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Wisconsin just lowered its minimum hunting age to 10. Until now children had to be 12 to hunt with an adult and 14 to hunt alone. I was kind of surprised at this, but it turns out thirty states don't even have a minimum hunting age on the books.
Wisconsin's new law, which goes into effect on Tuesday, allows anyone 10 or older to hunt with an adult mentor (there can be only one gun or bow between them) without taking a safety course.The law also gives kids discounts on hunting licenses and stamps.
Supporters say the new law will get kids interested in hunting earlier, thereby preserving Wisconsin's rich hunting traditions. Critics don't like the idea of 10-year-olds with firearms and say that someone will inevitably get hurt.
Does your child hunt? Does he or she go alone or with an adult? Does your state have minimum age requirements for hunting?
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Comments (23)
Personally I think it should be 18 - PERIOD. JMO.
I was born and raised in WI, and our family always hunted. We went with my family hunting when we were very young, and loved it. We took the hunter safety course, which is required, and our family took all precaucions to teach us how to handle a gun safetly. There are a few states that the legal limit to hunt alone is 11, like in MO. IMO that is too young. I don't think they should hunt alone until 18, although I never hunted alone. It was much more fun to hunt with someone.
BTW -
* Seven states — Alabama, Arkansas, Indiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Vermont and Washington — set no minimum age for solo hunting.
* In Texas, kids can hunt alone when they are 9.
* In Alaska, Louisiana and Tennessee, the minimum age for unsupervised hunting is 10, in Missouri it’s 11, and in nine other states it’s 12.
Are you f**king kidding me? Those ages are WAY too low. If you can't be trusted with a car, you CERTAINLY cannot be trusted with a damned gun. Eighteen should be the bare minimum for a child to operate a gun, with an adult or not.
Disgusts me that anyone would think it's family fun to have a child murder an animal for no damn reason. If you're trapped in the woods, starving to death, then do what you need to do. But I'm sure that's rarely the scenario. UGH.
Hunting has always been a tradition in my family. My son is 10 and he has been hunting (with adults of course) since he was 6. When he is 12 he will take the Hunter Safety Course. When children are raised around firearms and they are taught to respect them and how dangerous they can be it makes them a lot more careful than those who are never allowed around them. I know a lot of people think that a child killing a poor animal is cruel, but everything my kills is used as food. If we have too much then we give it away. A lot of families are fed in our area thanks to the hunters.
Hunting is very necessary in Wisconsin for population control or the animals (Dear) will starve and spread dease you have to get a permit to hunt and take hunter safety courses I grew up in Burlington Wis and we hunted it is a good and fun family experience its not just killing its camping and fishing and learning about plants and other wild life that depend on us and stuff bonfires smores and yes killing a animal for food and for fur this has been done since the dawn of time and we are all hunter gathers children who hunt see and feel what guns are for and respect the weapon and the consequences of using the gun most hunters are very educated and safe but accidents do happen not that often like drive by shootings and shooting at schools Yes hunting is not for everyone and I respect that but for those of us that do like to hunt Please know there is a worse chance of you getting shot by a gang banger than by a hunter even at age 10
I'm sorry, but I still completely disagree, both with the age of kids using guns AND that children raised around them are safer.
Me too Rana.
And I don't think hunting is necessary unless you're starving and it's your only source of food. I think it's murder for no reason other than cruelty. Sorry.
Well I would rather go hunt for my food than pay some of the outragious prices in the stores for meat! This is a topic that is like religion and politics, your not going to get eveyone on your side or make everyone happy. You just have to agree to disagree!