Hunter Education Requirements are BS!!!

[icatchbadguyz]

I did the same thing...the 2hr. Class course was interesting and fun, def. not a waste of time...you take another short test and get your card that night...I'd rather sit in a 2hr. Class than to get caught hunting without a license by the DNR...them boys don't play...they'll confiscate your firearm and you won't be able to get a license to hunt for a particular amount of time...don't be that guy...

I agree it won't be a waste of time. If I came across like I dont support safety in the woods I didn't mean that. I'm just having trouble finding the 2hr course before I take off next week and do some hunting. Poor planning on my part I guess. I'm going to try and crash a semi-local class this week. Maybe they'll let me in even though I didn't register.
Always hunted legal in Bama even though out of state is crazy expensive. I think I was grandfathered in the HS requirement there due to age. I miss by a couple years in Georgia.

 

[Deleted member 20875]

It's an easy class took mine back in 95 or 96 supposed to go hunting with my friends dad that ended up backing out the morning of I was pissed figured I would find other opportunities to go but hard to find people who want to go in the woods got a lot of yeah but when time came nobody. LOL

 

[Twitch2120]

well.im sorry for the difficulty that you are having scheduling the 32hr class...oh.wait,i just went and looked its not a 32hr class its only 2hrs?
I personally think it should be more than that..you are talking about people buying high powered weapons and spraying the woods with bullets at moving targets!!

because these people are so much safer at the range

 

[givejunkfree]

I agree it won't be a waste of time. If I came across like I dont support safety in the woods I didn't mean that. I'm just having trouble finding the 2hr course before I take off next week and do some hunting. Poor planning on my part I guess. I'm going to try and crash a semi-local class this week. Maybe they'll let me in even though I didn't register.
Always hunted legal in Bama even though out of state is crazy expensive. I think I was grandfathered in the HS requirement there due to age. I miss by a couple years in Georgia.

IF you took an HS course in Bama, it might be good here.

 

[dwilson42]

This is why when they did that I just kept hunting where I was never even took one. My grandfather was my hunters safety course.
But I agree it is an inconvenience.
I was just lucky my parents and grandparents owned alot of land and all I needed to hunt it was a harvest record

 

[DMGun]

In all aspects of life, never assume that everyone knows something just because you do...

The Hunter Safety program is a reasonable effort to touch on safety before you get a license in my opinion... It may save some lives...

If you are older, they just write ATTEST in the date block and you are grandfathered in...

 

[dwilson42]

In all aspects of life, never assume that everyone knows something just because you do...

The Hunter Safety program is a reasonable effort to touch on safety before you get a license in my opinion... It may save some lives...

If you are older, they just write ATTEST in the date block and you are grandfathered in...

I agree to an extent.
See I was a year below the cutoff for grandfathered in deal so I got screwed.
Don't get me wrong my son will have one but its just they should implemented it to be done in childhood not late teens. which its balancing out now but still pissed me off at the time.
But as a man who had a cousin killed in a hunting accident there is some dumbasses out there that need a HSC.
(In my cousins case it wouldn't of helped though bow season and a dumbass was in the woods with buckshot)

 

[7pt62THOR]

Got a computer disc put out by the DNR at the local library. My 12 year old listened to it at his own pace and we went back to the library to take the test. He passed with flying colors!

 

[Lineman73]

I have three hunter safety cards. The first I got in Florida back in 1985. Back then the class was four two hour class room sessions and then a 6 hour field exercise trip to the WD Ranch for rifle and bow safety certification, compass course training and survival skills. I enjoyed it and learned a hell of a lot. I took the course again when I moved to Georgia, just to have a Georgia card. The course was all classroom and much shorter. Then when my son was 13 I took the class again with him. This time the class was about 3-4 hours and all they taught was the answers to the final test. I was not impressed. Thankfully, I had passed on to my son what I had learned in that first course I took in Florida and everything else I have learned over the years. That puts very heavy emphasis on safety, woodsmanship, survival and hunting ethics!!!

The Georgia course should be longer, more in depth and not just teaching the answers to the test. You can never have enough safety knowledge.

 

[roundhouse]

What do you do if you can't find yer card?

I remember taking the class in the early 80s