RE: NYS bow hunting license
Personally if you can not spend 12 hours once for gun and 12 hours once for archery one time in your life to pursue this sport I really have no desire to be in the woods with you or near you.
Does everyone need all of it? No, some people have parents and family that have trained them for years.Some people have a whole lot of common sense and a whole lot of people have less than some common sense. But, I am sure you will certainly learn a couple things in the course and if you are so advanced consider it volunteer work and offer to help out the instructor or bring a youngster with you to help. You would be doing more for the sport that way.
If it keeps any of the yahoos that make us look bad out of the woods I am all for it. And I do not think taking the course has hurt a person yet!!
I hope you change your mind and take it.