ORIGINAL: virginiashadow
Against...do we have mandatory football education classes for little kids?...and how many football related deaths do we have in this country as compared to bowhunting fatalities? I could go on and on why we should not have it but I think my football example settles it.
I hope that comment was made as a joke
If anything the football analogy proves the opposite. If you don’t practice, you don’t play….
Actually in football, you receive a whole lot more training than if you take one 8 hour bow hunting safety course. Think about it. You have practice every day during football season (even most youth teams practice a couple of times a week) learning from in most cases multiple coaches… Hours upon hours of hands on training really.
If new bow hunters won’t take 8 hours to learn about tree stand safety, proper and ethical shot placement, basic bow safety, blood tracking techniques, etc., then they shouldn’t be allowed to bow hunt.
I’m probably a little partial because I am a certified archery education instructor and I see how much that even many of the new bow hunting adults don’t know…