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Local Youth Graduate Hunter Education Course

Fifteen students and one adult successfully completed this year's class by passing both a written test and a practical field exam. Students participated in 12 hours of classroom learning over two Fridays and a Saturday, where they learned the safe and proper handling of firearms, including loading and unloading, crossing a fence while carrying a firearm, and the safe loading of a firearm into a vehicle. Students also learned various hunting skills and techniques, ethics, survival skills, and wildlife management.

In the field trial, students went on a realistic mock hunt just outside of town, w...

 

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