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How to use this site

Program planning and administration

Finding and selecting the “right” attendees

Participants receive deer hunting instruction

Hunting

  • How to use this site
  • Program planning and administration
    • Using “results chains” and understanding your program's "theory of change"
    • Assessing Participant Needs (Pre-program Assessments)
    • Key concepts of adult learning
    • Understanding the Outdoor Recreation Adoption Model (ORAM)
      • Building confidence and advancing to “Continuation with Support,” and “Continuation without Support”
      • Importance of creating “social support”
      • Past program shortfalls
    • Incorporating "Participant Feedback" and Measuring Success (Pre, Post, and Follow-up Evaluations)
    • Funding
    • Finding partners
    • Staffing
  • Finding and selecting the “right” attendees
    • Understanding Food Motivated New Hunters
    • Understanding Experience Motivated New Hunters
    • Understanding the concerns of new adult hunters and anglers
    • Understanding Millennials
    • Understanding women in the outdoors
    • Lessons from our Research
    • Analysis of 499 Pilot Program Participants
    • Identifying existing networks
    • Screening your applicants
  • Participants receive deer hunting instruction
    • Developing your syllabus
    • Hunter Education
    • Regulations
    • Equipment and Clothing
    • Selecting Firearms, Crossbows, Muzzleloaders or Conventional Archery Equipment
      • Firearm Resouces
        • Safe firearm handling principles and practices
        • Shooting range practice (firearms)
          • Pre-range classroom orientation
          • Equipment and Supplies
          • Shooting instruction
          • Vital areas of a deer
      • Muzzleloading Resources
      • Archery Resources
      • Crossbow Resources
    • Whitetail Deer Biology
      • Preferred Habitat
      • Fall Feeding Habits
      • Breeding Behavior
      • Senses
      • Escape Behavior
      • Agency management plans and objectives
        • Role of hunters and hunting
    • Scouting for deer
      • Tracks and scat
      • Scrapes and rubs
      • Trails
      • Terrain/habitat
      • Forest “edges”
      • Remote Scouting
        • Navigation off trail
    • Safety principles and practices
    • Hunting strategies, techniques, and methods
      • Stand hunting (recommended technique)
      • Ground blinds
      • Shooting lanes, estimating distance
      • Site selection, terrain and habitat preferences
      • Scent control
      • Wind direction
      • Clothing
      • Other hunting strategies
    • Shot selection
      • Vital areas of a deer
      • How a broadhead kills
      • How a bullet kills
    • Field retrieval, handling and care of harvested game
      • After the shot
      • Blood trailing
      • Tagging/checking requirements
      • Field dressing/ gutting
      • Getting carcass out of the woods
      • Carcass disposal
        • Chronic wasting disease (CWD)
      • Cooling the carcass/ ageing
    • Butchering and preservation techniques (lecture session)
      • Freezing/Marking
      • Cooking Venison
    • Participants go deer hunting
      • Special seasons
      • Licensing
      • Logistic considerations
      • Accessing hunting land
      • Equipment considerations
      • Insurance considerations
      • Overnight / “deer camp” considerations
    • Program identitifies "next steps" for participants
      • Books on Deer Hunting
    • "Participant Feedback" and Measuring Success (Post-Training Evaluations)
    • Participants continue to deer hunt (Post-Season Feedback)
  • How to use these modules
  • Introduction
  • What's in a name? or, a term?
  • Who is this site for?
  • Acknowledgements