Pass It On - Outdoor Mentors hosted 2 hunts over the weekend. We did a First Hunt for new hunter ed grads in the Emporia area on Saturday and a Youth Hunt on WIHA near Cheney Lake on Sunday afternoon.
The First Hunt was great with 16 new hunters getting a chance to harvest a bird, including a family of 4, mom, dad and 2 boys who had taken their hunter ed class the previous weekend. They're now ready chase 'em!
On Sunday, We took 7 young hunters out for a pheasant hunt on the special youth weekend. We hunted some WIHA fields west of Wichita on an afternoon hunt. While we didn't see any birds, the kids all had fun, saw some things they had never seen before and are ready to go again!
As we walked the fields of tall and thick grass, we were able to show the kids where the pheasants had roosted for the evening. We also saw some quail roosts and talked about how they would sleep as a covey in a circle with their tails in the middle.
As we walked into the second field, the young lady I was walking with dodged a fresh cow pie, exclaiming "What is that!!!" She couldn't believe what she was seeing! We have too many kids who aren't getting to see nature. Kids in Kansas who haven't seen a cow pie. Just WOW!