You're required to have taken an archery course with a shooting proficiency module to it in order to hunt any special archery seasons up here. You can hunt during any regular (rifle) season with a bow but for the increased opportiunities of the special season you have to have the certification. Doesn't make much sense to me but there it is... I think there should be certification/education for it all. You've got nothing to loose, and you might even gain something.