if you didn't know, NC endorses a free online NRA hunter safety course. It satisfies the requirements to get a hunting license.
I took it. it was boring, but it was available on my free time
I tried from october to january to make it to an in-person class, but there were almost none available here.
I'd have greatly preferred to meet with somebody who could teach me things... but i did what was available.
I'm hitting 30 years of not eating meat. I was never against meat, i was just against the disconnect most people have between dinner and where dinner came from. My plan is to maybe start eating again, but eating only meat that i have known personally.
But I don't know any hunters.