When you get the chance to pass on the gifts and experiences had afield with a friend, consider yourself lucky. It’s a privilege to have someone value your knowledge and extremely rewarding to watch as they progress.

It’s not every day you get to share the mountain of outdoor knowledge you have compiled over many years. Many hunters will listen to what you have to say, but for some reason, never apply it. It’s especially rewarding to have a student who not only listens, but retains and utilizes the information that you have provided. I have to be honest and say more often than not you will get a know-it-all. I have learned that it is way more common to find such negative traits in adult hunters than compared with youths. Kids tend to take your word for things and just do, while adults tend to question and attempt to use their own logic to make sense of the situation. The problem is, most of their compiled experiences happened around people and simply don’t translate to the woods. When the time comes to rationalize a situation, it will typically be inspected through a human’s, not an animal’s, perspective. I believe this is the biggest mistake that hunters make that can be easily avoided.