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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fritz the Cat" data-source="post: 268458" data-attributes="member: 605">Exactly. A good indicator would be bird dog sales. No one in North Dakota raises English Setter Pointers. The last guy was Havelock Setters New England. Sales lagged and he retired. Guys under 50 years old are not buying.I don't follow duck dog sales but it would be interesting to know how many younger guys are making purchases. Of course you don't need a duck dog to hunt ducks. But the trends and parallels are right in front of us. Duck hunting is an art. Knowing what the ducks are going to do before they do it is a study. Well trained dogs are a big responsibility on and off the field. Duck hunting is dedication. I'm not meeting a lot of younger people with the same enthusiasm to get muddy, cold and sometimes skunked.I'm getting a visual that the Minnesota Waterfowl Association was a couple old guys sitting around talking about the good old days with absolutely no idea how to recruit the younger guys. I understand their problem. Over the years I had to tell my son over and over get to bed so he could get up in the morning. Don't sit up playing video games. Take along enough clothes. Buy his license and make sure he has it in his pocket. Make sure he has ammo and his gun. And then sit there in the blind and watch him be distracted by his phone. Each one of us has this dream when we get elderly and things get too difficult to operate the boat or put out decoys, our sons will take us. Some of us will have to "settle" for shooting ducks virtual reality on a computer screen. Government agencies along with their surrogate conservation orgs already know all this. Their paychecks and/or livelihoods depend upon peoples interest in the outdoors. They are seeking partnerships with backpackers, birdwatchers, hikers and even the...……?Anyway, Minnesota Waterfowl Association disbanded more than likely because they could not recognize change.</blockquote>

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