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skb12172
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International Hunter Education Association

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I was doing a search for "cross-dominant shooting" and ran across this site. Is anyone familiar with the IHEA?

http://homestudy.ihea.com/index.htm
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skb12172 wrote:I was doing a search for "cross-dominant shooting" and ran across this site. Is anyone familiar with the IHEA?

http://homestudy.ihea.com/index.htm
Taking a quick glance through their website, I am a little suspicious of any PRO-HUNTING site which lists education and many other things but does NOT feature or mention the NRA on it's pages since the NRA is the 800 lbs gorilla in the arenas of firearms training and firearms rights - regardless of your persuasion & whether you like them or not. They have the most training activities, the largest number of accessible affiliated ranges, the most competitive shooting events of any other firearms organization.

That alone doesn't mean they are shadow anti organization, much like the American Hunters and Shooters Assholes (LOL!! Here's their latest website: American Hunters and Shooters Association website is currently offline. who spent TONS of money likely funneled through that asswipe George Soros) who are REALLY trying to turn hunters and shooters against each other to split our forces in supporting the Second Amendment AS IT WAS INTENDED - WITH NO (ZERO) INFRINGEMENT, and it appears the site is support by commercial shooting organizations like the NSSF. So, I'm not going to be too hard on them, even though their home page hasn't been changed since 2004:
Initiating server query ...
  • Looking up IP address for domain: homestudy.ihea.com
    The IP address for the domain is: 69.20.93.202
    Connecting to the server on standard HTTP port: 80
    [Connected] Requesting the server's default page.
    The server returned the following response headers:
    HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2011 04:01:36 GMT
    Server: Apache/2.0.52 (Red Hat)
    Last-Modified: Mon, 02 Aug 2004 01:42:32 GMT
    ETag: "924e7f-1571-ea191200"
    Accept-Ranges: bytes
    Content-Length: 5489
    Connection: close
    Content-Type: text/html
    Query complete.
The IHEA site is nowhere as static or inactive.

So, overall, I'd say they're most likely on our side - I'd say the available information proves beyond a reasonable doubt that they're NOT an organization like the American Hunters and Shooters Assholes (offline - :lol: :lol: ), trying to hoodwink firearms enthusiasts and hunters into believing they were something that they weren't.

Someone should grab the .ORG domain name when it comes up for renew:

Domain Name:HUNTERSANDSHOOTERS.ORG
Created On:25-Apr-2005 15:33:14 UTC
Last Updated On:07-May-2010 20:03:55 UTC
Expiration Date:25-Apr-2011 15:33:14 UTC

Chris, should I clear this info so the GOOGLE bots and other crawlers don't pick it up to remind people that this domain name is expiring in a few months??
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Hmm, in the very bottom of the page, they mention "this course is made possible by the NSSF and IHEA. I've never heard of the latter. The former however is a very big, very well known trade organisation, sorta the SEMA of shooting gear.
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In some states, when you have to take the hunter safety education program prior to getting your hunting license/tags, you can complete half the course by going through the reading and tests on that website. That's how it is here anyway. Most of the stuff is so common knowledge and common sense that you don't even really need to read the text to take the tests. I've been trying to get my wife and son to finish their stuff so we can take the class portion and finally shoot some tasty animals!
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308Mike wrote: American Hunters and Shooters Assholes
Is THAT what they're called? I thought AHSA stood for Anti-Hunting and Shooting Assholes! :lol:

But seriously, how would one go about picking up the expiring thing 308Mike mentioned, and how much would that cost?
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Windy Wilson wrote:But seriously, how would one go about picking up the expiring thing 308Mike mentioned, and how much would that cost?
Basically, you wait until it expires then submit your information to renew the domain in YOUR name and contact information.
POLITICIANS & DIAPERS NEED TO BE CHANGED OFTEN AND FOR THE SAME REASON

A person properly schooled in right and wrong is safe with any weapon. A person with no idea of good and evil is unsafe with a knitting needle, or the cap from a ballpoint pen.

I remain pessimistic given the way BATF and the anti gun crowd have become tape worms in the guts of the Republic. - toad
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