young lads and hunting

[deerhound working 3]

iv been around to a few packs over the xmas and during the year digging and hunting and iv noticed that most packs have no young lads hunting with them and the odd few i have seen are lazy not wanting to dig are just drive around in a van all day has any one else noticed this cos they wont have to ban hunting in ireland they will be no one going out

[ginge2k6 0]

Your right there mate, I don't live in Ireland but over here there is a general shortage of young kids of about 10-12 getting involved, I blame schools and just general soceity mate, Kids are so easy to mould that teachers and parents, other adults all have an effect on thier viewpoints. Personally i am still young (17) and love getting out and getting stuck in but until we change the way young lads and lasses are brought up and educated our sport will slowly fade away.

[waz77 15]

How many of us actually give the young uns a chance tho? When i was a kid a mate of my dads got me into the game and took me out but a yr later he died of a brain tumor.So there was i full of enthusiasm but not much knowledge.Could i feck get anyone else to take me out,and there were a few people around here who were into it then,so i plodded on and learnt the hard way on my own,i was about 7 then,im 30 now and only just started going out with a few other people,but when your young nobody wants you tagging on,shame really,although i learned a lot doing it the hard way im sure i would have learned more from someone with experience.

[Guest rio]

I DONT MIND HAVING A GO

 

[deerhound working 3]

iv been around to a few packs over the xmas and during the year digging and hunting and iv noticed that most packs have no young lads hunting with them and the odd few i have seen are lazy not wanting to dig are just drive around in a van all day has any one else noticed this cos they wont have to ban hunting in ireland they will be no one going out

what packs have you seen??...registerd packs i take it?? ...go to a few mavericks and you'll see plenty of young fellas running with hounds/digging

no most of the packs i go with are mavericks it is just something iv picked up on young lads not all young lads are not interested in going out week in week out i have foot beagles terriers and lurchers i hunt 4 days and lamp when the weather is right i had a young lad hunting with us mad for road he was and after a few hard weeks hunting he would only turned up every 2nd sunday are so and iv seen this in a lot of packs where we are not able to teach lads how to carry on our way of life cos they are to lazy to get out of bed now not all packs suffer from this and not all young lads are lazy but as iv said it is just something iv seen i hope for our sport to live on this will turn around and young people will carry the hunting tourch on

[Guest whitser]

playstation generation is more into sitting on their arses and eating junk. most of the young lads were i grew up are more interested in their hair and clothes then going out into the fields, f*****g sissys.

[moter poacher 2]

when i was a nipper,i used to go to a fellows house whos a well known terrier man lurcher man!i used to ask him allsorts wil you take me out etc?same reply all the time you will have to learn yourselfe etc?so i did,i obtained a terrier and started to dig foxes the same fellow was soon wanting to be in on the dig and all of a sudden he was there to give me advice :whistling:my son who is twelve his into fishing hes at the pond now fishing thats my boy :kiss: