OK, I pulled back and saw the conversation took fire and I think that Kip Carson probably said it best with: "My personal opinion is that we don’t necessarily need more hunters, we need more allies".
Allies can choose to hunt or not, they might choose to go climbing. Or anything else. But...
I am always amazed to see how good the outdoors is to grow kids. Hunters have to be right up there in terms of understanding the outdoors. Would there be room to push the outdoors to long kids by focusing first on the great adventure of the great outdoors? Then hunting can take over later...