Re: Level 2
dieseldan said:
DMQ level 2 is a pile of pish.
As the rules stand you can pay to go and shoot 3 deer and pass.
These can be the only 3 deer you have ever shot in your life. How can that pass as competance and experience.
Bull
I really fail to grasp why people look at the Level 2 in this way...To use an analogy, is simply the equivalent of the "Practical" part of modern driving test, with the Level 1 being essentially the equivalent to the "Theory" part.
Does shooting and gralloching three deer demonstrate a huge level of experience? Of course not, but it shows that the person can and has done the basics and actually got his or her hands bloody in the field so to speak...
Of European and American shooting/hunting qualifications that I know of, only the Level 2 includes this degree of practical assessment, which personally I think is good..
Is the system perfect? No, of course not...for example shooting three Muntjac has limited relevance when it comes to a person that intends stalking Reds for instance.
The trouble is, how do you improve it? If DMQ insisted that to get the Level 2, a person needed to take say 4 deer, but each of a different species, I am sure people here would complain loudly that they only ever stalk XXX , so why should they pay to stalk the other species just to get their Level 2?
I think the answer is that the qualification is what it is...A person has a portfolio of evidence and where needed can produce that to an interested party..Its up to that interested party to decide just how relevant that Level 2 is depending on the circumstances.
Nobody is saying that holding the Level 2 is the "be-it- and- end-all", nor that somebody who holds it is some sort of "superstalker"; rather that coupled with the Level 1, its show a basic level of knowledge & experience and is really only a starting point, nothing more...