The Non/Restricted fire arms course..
06-16-2004, 11:31 AM
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I am soon taking a fire arms training program. It is a requirement to have fire arms training to work security in nuclear plants. $270 later, I'm signed up.
The course starts in 2 weeks. I'm just wondering if anyone else has done it before and can tell me what it is like.
The course starts in 2 weeks. I'm just wondering if anyone else has done it before and can tell me what it is like.
06-16-2004, 04:15 PM
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They actually say that the hunting course is harder then the fac course, but each were pretty easy for me when I took them a bunch of years ago. Basically like said before, it's mostly about safety, even the fac course isn't as technical as I thought it was. You will have the know what VERIFY means, each letter represents a safety word in regaurds to fire arms, none of which I can remember now. [img]tongue.gif[/img]
The written are pretty simple, multiple choice and true/false I beleive. The practical consisted of naming several fired and unfired shells, demonstrating how to make sure a gun is not loaded (VERIFY) and show how to properly cross an obstacle, mine happened to be a make beleive fence. I remember I lost 1 point because I did not check to make sure the gun wasn't loaded after I set it down on the other side of the imaginary fence when I picked it up again.
You wanna know the dumbest part, and those who have taken the course will prolly agree. I was always taught to never point a gun at anything that I didn't intend to shoot, but in the course, they teach you to actually look down the barrel, from the breach and from the end of the barrel so that the gun it pointed right at your eye. And you know that none of these instructors do that everytime they pick up a gun.
The written are pretty simple, multiple choice and true/false I beleive. The practical consisted of naming several fired and unfired shells, demonstrating how to make sure a gun is not loaded (VERIFY) and show how to properly cross an obstacle, mine happened to be a make beleive fence. I remember I lost 1 point because I did not check to make sure the gun wasn't loaded after I set it down on the other side of the imaginary fence when I picked it up again.
You wanna know the dumbest part, and those who have taken the course will prolly agree. I was always taught to never point a gun at anything that I didn't intend to shoot, but in the course, they teach you to actually look down the barrel, from the breach and from the end of the barrel so that the gun it pointed right at your eye. And you know that none of these instructors do that everytime they pick up a gun.
I'd fail, cause i'd refuse to point a gun at my own head.
