I have to take Hunter's education

[MR BILL SHORTY]

[ChristopherO]

If it helps, use this as a sales call.  You are going to be in a room full of hunters or future hunters.  You are a bowyer extraordinaire.  Speak to the other attendees and make them hungry for not only the type of hunting you enjoy but for the type of weapon you build, heck, even your very own professionally made bow.  It will be in your car, won't it, and with other models, too right?

When my brother moved to Colorado he, too, needed to take that state's HS course.  He was so impressed with this older couple who were there.  They owned a large wild game processing plant in Fort Collins and attended every HS course they could because they had new customers to meet at every class.  Guess where my brother took his kill?

[ChuckC]

Mike, they don't know who you, or I or any of us are.  They passed a law that was good.  They said everybody needs to take the course.  Those born before a day they dreamed up at the onset are exempt from the requirement.  Everybody else takes it.  Period.

Why do you think this whole thing is directed at you ?  It is for everybody.  Having hunted for a lifetime doesn't mean you know the basic safety rules they are teaching, and they are basic. Same with driving,concealed carry yadda yadda.  And...

They are not saying you don't know anything, just that you can't show that you already took the course.  That's all.

Hunter safety and hunter orange, taken together, has taken deer / gun hunting from a very dangerous pass time to one that is very safe ( except for the deer).

Just take the course and go enjoy yourself.

ChuckC

[Mike Mecredy]

Thank everyone for explaining all of it to me.  I guess my biggest mistake was as a 12 year old I didn't keep a small business card sized, certificate in a safe place so I could hold onto it for the last dozen times I've moved since then.

[screamin]

Additionally here in Nevada all the big game tags are issued on lottery system, I might not even get a tag. After all that, taking the class and such, who knows if I can even hunt. [/QB]

I'm from Nevada and hunted there for 40 years, 35 with stick and string. If you are a bowhunter, you will draw a tag although some areas might take a few years to draw. I went every year because I would apply for areas with better draw odds. Nv has some of the best mule deer hunting in the west and on any unit, you can kill a stud!

Bull elk will probably take 15 years but cows are a 2 to 4 year deal.

Or, go to Utah and hunt cows and spikes every year. When you apply, they are going to ask for that Hunter Safety cert #, now you'll have it.

[Chain2]

I'm in the same camp as Ferret, use the time to help mentor a young hunter. Plus it's good FaceTime with a group of potential new customers.

[Mike Mecredy]

So, I'm a over halfway through the reading book, and the work book.  Once I finish I will have the classroom time.  

(SSDS)