BC hunting license test need to knows

mathil said:
I challenged it this year, piece of cake.

Be familiar with the current synopsis so you don't spend hours trying to find where it tells you it's ok to hunt bobcat with rimfire, exact dimensions of what's considered a tine, etc etc.

Know your safety (apparently they don't want you shooting from a vehicle for safety reasons, not for fair chase rules... BS, people shoot out of cars and moving helicopters all the time in other countries), and study up on your birds. They ask stuff like which grouse is most common in bc, what gallinaceous bird looks like what, yadda yadda.

Some questions are poorly phrased, like "what are ethics" with a choice between them being societally accepted or personal limitations... It's really both, but apparently ethics are a persons own restrictions on themselves, not societies agreed upon bounds.

Just challenge the bugger for 10$, and do it the next day if you fail. The course really doesn't teach much about how to actually hunt, just the safety and legal stuff.
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Thanks that is really helpful. I am going to read it again one more time and re read the birds then challenge it.
 
It's very comforting to know there will be a hunter in the woods who has made every effort to learn as little as possible to qualify.
 
Most of the instructors stress the critical areas of study required to pass.
My grandson took the course as an 11 years old and said the questions on ducks was the most difficult.
That is one area best learned with experience in the field.
It would be a safe bet that most hunters would fail if they were not bird hunters and had not studied before hand.
 
I killed that test when I was about 14 and I liked going hunting with my dad but birds and bullets were a distant second interest to T&A. Just read the book. The birds and firearms practical would be the trickiest parts if you're new to either but it was easy to pass.
 
rral22 said:
It's very comforting to know there will be a hunter in the woods who has made every effort to learn as little as possible to qualify.
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If you've taken the CFSC or the CORE course you know those certifications are in no way a retard filter, nor a competence filter. True excellence comes from personal commitment to a area of discipline, but unfortunately our culture now "teaches for the test" and forgets about actual applicable knowledge.

If a person has a PAL and challenges the CORE (which I assume is the most common scenario) then they know the safety rules already, and should be safe with a firearm.

The CORE students I've polled in BC seem to have all said little was covered regarding the mechanics of hunting, and most of the time was spent on the PR side of hunting. They teach for the test, and gloss over the very good information contained in the book. The book itself is a great resource covering conservation, regulations and species identification. Any person familiar with self study can easily glean all the knowledge they need from it.

Basically, pay 200$ more if you want to sit in a room and have someone (who often isn't really a hunter, just a certified instructor) walk you through a book. Pay the 35$ for the book alone if you're capable of self study, and you'll probably get more out of it.
 
It amazes me that we pass tests with only a percentage of correct answers. We should be required to get 100% and a single mistake should be a fail. I passed my core on the first try but bearly. I didn't study birds cause I'm not interested in them at the moment, yet I got my licence and legally can hunt them. So I can't tell a grouse from a turkey...no big deal, but what about someone answering a bunch of gun sfety and handling questions wrong, as long as they get the rest rite they can hunt. Scarry!!!
 
v-king said:
It amazes me that we pass tests with only a percentage of correct answers. We should be required to get 100% and a single mistake should be a fail. I passed my core on the first try but bearly. I didn't study birds cause I'm not interested in them at the moment, yet I got my licence and legally can hunt them. So I can't tell a grouse from a turkey...no big deal, but what about someone answering a bunch of gun sfety and handling questions wrong, as long as they get the rest rite they can hunt. Scarry!!!
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No different that a drivers test is it? Lots of awful drivers out there that passed their tests, most get better with time and real life experience. As mentioned above "True excellence comes from personal commitment ..", part of the C.O.R.E. course is teaching that, the understanding that you only get the basics here, this is just the START of your learning.
 
TPK said:
No different that a drivers test is it? Lots of awful drivers out there that passed their tests, most get better with time and real life experience. As mentioned above "True excellence comes from personal commitment ..", part of the C.O.R.E. course is teaching that, the understanding that you only get the basics here, this is just the START of your learning.
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Good point.
 
Wow - you BC guys have it rough. In Alberta 'passing the course' is as easy as clicking a box on a webform!
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All that you need to do, is lie, and you are good to go. Perhaps that is why they are changing the system in 2014.
 
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