HUNTER EDUCATION, 1: Have plans to hunt this season? 
Then, you may wish to brush up on your firearm 
knowledge ... we explain how on Passport to Texas

This is Passport to Texas

If you're a hunter, or considering becoming one, 
completion of a hunter education course is a must.

13 -- Overall, what a person learns in Hunter Education is the 
safe, knowledgeable, responsible habits that hunters and 
shooting sports participants would need to responsibly handle a 
firearm from the home to the field and back again.

Steve Hall oversees hunter education at Parks & Wildlife.

39 -- The centerpiece for hunter education is the ten 
commandments of firearm safety. And those apply whether 
you're handling them around the gun safe at home, how to 
store them properly, transport them properly. And then when 
you're in the field, it's called hunter safety. For a reason. 
There's other kinds of things that come into play when you're in 
the field like where the other hunters are at, what kind of 
shooting you're doing; do you know beyond the line of fire of a 
shot? Is it on a hillside that you're shooting and you don't know 
what's ion the other side? So there are lots of things that come 
into play. And then they all kind of center around knowing your 
firearm, knowing how to handle it safely, but also knowing the 
capability of those firearms as well.

Hunter education classes take place year round across 
the state. Find hunter education classes near you, or take 
it online, when you log onto the TPW website.

The Wildlife and sport fish restoration program supports 
our series.

For Texas Parks and Wildlife ... I'm Cecilia Nasti.











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