NZ HUNTER MAGAZINE How To
After two years of development and at least a few more years in the planning, Better Hunting, the GAC's new free-to-use online hunter education and training platform is up and running. We are pretty proud of it and see it as a bit of a game changer in hunter education and training in New Zealand.
Supported through funding from Jobs for Nature and including contributions from 24 other hunting and outdoor sector organisations, Better Hunting provides hunters with free online training on the fundamentals of hunting and hunter safety in New Zealand. It is designed to help both new and experienced hunters learn skills that can assist them to hunt more safely and successfully.
28 individual modules make up the programme and cover important aspects of hunting such as navigation, weather forecasting, outdoors safety, firearms safety and technique,animal management, harvesting mahinga kai and butchery. The modules not only provide educational content but are deliberately developed to be interactive. This means learners need to really engage their brain to perform certain tasks, which of course will help them retain the most important information.
