ORIGINAL: PA Hardwoods
ORIGINAL: BobCo19-65
LOL.
Aside from what I have commented on before.
I would say that having bowhunting education courses mandatory could only help the perception of how non-hunting hunters (not PETA, they are a different bunch) perceive hunters. Which is important IMO.
A- Freaking Men Bob. That is the point I was trying to get across earlier. The large part of the course is teaching us ethics and how to increase our chances of getting the non-hunting public to side with us as hunters. Only a small part of it is how to handle the bow safely. 98% of the classes I teach are hunters with atleast 20+ years of hunting experience and like I said before not one has said the course was useless. In fact I would love to be able to show you a video of the students trying to place the vitals of a deer in the proper place on the outline of a deer. You'd be amazed at the number of people that honestly don't have a clue where the liver, heart and lungs location is in a deer.
PA, agreed on how far these courses have come in their depth. I don't know how old you are, but the classes nowaday are nothing like the classes back in the 70's. Back then, pure safety, don't hurt nobody.