I taught hunter safety for many years and I agree most were excited and gung ho. Some gun club members and I take kids out on the October Youth Hunt ("Rent a kid hunt")and this is where I saw the kids attitude change the last two years because of lack of deer sightings. Their attention span gets short in a hurry.
The kid's expectations are high because they grew up in an amazing deer hunting media world and saw the high deer kill success rate in Wisconsin. When I grew up in southwest Wisconsin my friends and I did not have high expectations...there were few if any deer. We joined our grandfathers, fathers and uncles on the Up North migration to hunt deer.
In addition, we were not distracted by TV, game videos, cell phones and etc., or ability to drive ATV's around.
