Question for Bowhunter Education Instructors

[tim roberts]

Got a project that I am working on, and I could use some information from Bowhunter Ed. Instructors.  What I need is, do any of you that teach, have you seen in any of the classes that you have taught, behavior changed, in specific or dramatic ways, and if so, would you be willing to share the stories?
Thank you,

[GreenJeans]

Tim,
I see opinions, behavior, and attitudes change all the time in not only the Bowhunter Ed courses but the Hunter Ed courses as well. Knowledge is a wonderful thing. That is one of the pleasures of teaching the courses is all the new things I learn from the class participation. I also have plenty of stories that ended positive in work mode when handling paperwork across the hood of truck. Feel free to pm if you like.

[JAG]

Tim, I have had some students come to take the IBEP Course, just because they had to have the card to hunt in a state that required it.  Some of these "students" have stated at the start that they have been bowhunting for X number of years and know how to bowhunt, "I'm just here to get a card"!  Coolest thing is most of the time, after the course these "students" come by or e-mail me, saying just how much they really learned!  Yes I've seen the change, first hand.
I like the ones that know it all.  They're usually the ones that learn the most.
I recently went to a Treestand Saftey Instructors Course.  Would you beleive that some of the Instructors were the same way?  After the course, We all admitted, that we learned alot!
So it goes for the Instructors, too!
Take care,  JAG/Johnny

[Bowwild]

The last group I taught were all experienced bowhunters, one from Africa.  Only two of them were taking the course in order to get their card to hunt.  They all simply wanted to take the course to see what they could learn. The age spread was 23 - 55. They learned a bit from each other as well as from the course material.  The fellow from Africa is a PH who runs three concessions. He is trying to relate better to his bowhunting clients.

The group before that one included two teenagers and some adults who work in the archery industry who needed their cards.  The guys in the audience had much more diverse (read--exotic) bowhunting experience than I ever will.

[elk nailer]

Had a dad of a ten yr. old student who happend to be a marine tell me during pre registration that he found it hard to believe that we could teach his son anything that he hadn't already taught him. By the end of the class he came up to me and said he had no idea of the amount of info that the kids get now a days. It was gratafying.

[tim roberts]

These are great!  specific stories would be great, and can I have your permission to print them off to use in a presentation in a few months?
Thanks,

[ChuckC]

My cadre was early in the presentation of treestand safety as a vital aspect of bowhunter education.  We delivered what I thought was one of the best "educational" courses about treestand use and safety around.  Heavy on the demonstration and education and short on the war stories.

One of the things we did to cap off each class was a demonstration.  I came out of the treestand wearing a normal (at that time) strap type belt, around my waist.  A partner came out of the tree after that wearing a full body harness.  

In both cases the treestand was situated maybe 6 feet high so that I could be "saved" by the crew if I couldn't get myself turned around and on the steps or platform.  

About 50% of the time I had to be saved.

To have my face turn beet red and my eyes bulge out 20 feet away from the students, right in front of their eyes, while hanging nearly inverted, bouncing off the tree, opened up a huge discussion and hopefully changed a lot of minds as to what is really helping you and how to use it.  

I was told that SoP sold out of harnesses during the next Deer and Turkey Expo after that went on TV as a pre-deer season presentation by the news.

We finally had a good quality video made so I didn't have to do it any more and the rest is history.

ChuckC

[tim roberts]

ttt

[tim roberts]

Any others???
Thanks!!!