The whitetail deer hunter in most states needs to pass a hunter education program and or other related programs offered by the state. These programs educate hunters about firearm safety, hunting ethics and responsibilities, safety skills, survival skills, map and compass reading, and wildlife ways.
Some states and Canadian provinces also require a bow hunter certification course be completed for archery deer hunting. This certification is required before a whitetail deer hunter can hunt with archery equipment and or archery products. Many states also offer hunter educating clinics concerning specific game that a hunter may want to hunt; such as deer, moose, bear, turkey and waterfowl.
Experienced whitetail deer hunters need to help our young and upcoming deer hunters. We need to take every opportunity possible to introduce and mentor young people (below is my great nephew Zack after harvesting his deer with bow and arrow in November of 2006) in the safe sport of deer hunting.
Remember your first hunting experience and try to improve on it with a young new deer hunter, boy or girl. We need to introduce more women (The above photo is of my great niece Emma with her first deer harvested in November of 2007) into the sport of deer hunting and work to make hunting experience safe, fun, comfortable, and enjoyable. For a new young hunter's first experience; do not bring a new young hunter into the woods, in the cold dark of night (to them it is still night out), drop them off at a remote stand site, and tell them "sit here, don't move, and I'll be back after it gets dark tonight". If that young new deer hunter does not see or shot their first deer that day; we may have lost them for as deer hunter's forever. Keep it enjoyable and comfortable for new youth hunter's. Stay with them and don't allow this new deer hunter to get bored. Even if it means leaving a great stand site for a while. Get down from your stand site and teach this new hunter something; how to read deer sign, trails, droppings, rubs, scrapes, mock scrapes, bedding areas, food sources, and so on. Keep it interesting, they will then have a lifetime of hunting activities to get bored, cold and disappointed.
A whitetail deer hunter's education doesn't stop there. We can all learn a new thing or two about hunting deer. As whitetail deer hunter's, we make mistakes while hunting. If we don't pay attention to the wind, we may see the sign; a whitetail's flag (tail) waving good-by. Let's face it, to a trophy deer - we stink! If we, as a whitetail deer hunter, make noise that is un-natural to a trophy deer, what happens? That's right, there's your sign! A deer hunter may cross an open field because it's easier to walk across it then to sneak around it quietly. Now, if a big buck is bedded on the opposite field edge and spots you, what happens? That's right, there's your sign again. You got busted, and I guarantee you that trophy deer has just been hunter educated. And you know what, the older the deer, the longer he will remember that experience.
No one whitetail deer hunter knows everything about whitetail deer hunting or should think they do. A hunters education never ends. We need to keep an open mind and learn from each other and learn from our mistakes. Good luck deer hunting.
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