4 goals of Hunters Education program
What is...
Create Safe, Knowledgeable, responsible, and Involved hunters
Good marksmanship is built on 3 fundamentals.
What is...
1. Proper sight adjustment or patterning
2. Proper shooting technique
3. Practice
Hypothermia
What is...
The body loses heat faster than it can produce it
Aldo Leopold quote
What is...
"Ethical behavior is doing the right thing when no one else is watching - even when doing the wrong thing is legal
FASs
What is...
Fall-Arrest Systems
4 primary hunter safety rules
What is...
1. Muzzle in safe direction
2. Know target and what's beyond
3. Keep safety on until ready to shoot
4. Finger straight until ready to shoot
4 most common shotgun chokes
What is...
1. Full
2. Modified
3. Improved Cylinder
4. Cylinder
Tissue freezes
What is...
Frostbite
Respect Natural Resources
What is...
- Leave the land better than found
- Know and follow game laws and fair chase
- Know your capabilities as a marksman
- Strive for quick clean harvest
- ensure that meat and usable parts aren't wasted
- treat game and non-game animals ethically
- cooperate with conservation agents and report violations
4 basic characteristics to identify animals
What is...
1. Distinctive Markings
2. Sounds
3. Movement
4. Group Behavior
Rule of 3's
What is...
3 seconds without Hope
3 minutes without Oxygen
3 hours without Shelter
3 days without Water
3 weeks without Food
What is...
1. Prone
2. Sitting
3. Standing
4. Kneeling
Core body temperature increases
What is...
Heat Exhaustion
Respect other hunters
What is...
- Follow safe firearm handling practices
- refrain from interfering with another's hunt
- Don't drink alcohol
- Share your knowledge and skills with others
4 Trapping strategies
What is...
1. Bodygrip
2. Cage trap
3. Foothold
4. Cable restraint
5 Survival skills
What is...
Shelter, fire, signal, water, food
Types of handguns
What is...
1. Single-action Revolver
2. Double-action Revolver
3. Semi-auto pistol
Heat Stroke
What is...
Symptoms include dry, hot, and flushed skin and lack of sweat.
Respect Landowners
What is...
- Ask for permission to hunt on land
- Follow their restrictions
- Treat livestock and crops as your own
- Offer to share a part of your harvest with them
- Leave all gates how you found them
- Notify landowner if anything is out of place
- Never enter private land unless you have obtained permission first
Vital organs of game
What is...
Heart and Lungs
5 Stages of Hunter Development
What is...
1. Shooting Stage
2. Limiting out Stage
3. Trophy Stage
4. Method Stage
5. Sportsman Stage
5 Shotgun shooting techniques
What is...
1. Shooting Stance
2. Pointing
3. Shouldering the Shotgun
4. Trigger pull
5. Follow through
What is...
1. Be ready
2. Know your location
3. Prepare for safety
4. Tell others
Respect Non Hunters
What is...
- Transport animals out of sight
- Transport Firearms out of sight
- Don't take graphic photos of kill and talk about it around non-hunters
- Mintain presentable appearance in public
- be respective active citizen in your community
8 Hunting Strategies
What is...
1. Still hunting
2. Stalking
3. Posting
4. Driving
5. Ground blinds
6. Game calling and scents
7. Flushing and dogs
8. Trapping