Poverty certainly can keep the young out of the outdoors.
Shooting Skeet is $15.00 a line now.
There are no more trappers at my club.
No more young people.
Nobody brings their kids with any regularity.
As I look back on my sporting life, starting in the middle 1970s, I can say that fuel costs were by and largely the greatest influence on how frequently I enjoy the outdoors.
Judging from what I see around me today, things really haven’t changed much.
I used to coach young people about getting a prepaid credit card, and make regular sporting life deposits to it during the fat part of the year when they had extra money coming in. That way when the fall came, fuel and license costs weren’t an issue.
I don’t do that anymore.
It’s more fun to listen to people whine about how expensive everything is. And it is, to the unprepared.
