Our youth is hunting's future in Pennsylvania. When most of us baby boomers started hunting we cut our teeth on rabbits and ringnecks here in Pa. It was fun and exciting, we got to shoot at game often. There was plenty of land to hunt on not far from home so you could make it out for a hunt after school and on Saturdays. Nowadays most private land is posted no trespassing, which pushes hunters on to overcrowded State Game Lands that for many is a considerable distance to travel with very little small game to hunt. Kids want to shoot the gun, it's what keeps their interest, they don't want to sit quietly and still for hours waiting for a turkey or a deer which is what Pa. hunting has evolved into. I don't know the answer but if video games and cell phones continue to be more exciting to our kids than hunting the sport is doomed.
