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Firearm safety and handling rifles
The PH (Professional hunter) and myself made the necessary arrangements and we met at a shooting range. My first lesson entailed basic firearm safety and the handling of rifles, learning the differences each calibre, what it is used for etc.
The following is a short summary of what I learned and might seem menial to the more experienced hunters but I think these are the things that become so automatic when you become more experienced but form the basics of good shooting. One of my ex-employers one day said:
"One should not look where you are, but sometimes take the time to stand still and look where you came from."
On to the important stuff for my fellow Rookies:
We first handled basic firearm safety:
- Do not touch a firearm that lies around - consider it loaded.
- Do not accept any firearm handed to you by any other person unless the bolt is open.
- When taking the firearm, ensure that there is no bullet in the barrel - this can be checked visually or you can stick your finger into the barrel to feel if there is a bullet.
- Having the safety on does not mean anything.
We discussed the difference between guns and rifles. Guns don't have rifling and lands, the barrel is smooth. Rifling inside rifles' barrels ensures that the bullet spin, hence giving it speed.
Parts of the rifles. The stock, bolt, trigger, trigger cover, back sight, fore sight and the barrel.
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