“nra youth hunter education challenge”

In 1985, we launched a program to facilitate friendly competition among youths 18 and younger that would advance hunting skills including wildlife identification, orienteering and rifle, shotgun and archery marksmanship. Today, thousands of hunter education volunteers and parents still conduct this program at the state and local level to produce safer, more skillful and more ardent American hunters.

Despite its importance as a good food source, as a wildlife-management tool and as a crucial source of funding for conservation in the United States, hunting remains vulnerable to misinformation and negative attention from ill-informed media, which can encourage support for restrictive legislation. The hunting community must appeal to non-hunters through common goals, motivations and values if our pastime is to remain a fixture in American life.

For new hunters, mentors who have “been there, done that” are invaluable resources. Fortunately, numerous opportunities for beginning hunters to receive expert tutelage exist across the nation as well as online.

Not just an after-school activity, YHEC is a hunter’s training camp.

In recognition of their efforts, the NRA Hunters’ Leadership Forum (HLF) honored the founders of Cabela's with its inaugural NRA Distinguished Hunters Leadership Award at the HLF’s National Luncheon held during the NRA Annual Meetings and Exhibits in Nashville on April 10.

Meet Hunters' Leadership Forum member Dr. Arnold W. Goldschlager.

The Dallas Safari Club's biannual Youth S.A.F.E.T.Y. Extravaganza and NRA's Youth Hunter Education Challenge teach safety first as they bring new shooters and hunters into the fold.