ORIGINAL: GMMAT

I'd be more in favor of a required bowhunters' education course. During the course...... the importance of proficiency could be drilled into the students heads.

That's about as far as I'd go.

Stick a man on the ground and tell him to hit a plate @ 20 yds??? OK...I don't think that's going to weed out many people. Put him in a classroom of his peers.....and explain to him why we don't take quartering-to shots at any distance (etc..., etc..., etc...).....and you'll have educated him.

I'd rather educate him and take my chances he'll learn the importance of becoming "proficient".