Not sure whether I am for or against a bow hunting competency test.

I have a few questions for those who would like one.

What distance do you feel the test should be taken at?

What is a passing score? 60%? 70%?

Most of us here could with very little practice pass a test with todays bows but what about those who use more primitive bows?
Should the test be the same for them?

Lets say for the sake of arguing that you had to hit a 20 yard target at an 85% rate.

Do you really think that this would eliminate people from taking bad shots and wounding deer? Seems to me that this would just eliminate new hunters. Maybe that is what some of us want?

When I first started with a bow I practiced some but not nearly enough to be what I would call compentent with a bow. I could hit a butter dish at 20 yards everytime but couldn't have hit the broadside of a barn standing inside of it past that distance. I just limited my shots to under 20 yards.

Do you really think a test would have prevented me from shooting beyond that if I had wanted to? No,it had to be a personal decision.

I don't disagree with a test but do not know how to make it fair with all people. No one takes a shooting test for guns and there is much more risk in gun hunting than with a bow.




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