Wanted: hunting mentors | The Courier-Journal

By Gary Garth • Special to The Courier-Journal • January 18, 2009

License sales indicate that the number of young hunters in Kentucky is declining.

Theories as to why include the state’s shift to a mostly urban population and kids’ obsession with cell phones, text messaging and endless hours of computer face time.

As far as Jeff Stewart is concerned, all of those ideas are window dressing for the real reason kids aren’t hunting:

Adults aren’t taking them.

“Every one us — that is, adults who hunt — every one of us have friends who don’t hunt but have boys or girls who get excited when they hear about deer hunting or any kind of hunting,” said Stewart, 43. “If we don’t take kids hunting, then one day there isn’t going to be any more (sport) hunting.”

Stewart lives in Murray and does most of his hunting on his Hickman County family farm, where he and some buddies have a camp. His home is generously decorated with deer mounts, several taken by his 15-year-old daughter, Haley, who has been hunting with him since she was 9.  Click link below for full story!

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