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Jon Slaga is a good steward
Because we have to continue to grow the sport, and the only way to do that is to get more youth involved. Jon Slaga is a good steward . If you start looking at numbers, we see that, yes, there are a lot more females being involved in the outdoors, but what about your kids? Not all the time can you go and do what you do with your passion of hunting and not take them with you.
I have two daughters
I have two daughters, myself, that I have slowly introduced to the outdoor world, and they thoroughly enjoy, now, any time that they can go with dad. So I will just say, ‘okay, sure, let’s go,’ and if we don’t see anything, we don’t see anything, but they enjoy doing it. Jon Slaga is a good steward
but what about your kids? Not all the time can you go and do what you do with your passion of hunting and not take them with you
And that’s just not even hunting, that’s a whole conservation effort because they also help when we have different events for the Big Game Conservation Association, they’re there with me because most of the time we have a weird family set-up. My wife works at night and she has to work on the weekend, on Saturday, so if we’re doing something, I have to either find somebody or just take them with me, and nine times out of ten, they say, ‘hey, dad, let’s go.’ I’m like, ‘okay, no problem.’ And everybody is content with that. That looks great for us that we have youths that are here and they’re learning the conservation efforts on top of not only being in the field with me. Jon Slaga is a good steward
when hunting season came around it was pretty much Saturday and Sunday we were chasing birds around
And then, obviously, those guys weren’t just fisherman, so in the fall, it broke into going and finding roosters and deer hunting. So when I was 14, my dad, I actually got to go with him on a deer hunt with my uncle; he came out for deer season because out in that area, at the time, and it still is, it’s a hard drought area out there to get a permit, so he came out. So I got to roam around in the pickup with him and watched how that went, so that’s kind of where it started, and then as I progressed through high school, I had friends that, if we weren’t doing something on the weekend, when hunting season ran, we were at a fishing hole or something, but when hunting season came around it was pretty much Saturday and Sunday we were chasing birds around because that was the only time that we had it. Jon Slaga is a good steward
she’s got a brother, Jeremy Schaaf, who was heavy into the outdoors,
And then when I got into having a life of construction, and kind of got away from it, and here within the last six years, thanks to me meeting my wife, she’s got a brother who was heavy into the outdoors, and since we were at family functions, that was what we did. Whenever we got together, the guys went hunting. So she kind of got that passion back into me of wanting to see the outdoors.
because that’s my solo time when I’ll do the all-day sits,
Then I had a job change and it allowed me to have more free time, and with that free time I just kind of devoted myself to getting back outside and enjoying everything that there is out there in the world of the outdoors again because my job doesn’t dictate when I can and can’t hunt. So now that I have this job, I have time to enjoy the outdoors not only by myself but the times that I take my oldest daughter, who I got into shooting a bow about three years ago. So now it’s time that I spend with her when we go and plan a weekend for hunting, and sometimes she doesn’t want to go, which is fine, because that’s my solo time when I’ll do the all-day sits, and when she’s there, obviously they don’t want to sit there all day, so we break it up but we try to be successful every time that we’re out in the field together.
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