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This Lantra-accredited Customised Award is exclusively developed and delivered by a Lantra-approved Training Provider, who meets our quality standards. The course is specifically tailored to meet learners’ needs. For further details about the course content and delivery locations, please contact the Training Provider using the details provided below.
The minimum age to undertake this course is 12.
Designed to provide a mixture of both classroom and practical training, learners can quickly learn the skills, knowledge and understanding required to safely handle a rifle.
Delivery method
Theory and PracticalRecognised by
Lantra AwardsCourse description:
Who should attend?
This course has been designed for those that regularly use a rifle as part of their daily job such as; estate managers, farm owners, shooting syndicates, game keepers, and those who either employ gamekeepers or allow contractors onto their land to shoot.
Learners who require a refresher course, beginners, and novice shooters who would like to hold a recognised qualification are very to complete this course.
What will be covered?
This course covers:
- Firearms law, transportation & storage
- Firearms safety
- The rifle and its components
- Ammunition
- Understanding the environmental effects of external ballistics and bullet flight
- Zeroing your rifle
- Fundamentals of marksmanship, trigger control, and recoil management confirmation
- Shot placement, safe backstops, shooting in the field or at a shooting range
- Positional shooting on and around urban obstacles
- A written test & practical assessment.
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