

Im sure, if they were glued to the hip with their closest friends/family as todays youth/people are making the time to see them twice or thrice a year might not have been as high on the priority scale. My parents didn't even have cable TV for years and years. What did they do for "entertainment"? They went and visited friends, went camping, went fishing, went hunting.

How many people see kids playing hockey in the street anymore?

[greatwhite]

Obviously you are only focusing on the hunting portion when I am talking life in general. Most young people and article after article backs me up. They expect the world to drop in their lap.

I don't belong to any full time camp, I don't complain about life in general I take it as it comes. I don't belong to a "Real Camp" nor do I complain about it. Personally I cannot spend the money on it right now. Maybe some day I will build my own camp (Actually the lumber is sitting out back in the barn, just for that purpose). My point is to sometimes obtain objectives in life requires sacrifice very few are willing to do that and I see it every day in the News. The complaint about no job can't make enough money blah blah blah . I have turned down so many extra side jobs paying good coin it would make your head spin.

Currently my pirority are my wife and kids and their friends. Most of my spare time is spent with them. I don't have time for a full time camp nor do I complain about it. I don't do all the cool hunting and fishing trips others do on here primarily because I prefer and enjoy taking my kid's out on excursions. If people can't afford it instead of complaining about it do something.

Hunting and fishing doesn't requires a huge amount of money. I spend probably less then 100 a year on equipment. The rest I spend is to take my kid's and me out camping and fishing. By the way I have posted two myself and have seen at least a dozen camps looking for people that did not appear to be expensive.

By the way.anyone coming camping with me I would expect them to put more then their fair share in of work. Even the young lad I am teaching could understand that.

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.

[TurkeyRookie]

How's this for an excuse... Wife is due wit our second November 29th, got the OK to head to deer camp, Oct 31st back home on November 10th.

She goes to Doctor today, and was asked when are you do again? she says the 29th of November, dr says, yea, im gonna say 3-4 weeks I think your dialated already.

&%^$!!!!!!!!!

We'll see how this goes, off to the Midwife tomorrow and then hopefully an internal to get the facts.

[MikePal]

Hunting is nowhere near as important as that date TR.....a no brainer and a good excuse

[greatwhite]

Early Congrats do you know yet boy or girl

How's this for an excuse... Wife is due wit our second November 29th, got the OK to head to deer camp, Oct 31st back home on November 10th.

She goes to Doctor today, and was asked when are you do again? she says the 29th of November, dr says, yea, im gonna say 3-4 weeks I think your dialated already.

&%^$!!!!!!!!!

We'll see how this goes, off to the Midwife tomorrow and then hopefully an internal to get the facts.

[welsh]

Obviously you are only focusing on the hunting portion when I am talking life in general. Most young people and article after article backs me up. They expect the world to drop in their lap.

Yes, I am talking about hunting because this is a thread about recruiting young hunters to moose camps.

"Article after article" backs nothing up. Any fool can write an article, especially that goofy lifestyle-section crap and the dumb business articles by various consultants and recruiters. Based on what? Someone's notion? Some methodologically flawed horsecrap someone put together? This stuff is junk. And "most young people?" You've done your own surveys, then? Or is this the availability heuristic at work?

"Kids today" were lazy and entitled and expected the world to drop in their laps in 1970, if you asked their progenitors. Kids have always had unrealistic expectations. There are lots of lazy young people today, because there always have been. There are also lots of hard working high achievers.

[welsh]

Sounds like a pretty lame excuse to me, TR. You kids today. In my day we left the wife home with her mother and went hunting.

[impact]

How's this for an excuse... Wife is due wit our second November 29th, got the OK to head to deer camp, Oct 31st back home on November 10th.

She goes to Doctor today, and was asked when are you do again? she says the 29th of November, dr says, yea, im gonna say 3-4 weeks I think your dialated already.

&%^$!!!!!!!!!

We'll see how this goes, off to the Midwife tomorrow and then hopefully an internal to get the facts.

No problem, right? The midwife will take pictures and email them to you?...

I mean how many children are born to service men serving their country overseas each and every year while their wives are home alone. No big event, right?

I know, I know...just kidding. Congrats on the soon to be addition to your family!

[kdp89]

GW, I'm not sure what your getting at, you seem to be arguing for and against the young guys in the same post.

Many of us don't make it to camp because we have other priorities in our day to day lives that need taken care of... The opposite of expecting it to drop in our laps. I don't complain it's not fair that I can't go and that someone should pay for me. I'm a big boy and know that I have to work for what I get. Just like you have lumber in the shed for your future camp, I am working hard now when I am young so that I can have more opportunities later.

Im not trying to nitpick, but I stay home because I know that nothing is getting handed to me... But my priorities aren't right and I should be at camp?

[hoggie5692]

Great post...! Couldn't agree more.