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By PAM BELLUCK

GREEN MOUNTAIN NATIONAL FOREST, Vt. - Chomping wad after wad of Bubblicious Strawberry Splash gum and giggling as she tickled people's necks with a piece of grass she pretended was a spider, Samantha Marley could have been any 9-year-old girl.

A couple of things set her apart, though. She was cloaked in camouflage from boots to baseball cap. And propped next to her on the seat of a truck was her very own 20-gauge shotgun.

Samantha, a freckle-faced, pony-tailed fourth grader, was on a bear hunt. Not the pretend kind memorialized in picture books and summer-camp chants, but a real one for black bears that live in the woods of southwestern Vermont and can weigh 150 pounds or more.

She had won a "dream hunt" given away by a Vermont man whose goal is to get more children to hunt, and she had traveled about 200 miles from her home in Bellingham, Mass., and was missing three days of school to take him up on his offer.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/18/national/18hunting.html


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[Slovydal]

As a kid, I went hunting with my dad and his friends.

I was taught about gun safety and had a good experience. I'll never forget the time I shot my first bird - or how it tasted, barbecued at our camp that night.
I think hunting can be a good experience for young people (but 9 is kinda young)

Hunting a BEAR?

I never understood "trophy hunting" If your not going to eat it, what are you trying to prove?