who all has tooken there hunter education course
07-08-2008, 12:06 PM
#33
Typical Buck
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: North Central Idaho
Posts: 539
RE: who all has tooken there hunter education course
Took course in 87'. It is mandatory in Idaho if you are born after Jan. 1st 1975. I wish they would turn it into a school class so all kids went through it, for the gun saftey aspect even if they don't plan to hunt. Our kids are forced to sit through bunny hugger classes with some of their bunny hugger teachers, so maybe taking hunters saftey would even out the propoganda feed to our kids.
07-08-2008, 04:12 PM
#35
Fork Horn
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: pa soon to be greenup county ky
Posts: 315
RE: who all has tooken there hunter education course
i took mine got one question wrong
i enjoyed it actually. i would do it again but just dont want to take the time when i took it back then it was a two day course here in pa. i had to take it to get my license or so i thought it seems noone asks for anything like that anymore..... makes me feel safe.
i enjoyed it actually. i would do it again but just dont want to take the time when i took it back then it was a two day course here in pa. i had to take it to get my license or so i thought it seems noone asks for anything like that anymore..... makes me feel safe.
07-08-2008, 08:56 PM
#37
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: WY
Posts: 2,056
RE: who all has tooken there hunter education course
Took mine when I was 11 in Colorado. In Wyoming I don't need it because I'm "grandfathered". However, I need WY Hunter Safety to teach Hunter Safety here, so I guess I'm taking it again this fall?
07-09-2008, 05:29 AM
#38
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Moravia NY USA
Posts: 2,164
RE: who all has tooken there hunter education course
If one does not have the "time" to take the course, how will they ever have time to become profficient with their equipment and to hunt?
Steve
Steve
07-09-2008, 09:37 AM
#39
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2004
Posts: 1,085
RE: who all has tooken there hunter education course
My first one ( NYS) was tooken in 1962...
My NYS bow course was tooken sometime in the 70's when it became mandatory...
Then in 1998 or thereabouts, I an internet friend of mine, who lives in Ontario, invited me to hunt gobblers there... Ontario requires a separate Turkey Hunting Safety course for all hunters, experienced or not, so I tooken the eight hour course, despite the fact that I had been hunting turkeys since 1965...
Actually it was kinda fun...Of the 200 or so students in the course, I was the only one who had ever killed a turkey, having killed 75 or 80 at that time..I was quite a celebrity...
My NYS bow course was tooken sometime in the 70's when it became mandatory...
Then in 1998 or thereabouts, I an internet friend of mine, who lives in Ontario, invited me to hunt gobblers there... Ontario requires a separate Turkey Hunting Safety course for all hunters, experienced or not, so I tooken the eight hour course, despite the fact that I had been hunting turkeys since 1965...
Actually it was kinda fun...Of the 200 or so students in the course, I was the only one who had ever killed a turkey, having killed 75 or 80 at that time..I was quite a celebrity...
07-09-2008, 10:10 AM
#40
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Chicago, IL
Posts: 1,462
RE: who all has tooken there hunter education course
ORIGINAL: SteveBNy
If one does not have the "time" to take the course, how will they ever have time to become profficient with their equipment and to hunt?
Steve
If one does not have the "time" to take the course, how will they ever have time to become profficient with their equipment and to hunt?
Steve
Also, I don't know who is married with kids (Luckily, I am not
) but my buddy has to use up all of his favors with his wife to get away hunting for a few days. Telling her that he has to take a class for two days over an hour away and take off work would not go over well with her. Im not trying to start fights over this topic, but the course is being taught the same way it was 40 years ago. I just think it needs some changes for the technology we have today.