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New book on kids and hunting

By James Swan
ESPNOutdoors.com

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

"When some of my friends have asked me anxiously about their boys, whether they should let them hunt, I have answered 'yes,' — remembering that it was one of the best parts of my education — make them hunters…" Henry David Thoreau penned those words in his 1854 classic, Walden, when kids grew up a lot closer to nature. Unfortunately, modern philosophers have few such kinds words about hunting. And in fact, kids these days grow up being bombarded by anti-hunting messages, whi ...

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