If hes that blatant about it he'll get caught. Show up with a deer at a butcher in march and he'll be asking some questions.
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If hes that blatant about it he'll get caught. Show up with a deer at a butcher in march and he'll be asking some questions.
I just talked with a guy who did his HSC last weekend.
Exam was open book, but was heavily reliant on using the regulation book to answer questions.
I'm guessing the "new hunter" mentioned was being a clown.
That may have been me. When my son participated in the Heritage Day hunt down at Long Point. Part of the orientation evening was a presentation from a biologist from Long Point Waterfowl that taught the kids how to quickly ID the birds that they may see. After that a local CO who was there the whole evening taught them about the the rules and regs. This guy hunted himself when time permitted and was clearly passionate about the outdoors. It was good for the kids to meet a real live CO, interact with him and see that they are people also.Quote:
Originally Posted by TurkeyRookie
It would be great to have a CO attend the hunter ed courses but I seriously doubt they could justify the expense.
I took the course 10yrs ago in New Liskeard. We had CO's attend one night and also the instructor would go through the regulations booklet. No questions on exam about the regulations. It would be easy enough during the practical for the instructor to ask a couple questions about the regulations. You can't expect someone to memorize all the season in all MWU but simple questions that forced the student to show that he knows how to use and read the regs would work eg. What is the minimum calibre size for moose? When is the archery season for moose in WMU 28? etc. Simple question that the student would be forced to show that he can pick up the regs and use it to find the correct information.
My time as a hunter I have seen countless times of people misreading regulations or not picking up new regulations each year and just go off of what the regs were 5years ago. I like to pick up a couple copies to read up on, one for my house and another for the truck.
i just took the hunter course a few weeks back and our instructor did go over the regs
but its a very short course time wise
so they have to fit a lot of info into a short time
the test is open book ( regs )
but the biggest thing no one has mentioned
is you are allowed 12 wrong answers and its a multiple choice exam
in my class at least 4 people got between 10-12 wrong and got there passing mark
When j took my course we were told to turn to a specific page in the regs.. And the instructor said write these down.. #1 a... 2.. B... Etc...
I remember the regs being referenced but it was due to the bow draw weights.
It is scary if that guy was for real. Hopefully he was just trying to talk and wasn't for real.
I did have a colleague who just git his licence say to me that he wanted to go for grouse last week as he just bought a shotgun. I told him to research a farm and I would go with him for some birds. He told me he has them on his property up north. I told him instead of researching a farm maybe study the regs book.
My instructor has us do a mock hunt with licenses and game seals.
He had an off-duty CO attend and one person per group was 'arrested' for hunting the wrong WMU/season/etc. He also did shot inspection for the waterfowl hunter.
It was a good reinforcement.
Gotta say, I am super happy with the quality of the course offering I took here in Kingston. The instructor was an Ex-Co and had lots of first hand knowledge to share. Even did an "Ask the CO" talk where people can ask all the hard questions that they may not be clear on. Very informative and very well delivered.
Just a thought on the hunter in this threads story, Maybe the guy didn't even have a license and just said he did to avoid being reported? Sadly, there are lots of people out there who still who don't do things by the book or who think the rules don't apply to them.
I'm an instructor in Niagara, and I spend over 1 1/2 hours on the regulation booklet during the 2 day course.
There are around 24 questions on the exam that come directly from the regulations book.
And yes, it is an open book exam for the regulation booklet, since the idea is to teach new hunters that they should ALWAYs be checking the regs if they're not sure of any hunting rule.