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While I hate to admit it because of the potential feedback, I don’t watch a lot of hunting-television. Every now and then I’ll catch a show or if one of my friends has a program on I will tune in, but generally I am not well versed on “who’s who” in the television hunting world.

Perhaps it’s because of this that my experience at the Eastern Sports and Outdoors Show in Harrisburg, Pa., last year was so memorable.

I arrived at the show a few days after it opened. We were set up with the Benoit family and to the left of us a line of people had formed moments after the doors opened. Not being quite sure why, I asked one of them what they were waiting for. “Tiffany’s autograph” was the answer. 

Over the next 10 days I watched thousands of people go through that line. From 9 in the morning to 7 at night there was always a steady stream. It took a few days, however, before the really interesting part of the situation became apparent.

“Look at the average age of the people in the line,” Bob Howe of Pine Grove Lodge pointed out to me. “Everybody always asks where the ‘kids’ are in hunting … I think we have found them.”

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