Bowhunting Equipment

Bowhunter Education Standards - IHEA


All bowhunting equipment requires special knowledge, skills, and preparation for effective use.Objectives: (Students will be able to) Identify the basic parts and features of at least three basic items of archery equipment used for bowhunting. Best angles are broadside and quartering away. Compound bows have eccentric wheels or cams connected to the limbs, cables, and string, and provide a reduction in the force required to hold the string back at full draw.) List three ways bowhunting equipment must be properly matched. Crossbows use a stock as a cocking and shooting platform. Distance judging becomes more critical at longer ranges.) Understand the causes, prevention, symptoms and field treatments of hypothermia and heat exhaustion and two factors, which cause each. First learn basic archery by shooting at spot targets; then practice using targets without aiming spots, to simulate aiming at game. Follow blood & tracks, marking trail.) Describe ways of reading blood and to continue a search once a blood trail is lost. Game deserves respect and humane treatment, all wildlife, their habit and the environment must be used wisely and supported.) Understand that there are many more non-hunters than hunters, and list three reasons nonhunters disapprove of hunting, and why. Harnesses should provide support without injury or suffocation. Haul lines must always be used to raise and lower bows and other equipment.) Identify the location of the vital organs of various game animals and explain why this area should be the bowhunter's only target. Hits here usually produce a blood trail, and offer the greatest margin for error in shot placement.) Understand how shot angle affects the bowhunter's ability to make an effective shot. If trail is lost, use “increasing L� search pattern, pacing of a short distance, turn right and pace off same distance. Keep turning right, increasing length of line after every pair of lines.) Follow a simulated blood trail in a field or simulated field demonstration. Knowledge of and disapproval of hunters and hunting are often based on actions of irresponsible hunters, and stories of irresponsible hunters repeated by hunters and non-hunters alike.) List three actions hunters can demonstrate to present a positive public image. Knowledge of field dressing and carcass handling is required to make efficient use of the animal and avoid waste.Objectives: (Students will be able to) Understand that game recovery is often difficult requiring careful and diligent tracking. Knowledge of how to deal with the possible hazards of hunting is essential for survival, and for helping others.Objectives: (Students will be able to) Explain how to practice for bowhunting. Look for arrow, hair, and blood, at hit location and the place where the animal was last seen. Mark shooter location, hit location, place where animal last seen. Practice in hunting conditions to duplicate terrain, weather, body positions, using stands, blinds, etc. Recurve and long bows have a pair of simple limbs connected by a string, and the force required to pull the string increases with the distance pulled. Safe, responsible and legal behavior helps protect resources, people and property.Objectives: (In-group activities, or individually, as appropriate, students will be able to) List at least five words describing a responsible bowhunter. Search quietly, watching for deer, and searching for tracks and other sign, as well as blood. Self respect, and others have rights and feelings that must be considered. Sit down, Think, Observe, and Plan.If it is not wise to walk out, make provisions for signaling, water, fire, shelter.)GOAL 6 - Game Recovery. Such standards will be particularly useful in reciprocity decisions where separate bowhunter education courses are required as licensing requirements. The standards were developed by a committee of hunter education professionals concerned with reciprocity among jurisdictions, bowhunter recruitment, and with methods and materials for bowhunter education. These objectives are best met through hands on activities and live demonstrations, as well as classroom activities. Vital area is guarded by large bones from some angles, especially from the front and extreme rear angles. WILDLIFE & ENVIRONMENT: Game hunted, other wildlife, the environment.