All first-time hunting license buyers, except apprentice license buyers, must successfully complete a hunter education course before purchasing a hunting license. The hunting course is designed to instill a code of ethics and responsibility, as well as provide instruction on guns and how they work, types of ammunition, gun handling, field care of game, wildlife identification, wildlife management, hunting regulations, and other topics. Statistics show that hunter education has helped reduce the number of hunting related injuries and incidents.
The trapper education course, taken after successful completion of a hunter education course, covers trap set making, trapping equipment, pelt preparation, furbearer life history, identification, and management. These courses provide an opportunity for adults to introduce a young person to hunting and trapping and to share the excitement that goes with it.
Anyone applying for a hunting license, except an apprentice license, is required to successfully complete a hunter education course. Applicants must do one of the following:
Present a previously held hunting license.
Present evidence of having successfully completed a hunter education course (from any state).
Swear he or she is 21 years of age or older and previously held a legal hunting license (from any state).
And copied form the Ohio website. So this course is acceptable. I believe it took about twelve hours for the person I know that did this one to complete it. It includes videos and things like that. Hope this helps out.
-Jake