I am booked in for the 4-day, DSC1 course run by BASC next week - I can't seem to find what time the course starts each day?? Just states 'All day'??
BASC DSC1
- Thread starter Keith Edmunds
- Start date
Freightdog
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When I did mine it was 9am start.
Thanks, I'll see if I can find something official but I thought it would probably be a 9am start.
Out of interest how is the course broken down across 4 days?
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Freightdog
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I'd have to check my notes to see what specific order we did the theory in, but basically working through legal, species, equipment, ballistics etc throughout the 4 days. We did the shooting test on day 3 and the exam and practical on day 4.
Looks like we start at 09:30 on day one.
Norfolk Horn
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Just make sure you know which target they won't you to shoot as even a excellent group in the wrong target doesn't count.
Well so a friend tells me.
Well so a friend tells me.
At Chippenham Park starting on the 4th?
It makes reference to 9am at the bottom of one of the pages.... but yeah not super obvious at all. (i'm on this one at Chippenham Park)
Hi Tom, look forward to seeing you there....see email below, I'll get there for 0900 to be sure to be sure
Dear Keith
Your DSC1 course will start at 9.30am on the first day. However, please feel free to arrive anytime after 9.00am so you can meet the trainer and grab a tea/coffee. At the start of the course, your trainer will run this agenda for each day and will let you know if the start times for the remaining days will be any different. The first day should finish between 4.30/5.30pm.
Kind Regards
Jo Lavery
Try to enjoy it
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Precision123
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Did that once against the Ghurkas.Just make sure you know which target they won't you to shoot as even a excellent group in the wrong target doesn't count.
Well so a friend tells me.
I know somebody that did that. Oh how we laughed.Just make sure you know which target they won't you to shoot as even a excellent group in the wrong target doesn't count.
Well so a friend tells me.
Precision123
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Spats? That you?I know somebody that did that. Oh how we laughed.
I completed my dsc1 with basc over4 days, I met some great like minded people, from all all walks of life, I enjoyed it, I thought the trainer was spot on, new his stuff, had a great sense of humour ,enjoy it, 
When I did mine a million years ago it was 3 days.
Themidlandstalker
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Day 1 2 and 3 are classroom based excersies, going through the legals, obviously the species and how they all act, what makes them different etc etc, the safety of the rifle, how it works.....quite a overload of info and you need to have studied beforehand as you'll do well to take it all in otherwise. Make notes....the course instructor will usually prompt you to make a note if they feel it necessary.
The 4th day is the practical side.
A walk round a set up simulated deer stalk with 4 deer silhouettes. USUALLY but not always 3 are not safe and 1 is safe. Explain why this is the case, unsafe because.......houses behind it, no clear backstop, a hedge behind the animal and you don't know what's behind hedge, water behind and ricochet risk...common sense and the one that's safe will clearly be safe....
You will be asked a series of questions while you walk round holding your rifle, unloaded but for the purpose of the exam you assume it is loaded, as you always should.
Question like...what would you do if you were alone and had to cross a fence. You need to answer in the right sequence, refer to manual. Trainer will prompt you if you mental block, we are all human.
Then the shooting side.
6 shots in total..everyone has to be within the circle or broken the line.
2 shots at 100m , prone into the chest area.
2 shots at 70m. Usually off sticks. Into chest area.
2 shots at between 10+20m off sticks into the head area.
You get two chances at this. All 3 parts are classed as one try, therefore if you pull 1 shot in the 70m part, then you have to start the whole thing again. As said you get two chances per day.
You can zero your rifle beforehand using the zero targets. Shooting at the deer silhouettes are not allowed. Take plenty of rounds, if you don't zero and you pass first time you will only use 6 rounds.
Take a set of sticks, quads if possible. You can borrow sticks but better to familiarise yourself with your own kit.
Hope this helps a little.
Ruby Tuesday 2
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We had a chap shoot the wrong target on a bds dsc course, obviously he failed and the poor sod whos target it was failed as well as we had no idea who's shots were who's.....
Maybe they should pop a shooter number on the targets. Just something you see on your scope like a white number in the ear.
As much as I think the shooter should be competent enough to get the right target, it's not on for the poor sod who is also failing because someone blew holes in their target.
As much as I think the shooter should be competent enough to get the right target, it's not on for the poor sod who is also failing because someone blew holes in their target.
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