DNRs hunter safety courses to go online?

[S.B.]

I've been invited to Mattoon this Thursday(8/6/2009) to attend the training session for the new online hunters safety course that IDNR is instituteing. Anyone else been to one of these yet?
Don't know how many are aware but, soon all Illinois bowhunters will have to be certified to hunt with a bow? Volenteer master instructors got trained a couple years back.
Steve

[Glanceblamm]

No Sir, What is the purpose of a training session for an online course?.
Respectfully, Randy

[S.B.]

Students will still have to have some classroom training and take the test? Cheaper for the state with no materials for online course.
Update: I ask this question at the training session and was told: "It's just another way a young person can get their Hunter Safety Course under their belt."
Steve

[Glanceblamm]

Edit and last post provided the needed clarification, Thanks!

Been thinking bout gittin one of them bow's since 85' or so. Had some reservations (read disgust) in the early years with the Bow but realize that this was a matter of the lack of responsibility & disipline of the shooters instead of the bow being an inadequate weapon.

[GRIMJIM]

Do you have any more info on the bow hunting class? Is there a born before date? Or is everyone required.

[S.B.]

I'm only a volenteer instructor, so I truely don't know Jim. Get in touch with IDNR but this is a future thing.
Steve

[S.B.]

At the meeting on 8/6/2009 I learned that Illinois no longer thinks it will require bowhunters to be certified? Maybe, budget cuts to DNR? I was told that if an Illinois bow hunter wants to hunt, in say Idaho, he must complete the online course and be certified. Hope this is clearer than the mud it appears to be? Sorry for the confusion.
Steve

[JBlk]

About the only reason that the state places additional conditions on any form of hunting, trapping or ect is another form of income for them.

[Lon371]

 I really dont understand how they can say anyone is certified doing it over the internet. Who is to say somone else didnt take the class for them? Just like the college classes that are done online.

Lonny

[S.B.]

I really dont understand how they can say anyone is certified doing it over the internet. Who is to say somone else didnt take the class for them? Just like the college classes that are done online.

Lonny

They still have to come to a Hunter Safety Course and take the same test as everyone else. Anyone of the several Instructors can judge them unfit to hunt(if they think they've cheated online). So, you could have dad or uncle Harry do your work online but, you'll still be caught at the testing.
Steve

[Lon371]

 Thats a good idea then. I didnt realize that or overlooked it. Thanks

Lonny