Badger Girl I do have to say all of the general hunter's ed courses I have been too were severly lacking when it comes to bowhunting. (In fact we had a regular Hunter ed instructor come to our class because he knew nothing about Bowhunting or archery and had been teaching it in the hunters ed class.) [:@]It taught you the very BARE minimum if that. It was basically, this is and arrow, this is a bow, and treat them like a gun when handling them and thats about it. So IMHO some sort of more extensive bow ed is necessary.