Old Fud
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I just took the Hunter's Training class required in CA to get a hunting license.
It was a 12-hour marathon session filled with lots of good stuff.
The Manual was "Today's Hunter in California", an expensive colorful thorough piece of work that is maintained, updated and reprinted regularly -- it's also available upon request for free at any time. It addresses every aspect of hunting you can think of and provides basic familiarization with each.
I was left with the impression it is heavily sponsored by IHEA (International Hunter Education Association) and the "resource directory" in the back listed 14 other organizations including NRA, National Shooting Sports Foundation, Ducks unlimited.
Most of the material was national/international in flavor, with only 2 pages in the end seeming to focus specifically upon California issues.
Definitely written by pro-hunters. "Facts" presented included the idea that no animal ever became extinct because of having been hunted to death, how to deal with an anti-hunter, how much hunters contribute to conservation work (while others don't). These were spread throughout the book.
With all of that, there were surprises in the course:
1) Hunting is a privilege, not a right.
2) Antagonize the anti's and you deserve to lose that privilege.
3) Thou may not hunt anything, anywhere, without a license from the state permitting you to hunt that item.
4) In CA, no firearms of any kind are permitted during archery season.
5) The book offered a slightly modified version of Cooper's FOUR rules instead of NRA's 3 rules.
6) The idea that a firearm might have some use other than hunting was not a subject hunting people are prepared to talk about.
I came away with the definite feeling that "hunting" and "RKBA" are completely different worlds.
Hmmmm.
Fud
It was a 12-hour marathon session filled with lots of good stuff.
The Manual was "Today's Hunter in California", an expensive colorful thorough piece of work that is maintained, updated and reprinted regularly -- it's also available upon request for free at any time. It addresses every aspect of hunting you can think of and provides basic familiarization with each.
I was left with the impression it is heavily sponsored by IHEA (International Hunter Education Association) and the "resource directory" in the back listed 14 other organizations including NRA, National Shooting Sports Foundation, Ducks unlimited.
Most of the material was national/international in flavor, with only 2 pages in the end seeming to focus specifically upon California issues.
Definitely written by pro-hunters. "Facts" presented included the idea that no animal ever became extinct because of having been hunted to death, how to deal with an anti-hunter, how much hunters contribute to conservation work (while others don't). These were spread throughout the book.
With all of that, there were surprises in the course:
1) Hunting is a privilege, not a right.
2) Antagonize the anti's and you deserve to lose that privilege.
3) Thou may not hunt anything, anywhere, without a license from the state permitting you to hunt that item.
4) In CA, no firearms of any kind are permitted during archery season.
5) The book offered a slightly modified version of Cooper's FOUR rules instead of NRA's 3 rules.
6) The idea that a firearm might have some use other than hunting was not a subject hunting people are prepared to talk about.
I came away with the definite feeling that "hunting" and "RKBA" are completely different worlds.
Hmmmm.
Fud