Female Hunters in USA Are On The Rise

[TurkeyRookie]

Some of the memeories....

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Awesome pictures! Everyone should be so lucky to have their children want to spend time with dad and mom in the woods, my oldest (3) is hunting obessed (comes by it honestly) and from that, mom started tagging along as she want's to spend time with him to. Here's hoping our youngest (3 months) catches the bug to!

[bushcannon]

Looks like some good times bushcannon

Thanks, it was a few years ago, but they still talk about those days.

[bushcannon]

Awesome pictures! Everyone should be so lucky to have their children want to spend time with dad and mom in the woods, my oldest (3) is hunting obessed (comes by it honestly) and from that, mom started tagging along as she want's to spend time with him to. Here's hoping our youngest (3 months) catches the bug to!

Thanks, I find that your kids will bond with you because they are included. When they are part of the hunt, they feel like part of a team. The amount of social time is un-replaceable. From the time the night before getting the gear ready, to the drive to the spot and the time spent in the stand. My kids learned a lot from and I learn a lot from them.

In regards to your youngest, start them early as possible and the "bug" will come naturally. It's important that they don't get negative feed back about hunting at that age because from what I saw, it could effect them later on. Teach them the conservation aspect of the sport.

Good Luck and Fond Memories

[myot]

My daughter is 8 she shoots her bow weekly (Bear Apprentice) she's watched me shoot Turkeys and sat in a double stand and a ground blind on deer hunts
she loves watching hunting shows specially the ones with "pretty girls" ie. Tiffany Latousky and Eva Shockey she likes the fact you can be beautiful and hunt too.
she has plans to go for her apprenticeship as soon as she's 12 and make her first harvest that fall

Dan

[bushcannon]

My daughter is 8 she shoots her bow weekly (Bear Apprentice) she's watched me shoot Turkeys and sat in a double stand and a ground blind on deer hunts
she loves watching hunting shows specially the ones with "pretty girls" ie. Tiffany Latousky and Eva Shockey she likes the fact you can be beautiful and hunt too.
she has plans to go for her apprenticeship as soon as she's 12 and make her first harvest that fall




Dan

That's Awesome! Like I said before, start them young.

[honeysky]

If I could only get my wife to hunt...would be perfect.

Darn right!!! Then she would understand why we need to spend all that money and time in the woods

[trimmer21]

Nothing wrong with hunting and getting a quicky in the bush.

Funny you mention that. I just had a conversation with buddies wife about hunting alone. She said she would never hunt alone in case she got lost. I told her that if she ever got lost while by herself,all she needed to do was peel off every stitch of clothing and stretch out butt naked. Guaranteed there would be a couple of guys show up within minutes. She wouldn't be lost anymore.

[DGearyFTE]

goosesniper had it right...a bit of romance in the woods would be fun. However, if you've watched the Blue Collar Comedy tour (I have the whole collection BTW) you will remember Bill Engvall talking about going deer hunting with his wife. Here is the YouTube link... I recommend watching while not drinking coffee...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NodQ6cS_G1Y

[JBen]

Not sure why anyone wouldn't want it, wouldnt want to hunt with a female.
/puzzled

Both my daughters were introduced to the Outdoors young. Both love it. My eldest (the Tom boy) has no interest in hunting, she is the nature lover and while she loves eating anything, she herself at this point in her life, couldnt do it.

My youngest is a typical girly girl. She's into makeup, clothing, malls, competitive gymnastics, dance and cheer. She wants to gt her PAL and come hunting with me. I'd love nothing more.

Here is at 14 before an illness put an end to most of her competitive sports.


Here she is at around 5, following a long held tradition I have with respect to fishing.


Here she is on the range at 13


Here they are having breakfast back in Algonquin at 11 and 14


Here they are that same summer


Here they both are this past summer


And here they both are in this months issue of OOD




Either of them, could be your DiL someday.
I'm lucky I have 3 girls in my life who love the Outdoors. Be it hunting, be it fishing, be it camping.

Whats not to love about that.

[Dythbringer]

Joepa,

I didn't know the noun Hunter was specifically male. In fact, all of the dictionaries I have looked at describes the term Hunter as a person who hunts. None of the dictionaries denote a hunter as a male or hunting as a male activity. Looking at the animal kingdom, females of predator species take part in hunting with some species (lions) the females do the majority of the hunting.

With that out of the way, I am glad more and more females are deciding to persue hunting for a number of reasons. One, the more voices in support of hunting is always a good thing. Two, having females hunters onboard will hopefully soften the non-hunting public's image of hunting of macho he-men who simply want to go out and shoot as many animals as we can and get them on our side when it comes to hunting issues. Three, fathers spending more time with their daughters passing down their hunting passion is a good thing.

Dyth