10/11/2007

While turkey hunting is safe, the National Wild Turkey Federation is making every effort to make a safe sport even safer.

For years, the NWTF has promoted hunter education and safe turkey hunting through its chapters and outreach events. However, the NWTF recently created a wild turkey hunting safety curriculum to help hunter safety instructors promote and teach safe and successful turkey hunting.

The Turkey Hunting Success & Safety curriculum is available as a two-disk, CD-ROM and DVD set to hunter safety instructors, JAKES (Juniors Acquiring Knowledge, Ethics and Sportsmanship) coordinators and others who teach, or want to learn, hunter safety.

"Using the latest technology, this curriculum is a fun way to teach people how to become better and safer hunters," said Rob Keck, NWTF CEO.

The curriculum includes lessons on:

• Firearms
• Getting Ready for the Hunt
• Patterning
• Equipment
• Turkey Calls & Calling
• Hunting the Wild Turkey
• Advanced Turkey Hunting
• After the Shot

The DVD contains:

• The Good Hunt
• You Can't Take it Back
• Tips for Safety & Success
• 27 Shoot/Don't Shoot scenarios

The curriculum was reviewed by the International Hunter Education Association, and is available from the NWTF's Turkey Shoppe Web site . This is one way the NWTF is trying to reach out with the message of hunter safety.

http://turkey-shoppe.nwtf.org/product169.html

"Hunter safety is never ending," said Tom Hughes, NWTF hunter safety liaison. "At no point will we ever have done enough. The NWTF knows this and continues to lead the way toward incident free turkey hunting."

The NWTF also supplies Turkey Hunting Tips pamphlets and Hunt Safely Stickers to hunter education classes for a nominal fee, and has been the host of all three Wild Turkey Hunting Safety Task Force meetings.

Thanks in part to the Turkey Hunting Safety Task Force, and more awareness by hunters, today, shooting-related turkey hunting incidents are at a record low of 2.95 per 100,000 participants, down from 8.1 per 100,000 participants in 1991.

Hunting is safer than many activities that people do everyday. In fact, according to the National Safety Council a person is 77 times more likely to be killed in an automobile accident than by a firearm.

"Many people don't realize that the most dangerous part of hunting is driving there," Keck said.

To get your copy of the Turkey Hunting Success & Safety Curriculum and for more information about the NWTF call (800) 637-3106.

or click here http://turkey-shoppe.nwtf.org/product169.html