Thirty-Eight Hunters Graduate from Certified Hunter Safety Course
Thirty-eight hunters graduated from the Wakulla County Sheriff’s Office Certified Hunter Safety Course on August 23, 2008. Florida Law requires anyone born on or after June 01, 1975 to pass a state approved hunter safety course before purchasing a Florida Hunting License. The course was held at the First Baptist Church of Crawfordville.
Sheriff David Harvey praised volunteer instructors: Fred Heydenreich, Dale Evans and Dan Brickerstaff for their willingness to share their time and expertise with the students.
The next course dates are on September 9, 11, 16, 18 and 20th. The courses will be held at the 4-H Extension Office in Crawfordville, Florida. Due to limited space, pre-registration is required and students must attend all five classes. To pre-register, go to myFWC.com and follow the instructions for registering for the Hunter/Safety Course. The classes will be taught at the 4-H Extension Office from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., the 9th through the 20th of September. The last class will be held at the Wakulla County Sheriff’s Office Training Center range in Otter Creek.
The course is twelve hours long and is followed by a range day when students will shoot rifles, shotguns, and bows. Black Powder guns are demonstrated and students will be able to shoot the black powder guns if they wish. The classroom instruction is intended to introduce the students to many aspects of hunting in Florida. Subjects such as hunting safety, firearms and ammunition nomenclature and safe firearms handling help insure a safe hunting experience.
Wildlife identification and management help students know their quarry and understand the problems facing Florida’s wildlife population. The subjects help hunters with hunting ethics, although something may be legal to shoot, it may not be the ethical thing to do. Over one-third of a million people have taken the courses in Florida over the past 35 years. Due in part to this course and other programs such as the 4-H shooting programs and courses offered by the NRA and others, hunting accidents and home firearm accidents are at the lowest number in history, even though there are more guns in the hands of citizens more than ever.
This article originally published on August 27, 2008.
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Thirty-eight hunters graduated from the Wakulla County Sheriff’s Office Certified Hunter Safety Course on August 23, 2008. Florida Law requires anyone born on or after June 01, 1975 to pass a state approved hunter safety course before purchasing a Florida Hunting License. The course was held at the First Baptist Church of Crawfordville.
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