Hunter safety education "class" tonight....

[UncleDave]

Oh, and the range time, they discovered my child should probably be shooting Left Handed and Left Eye dominant. Very forceful that he change now and shoot now left handed after many years of shooting right/right. He did shoot well left handed, but I'm a little peeved they forced him to do this "NOW" not some other time.

I've also decided the instructors are obviously teaching because they feel some POWER in doing it. Our instructor was never wrong, any correct answer given to their question was corrected so they looked "more right".

I feel for your son. I am cross dominate too. Fortunately I am also ambidextrous. Rifles with scope I shoot lefty most of the time. Open sights I try to shoot with both eyes open, but still cock my head over a bit. With a bit of practice he will shoot well with either hand. When I carry my primary weapon it right hand, just because I am a faster draw with my right. I guess I need to drill more with my left.

[StagLefty]

One of the best safety lines I ever heard was from the TC that taught my Instructor classes: "when it comes to safety you don't have the right to remain silent"

[HBARleatherneck]

my hunters safety class was great. It was at the Sports Castle downtown. it was 3 nights I think and then one day of shooting. we learned fire making, survival, hunting laws, game Id, etc. DOW officers were the instructors then. 1982. Then we went to the Arvada rifle and pistol club at 58th and wadsworth and shot a brick of ammo each. I had been shooting for years at that point and the instructor also caught that I was left eye dominant. I switched and it helped tremendously.

[pumpgun]

I was a master hunter safety instructor until I quit teaching last year and we would never had done or said the things fud did in your class. You need to report him to the hunter ed office at CDOW.

tom

[spleify]

Wow that is horrible, I would definitely contact someone and let them know of these instructors, they should NOT be instructing people if that is the info they are discussing

[Mazin]

Unfortunatly a lot of instructors out there teach stuff that they don't know themselves. I would have asked for my money back.

[Snowman78]

I took mine ten years ago becuse when I moved here I could not find my old hunting licenses from the state where I came from. So instead of trying to get gradfathered I just took a class. Well worth the money I spent on it. It was given at Sportsmans Warehouse and the guys were good. I learned alot about Colorado hunting...

+1 I took mine about 2 years ago at Sportsmans Warehouse in Thornton and it was great!

[spqrzilla]

Some of the comments related by the OP are nonsense and bad instruction and should be reported to the CPW. Mark Cousins runs the program at CPW. The comment about self-defense firearm choices marks a rather stupid instructor both from the advice and that it isn't part of Hunter Education material.

However, some of the material the OP argued about is what we are supposed to teach, especially the method of handing off firearms to another.

[gnihcraes]

thanks for the encouragement guys on the left eye right eye thing, I just wasn't a fan of them pushing it right now during hunters ed. Seemed odd.

[sniper7]

Damn, that is horrible. Definitely report that shit. Why in the fuck would someone who has lots of tickets against them be able to teach a hunter safety class is beyond me.