In Iowa the hunter safety course is only pass no fail. If you attend all the hours you pass.

Why do we stop at 20 yards is what I want to know? I bet (don't know for sure) that more deer are wounded and lost at 20 yards than at 40 or 50!!

My logic is this most people are unable to hit a deer at that distance without alot of practice. Most of the posts about wounding animals are at distances under 30 yards.

Why not make the tests harder so we can regulate the bowhunters out there even more. If you are a true bowhunter and can shoot out to 30 yards (which is the distance I have heard most bowhunters use, as well as my own set limit) then you should be able to with alittle more practice shoot a pie time at 40 yards. This is the argument you would hear in a very short time if there was a test. Who would be making this argument? Someone other than the hunters on this forum.

I am not afraid of the test if it could be agreed upon that it would be at 20 yards 6 for 6 in a pie tin then go for it. I don't think that it would stay at those standards. If you can't regulate where the regulations are going to end up then don't start regulating anything.

I do like the idea of a mandatory bow course in eithical hunting and tracking, much like the hunter safety course. We have a small section of it in our hunter safety course and it would be easy to insert it into all courses with little effort and little extra money.

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