The course I took only had about 15 guys in it, I don' t really consider that large. And as for the lack of instructors, I have had many game commission officials tell me to my face that is one major reason for bowhunter education courses not being mandatory. And the regular hunter safety course just briefly covers bowhunting. In fact in my class we had a regular hunter education instructor who was taking the bowhunter education class to be better able to teach that part in the regular hunters ed class. And the majority of the hunter ed classes here in PA are held at VFW' s, Legions, schools and mostly sportsmans clubs. I remember many moons ago when I took mine that it was at the local VFW.