I've started this thread because we were hi-jacking the I.B.E.P. course notification thread at this address...

http://www.huntingbc.ca/forum/showthread.php?t=17631

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Re: Official IBEP Bowhunting Course in Victoria Feb 2 and 3rd.
As GG said in an earlier post,Core teaches proper gun handling and where you are supposed to shoot deer. Where does the novice bowhunter learn these things? The vast majority on this site would say "Who cares". The legitamate bowhunters care, thats who. As far as loosing the opportunistc bowhunters, that is a good thing. I don't think bowhunting needs or wants the kind of press the one week a year bowhunter gives us. Bow hunting is NOT rifle hunting and some instruction in bowhunting should be mandatory. I don't think even rifle hunters want wounded deer,shot by opportunistic bowhunters, running around in the bush. Mandatory IBEP is a huge step in preventing this.


Onesock - I brought you over to this thread because you were the last one to post about this subject. Hopefully you will follow this thread as well.

The sentence in your statement that is bolded is one that I dispute and dis-believe. I doubt that the vast majority are as uncaring about hunter educations as you seem to think.

Other than that, I agree with everything else that you said.