When to start a youngster on his first safari?

[Bob Nelson 35Whelen]

It's called: boy meets girls or girl meets boys syndrome,....aka the dating years.

As you said, they will either get back into hunting or they won't. It's where they find their niche in life.

My buddy's grandson, that likes-liked-likes to go hunting with me, is in that phase.

@Ridge Runner
My son met girl almost 3 years ago and said girl doesn't hunt.
BUT
BOY SAY IM GOING HUNTING and girl says ok.
Her brother now wants to get into hunting.
He also cooks game meat for girl and her family as they love venison but had only had it at restaurants. Now they eat free range venison.
Bob

 

[Bob Nelson 35Whelen]

It all depends where you want to live. A relevant saying is "Montana is poverty with a million dollar view".

We've driven as far as 28 hours for quality hunts. It's better now where we can hunt our own land for a few species, but its still generally a long drive. Sure, we can go to Canada for a $4500 bear hunt any time we want, plus lodging and a 12 hour drive, OR we can boast of how cheap it is to just put in points for $6 a year and draw a tag after 14 years and then drive a mere 4 hours and pay a mere $1750 access fee, for example.

If you know a place in America where there is unlimited free hunting and loads of public land that also has jobs that cover the estimated costs of $500,000 per child to raise them x3, lay it on me.

Otherwise, I'd say going to Africa is about as cheap of a hunt as you can actually put together unless your time is worthless and your fuel and tires are free.

@rookhawk
All time is worthless unless you use it wisely and invest it in the right areas.
The unfortunate thing about time is we only have so much and you can't add to it or buy back wasted time to re-use. Plus we never know how much time we have so use it wisely it may end sooner than you think.
Bob