Be A Mentor - Wisconsin Youth Hunter Mentoring Program

Wisconsin Hunters have an opportunity to help young kids get started at hunting by participating in the Mentoring Program. This is a way for kids who are 10 or 11 to get out and do some safe hunting. They are too young for Hunter Safety, so this program lets them actually hunt before they take the HS course.

A mentor has to be at least 18 years old and the parent of the kids or have permission from the parent to take them out. A mentor can only take one kid at a time out into the woods. The mentor must have a Wisconsin hunting license of some kind. Any hunting license is fine. One gun or bow can be taken with the mentor/child. And the young hunter must be within an Arms Reach of the mentor at all times.

There are a lot of kids from single parent homes or homes where neither parent hunts that would love to be in this program. By mentoring them you give them a new outlook on the outdoors and open them to the great enjoyment of experiencing nature.

I’ve introduced dozens of kids to the outdoors and helped most of my 32 exchange students hunt for the first time and I guarantee there is no bigger thrill than seeing the look on the face of a new hunter the first time he or she gets that first shot. Take a kid hunting. You’ll have a friend for life.

by: Dan Bomkamp
author and host of "How's Fishing?"