Hunter Safety

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Hunter Safety

• From foukeffa.org
• GA Ag Ed Curriculum Office
• To accompany the Georgia Agriculture Education
  Curriculum
• Course 01411 Unit 11
• July 2001

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What is Safety and What is an Accident?

• Safety is preventing accidents from happening
• Accidents are unintentional or unexpected
  happenings with someone or something being hurt
  or killed as the result

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What Are the Three Keys to Safety?

• Attitude
• Skill
• Knowledge

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Which Key is Most Important?

• Attitude
• You are the brain of the gun and if you have a
  bad attitude, you will be unsafe!

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Where Do Most Firearm Accidents Happen?

• In
• The
• Home

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Four Human Traits That Cause Accidents

• Ignorance
• Carelessness

• Excitement
• Competition or Peer Pressure

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• Firearms and Ammunition

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Objectives

• Identify 5 major firearm actions
• Locate, and identify safeties
• Explain when to release the safety on the firearm
• Identify the types of sights found on firearms
• Properly match firearm and ammunition

• Define firearm
• List and identify the components of the modern
  rifle and shotgun ammunition
• Explain the difference between a shot gun and a
  rifle barrel
• Identify parts of firearm

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What is a firearm?

• A device which propels a bullet or projectile
  from a tube to a target, using a controlled
  explosive.

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What Are the Parts to a Firearm?
-----------Barrel--------------
Action
-------------------------Stock--------------------
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Muzzle Loaders

• Most early firearms
• Loaded by pouring gunpowder and shoving
  projectile in through front end of the barrel

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Modern Cartridges

• Rifle Ammunition has 4 basic parts

Bullet
Case
Powder
Primer
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Shotgun Shells

• Shotgun
• shells have
• 5
• components
• May have a
• single shot called
• a slug

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Differences Between a Rifle and a Shotgun

• Rifle fires a single projectile called a bullet
• Rifle has a thicker barrel
• Rifle has groves (or rifling) in end of barrel to
  put a spin on the projectile

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Differences Between a Rifle and a Shotgun
Continued

• A shotgun usually fires a cluster of projectiles
  called shot
• Barrel is thin and smooth
• Shotguns have tightening of the barrel at the
  muzzle which is called choke
• Full-keeps shot close together
• Modified
• Improved cylinder
• Cylinder bore-no constriction

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Break Action

• A break or break action which works like a hinge
  on a door
• Reveals at a glace if the firearm is loaded
• Often selected as the first gun for a young hunter

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Bolt Action

• Works much like an old fashioned door bolt
• To open, lift the handle up and then pull to the
  rear
• Cartridge should be ejected as bolt is pulled back

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Lever Action

• Old West type
• Worked by shoving extension of the trigger guard
  downward and forward
• One of the most dangerous actions because it has
  an exposed hammer

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Pump Action

• Also called slide or trombone
• Pump will open after it is fired

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Semi-automatic

• Usually has a clip or is magazine fed
• Must pull trigger each time to fire