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Title: Hunter Safety


1
Hunter Safety
  • From foukeffa.org
  • GA Ag Ed Curriculum Office
  • To accompany the Georgia Agriculture Education
    Curriculum
  • Course 01411 Unit 11
  • July 2001

2
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

3
What Are the Three Keys to Safety?
  • Attitude
  • Skill
  • Knowledge

4
Which Key is Most Important?
  • Attitude
  • You are the brain of the gun and if you have a
    bad attitude, you will be unsafe!

5
Where Do Most Firearm Accidents Happen?
  • In
  • The
  • Home

6
Four Human Traits That Cause Accidents
  • Ignorance
  • Carelessness
  • Excitement
  • Competition or Peer Pressure

7
  • Firearms and Ammunition

8
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

9
What is a firearm?
  • A device which propels a bullet or projectile
    from a tube to a target, using a controlled
    explosive.

10
What Are the Parts to a Firearm?
-----------Barrel--------------
Action
-------------------------Stock--------------------
------
11
Muzzle Loaders
  • Most early firearms
  • Loaded by pouring gunpowder and shoving
    projectile in through front end of the barrel

12
Modern Cartridges
  • Rifle Ammunition has 4 basic parts

Bullet
Case
Powder
Primer
13
Shotgun Shells
  • Shotgun
  • shells have
  • 5
  • components
  • May have a
  • single shot called
  • a slug

14
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

15
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

16
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

17
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

18
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

19
Pump Action
  • Also called slide or trombone
  • Pump will open after it is fired

20
Semi-automatic
  • Usually has a clip or is magazine fed
  • Must pull trigger each time to fire
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