Posted on 12/04/2015 12:08:20 PM PST by w1n1
Since 2000, hunting participation by females has risen dramatically in the U.S. In the first year of the new millennium, 5,264 females passed the mandatory hunter education course. The course is required of every hunter born on or after Sept. 2, 1971.
By 2010, 8,500 females, 20.3 percent of all students, passed hunter education. In 2014, 16,534 females took the course. Females represented 23 percent of last year's 72,015 hunter ed students. "We've been encouraging women to try hunting and shooting sports through our outreach programs," said Nancy Herron, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department's outreach and education director. "There's also been a surge in movies and television of very capable women being resourceful." Then there are women like Monica Bickerstaff, who married a man obsessed by hunting and fishing. She was ready for the fishing part, having fished with her dad while growing up in Kansas. She took up hunting to spend more time with her husband, L.D. Bickerstaff. Read the rest of the story here.
My wife grew up in a hunting family. Her Mom hunts and is a concealed deadly weapons instructor. Her favorite hunt was for ground hogs at the local farms who would dig dangerous holes in the ground. When 10 yrs of age they were hunting them on a family friends farm and a hog popped up and she hammered it and 150 yards with a .22 hornet. The hornet knocked it down and it staggered back up and she popped him again and he stayed down. She handed the gun to her Dad and said I want a bigger gun, from then on she shot a .223.
I LOVE that!
Oh, why did I have to be born and raised in Queens, NY???
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Real Tree camo?
I’m originally from Brooklyn. It’s never too late!
spike
With me, it’s always too late!
Didn't matter, just walking the fields with a shotgun in my hands and taking in the fresh air and solitude of that part of the country was all I needed to have a great time..........
I'd love to get out there again but have no interest in hiring a professional outfitter to provide me with a carefully calculated hunt............
Beau teaches Hunter Safety for kids and there are more girls in now than ever before. A lot of younger boys (you can hunt at 10 with an adult and ONE gun between you in our state) are taking the course, too.
Glad to see it!
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