Originally Posted By: tripod3I get the spirit of the post but wish many of them would stay home til they've passed a common sense class.
I can't begin to count the times that newbies armed with this much info or less have ruined my stands directly.
This could take days of typing to replay every instance and every public expense they have cost people.
If it were just that simple!
I would agree with the general sentiment, but you still have to be careful. I teach hunters ed and for the most part I work with a great group of guys. But every so often we get a hunters ed instructor who has no business teaching anyone anything. But they get that patch and they stand up in front of the class spouting THEIR opinions when they have no basis to do so. In one class we had a guy telling the class that firing an arrow within 1/4 mile of a building was the same as the law stating that discharging a FIREARM within 1/4 mile was illegal. The last time I checked arrows were not propelled by expanding gases of burning propellant and were not classified as a firearm. He then went on to claim that ANYTHING with a floor and walls was considered a building and that you could be cited for discharging your bow near a travel trailer. The last time I checked you don't license a house and it doesn't move.
I would prefer if people got some rudimentary training but that still has to be good training. Just doing an online hunter ed class is not the same as getting instruction from a competent, trained instructor.
