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General Category => National Outdoor News Headlines => Topic started by: mudbrook on June 10, 2009, 02:24:00 PM

Title: Ten-year-olds may soon be able to go hunting in Wisconsin
Post by: mudbrook on June 10, 2009, 02:24:00 PM
Ten-year-olds may soon be able to go hunting in Wisconsin

Ten-year-olds would be able to go hunting in Wisconsin as long as they’re accompanied by an adult under a measure that cleared the Wisconsin State Senate Tuesday.

Wisconsin’s legal hunting age is 12. This plan would not change that, but it would let 10-and-11 year olds hunt as long as they’re with someone who’s at least 18.

The younger hunters would be required to stay within an arm’s length of their mentors. The pair would only be allowed to carry one gun between them. Advocates say it will help pass on Wisconsin’s tradition of hunting to a younger generation. Senate Democratic Majority Leader Russ Decker - himself a hunter - was among the plan’s sponsors.

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http://www.superiortelegram.com/event/article/id/35557/