Mr. Sloan: As much as I hate to admit it, the world has moved-on from many of the "treasures" of the baby-boomer generation. Getting more kids involved in shooting and hunting couldn't hurt but...I can't see how that will change much at this point.

When this country was more agrarian, people had both the places and the time to go afield with a decent doublegun. Doing that these days (at least in the industrialized [& crowded] east and west coasts) is getting pretty tough to do (even for the well-heeled). I don't have a crystal ball, so I can't see how all this is resolved (or even if it can be). Unless you have been born into a hunting (& shooting) family, none of this will mean anything to you as a younger person.

My collage-aged son was raised with all the guns and hunting he could ever hope to want and he's lukewarm about it all at-best. Computers, and cars, and cloths, and girls, and you-name-it have a much bigger grasp on him right now. He might come to better appreciate it some day but...we'll have to see about that.