hunter safety course

[fezman]

it sounds to me like it may be time for some hunter safety courses or a trip to the local gun club to take a basic firearms safety course. it only takes one stupid move to hurt your self or someone else. they can teach you all the differnt kinds of guns and there uses and its much more effective to have the instructon in a hands on situation than reading it online or out of a book. every one new to guns must get some kind of safety lesson evan some one like me that grew up around firearms. when i turned 12 my o'l man took me down to the local gun club for hunter safety. he said it was because i didnt listen to him and sgt. Farmer could get the point accross much better. he was right. as ive gotten older i still take classes on guns mostly selfdefence stuff but evan last week i took a quick class on improveing my skeet score.

[maggietheduckdog07]

your so right, last year while waiting on the school bus one of my friends pointed a lil bb gun at my foot. i told him to pull the trigger nothins gonna come out. come to find out it was loaded with a pellet, and pumped to full strenght. luckily it hit a bone, and the pellet bounced out. next thing i knew i was on the school bus going to school cuz i thought it was gonna get better. the pellet didnt hit any viens, or major blood vessels. but about a cm to the right and it would have hit a vien, and i would have gone to the er instead of just the local family md. and the ironic thing is we both had our hunter safety cards on us, but were just a bunch of crazy kids that deserved to find out the hard way. to everyone else, take the course i took mine for free, bring your kids, i dont know any other state laws, but here in louisiana, if you arent old enough for a hunters liscene you need a hunter safety card to be able to hunt, and if you take advantage of the free annual duck hunting on a national wildlife refuge like i do youll need one. any questions about the national wildlife refuge system concerning public hunting, fishng, crabbing, or anything else, feel free to ask, ive done alot of projects for them, and i know the federal law enforcement agent personally, along with a few other staff members here in the region.

[Sepehr]

hear in canada in order to buy shot guns and rifles u need to take the non-restrcted safety course and for handguns u need to take the restricted safty course
and in order to go hunting u need to take the c.o.r.e course.....

[Webfoot]

I'm not sure if my comment about not knowing the "working's of and autoloader" prompted this or not. I guess I mean that I don't think I am able to completely disassemble or re-assemble an autoloader. I do belong to a shooting club where I shoot my father's old Browing 16g semi-auto. I don't go all that often anymore though.

The only cleaning I know how to do is the barrel and the residue that builds around the magazine tube, spring and what I can see to clean inside the receiver, without taking it apart. Does that mean I am unsafe with my firearm? I hardly think so. I am a little scared to open the entire thing up. I clean it as best I can everytime I shoot it and have never had any hangups. I have never been shown how to fully disassemble and clean autoloader.

I do most of my shooting from my duck blind with a Rem 870. Before I bought a new shotgun I wanted to make sure the appropriate manual came with it so I can continue to learn.

I saw that there were many knowledgeable people here, that is why I asked.

In Missouri you must take a hunter ed. class before you can legally hunt, unless you born before a certain date. I think it was around 1969. I was born in 1977.

Sorry for the novel,
Michael