It took me 2 years to finally take the class. The classes are small. Just keep trying and be willing to travel anywhere in state.

If you can call the field office running the course I would. My buddy had a similar issue with the firearm registration and he called and got a spot. He initially registered and had to no show for some family issues and they wouldn't let him re register because his account got flagged. He was told that people from some anti hunting organizations had been registering for the classes and then no showing to keep people who need the class from getting in. But after talking to someone he was able to get into the next one. I got my firearm cert during early covid and it was pretty easy to get into for me so I can't share the same sentiment.

I’m a bow hunter, as well as black powder and shotguns. Where are you located?

The state leaders don't really want hunting to be allowed, but it's necessary for population control. So they don't put much effort into the program to train new hunters, and don't provide enough funding to DEEP programs related to hunting and fishing.

It sucks, if you try talking to most legislators, they either don't care, or think all hunters are mass shooters, even if they bow hunt.

And some have passwords that I have no idea how to obtain. I've been very dissatisfied with attempting to register for the course on the DEEP website. Very dissatisfied

Middletown

Deep in general is woefully underfunded. Most of them are fine with hunting, but there’s no staff and folks that are there are doing 3 jobs.

If you want to register for a course, you need to be waiting at 11:59PM to sign up at midnight the day registration opens. I signed up for a class recently and was successful doing this. Class filled quickly within a few minutes of midnight.

Thats messed up