WDNR Wisconsin Wingshooting: advanced shotgun training:
For the last several years, WWA volunteers have been performed sessions of the Wisconsin Wingshooting program. These instructors have completed an extensive two day hands-on training program themselves, to become qualified to train others in the skills necessary to become a more effective shooter, using non-toxic shotshell loads. As of the fall of 2015, WWA had five volunteer instructors, who have completed the instructor’s training course.
Courtesy of the Missouri Department of Conservation
Course objectives:
- To provide you the information and skills needed to decrease your wounding loss of waterfowl and upland game
- To encourage better hunting ethics therefore fostering a better appreciation of our wildlife resource
Wingshooting for Migratory Birds outcomes:
- Better shooting means more consistent harvesting of birds
- Better distance estimation means fewer marginal shots taken
- Appropriate firearms, choke, and ammunition choices
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The result: fewer wounded birds!
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Ensuring that hunting continues to be “socially acceptable”:
Selective harvest of drakes is a long-standing tradition of skilled waterfowlers…
- Surveys indicate that the non-hunting public will accept a wounding rate of 10% or less, before voting against hunting
- Helping train waterfowl hunters to be more effective, more ethical, helps ensure the future of our pursuits!
Interested in participating?
Any of the courses available in the state are always posted on the WDNR website, or you can review our Events calendar here, to see if the WWA team is hosting a upcoming training session near you.