Families Afield Success Continues
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Families Afield Success Continues





Wyoming is the latest state to enact Families Afield-style legislation. Gov. Dave Freudenthal signed into law Senate File 51, which will allow youths and other novice hunters to receive a one-year special authorization to hunt with a licensed adult before completion of a hunter education course. Since Families Afield was launched in 2004 by NSSF, the U.S. Sportsmen's Alliance and National Wild Turkey Federation, 24 states have passed legislation to eliminate unnecessary hunting age restrictions and ease hunter education mandates for first-time hunters. In related news, USSA reports that nearly 31,000 new hunters in Michigan have taken advantage of the state's apprentice hunting license since it become law in 2005. Similar legislation in Wisconsin, however, remains mired in the state legislature.

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