Spotlight on Youth

TNUSA is dedicated to the education and involvement of the Youth of America in the wonderful world of outdoors.  Each year Kamp for Kids events are held to teach kids hunters safety and other outdoor skills.  In addition TNUSA of Michigan has an Adopt-A-Hunter program that pairs up new youth hunters with adult guides to give them the chance to experience first hand the true "Spirit of the Wild" and the thrill of the hunt.

Spotlight on Youth shares the stories of the successes that kids have had fulfilling the ultimate call of the wild.  To submit a story please contact the TNUSA of Michigan Youth Director at youth.director@tnusami.com.  Please include a picture of the youth with their catch and a brief story detailing the event.

A PROUD DAD??? YOU BET!!!.....my daughter Sierra told me she had the best day ever after we spent the entire day at Huron Bay Lodge mushroom hunting and shooting. Huron Bay Lodge is owned by a good friend Tom Buchan. It's a 1,400 acre trophy Bull Elk, Red Stag and Whitetail Preserve 30 minutes from our home in the western UP, up on the Point Abbaye Peninsula. Some of you have been there and know what I'm talking about! Tom invites me out often to pick Morels, shoot, ride the trails and hunt predators. The mushroom hunting is second to none. The bowl of Morel's pictured is about 1-1/2 hours effort from Sierra and myself. Sierra shot her first pistol today, a Browning Buckmark 22 cal., along with the Walther rifle/aimpoint scope setup seen in the pix...She surprised me when after only 5 shots she got the red dot thing figured out and spun the paddle 3 for 3 at 30 yards with the Walther! I was beside myself with pride! She's hooked!  She wouldn't stop talking about it the entire ride home!! Some may think 8 is too young to expose a child to real firearms....I disagree...when shown the proper way to handle, load, aim and fire, it's a perfect age. Beats exposing them to a joystick...which in my mind is a guaranteed anchor to advancement...

 

Inspirational role model? You bet!