westcoast highlands
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So on Thursday morning myself and my son set off to Great Cressingham to attend a DSC1 course ran by BASC. It was all a bit nerve wracking to be going back into a class room and sit an assessment!, but having read the course material and also having picked tips up from this forum we also purchased the ultimate data data from BDS, which together have helped us a huge amount.
everyone on the course was lovely, and with a broad spectrum of experience and reasons for doing the course, Thursday and Friday were all classroom based, and then on Saturday afternoon we went out to visit the range, as well as look at deer damage, judge distance and have a relaxed talk about safety aspects, this was incredibly reassuring everyone and gave us a time to understand how today (Sunday) was going to run.
so assessment day was on us!, we were joined by two new gentlemen, one who was resitting the general questions and the shooting, and one who had chosen not to do the course but come just for the assessment!. First up was dear recognition which I felt went very well as did everyone in the group, then onto the 50 general questions I think I did ok, maybe dropped some answers for bloody silly mistakes! and nervous!, then onto meat hygiene and probably the same as before but also a couple of questions on wild boar which caught me out.
we headed of to the range, and to do the safety stalk, we did our stalk to get that done while other members were shooting, the stalk went very well, with all questions answered fairly easily, we then headed down to the range to shoot, and that’s when all of a sudden the pressure grew!, 4 of the 10 of us had shot and all failed,1 person failed up at the range for shooting and safety at the same time!, so it eventually came round to me shooting!, I was using an estate rifle in .308 3 good zero rounds, then into the assessment, shot 1 good, shot 2 pulled it left out of the target area fail! So restart shot 1&2 good from prone at 100 meters , shot 3&4 good off sticks at 70 meters, then shots 5&6 head shot were all good so a
. so only 4 of 10 candidates passed the shooting part of the assessment, luckly myself and son were 2 of them!. I must say I felt really sorry for a lady on the course who had not much shooting experienc, who on her 2nd attempt failed on the very last shot.
so to sum up the course, it’s definitely worth doing the course from the start, you pick up some very handy tips and snippets of knowledge and the instructors really try to put you at ease, as do the assessors, ( although they did call a miss for my son when it wasn’t!, but he was confident to question it and very quickly resolved the mix up ), so really enjoyed it now just the wait to see if we have passed the 50 & 40 questions!, thank you to everyone on the course as well as everyone who has given advice . Thank you.
everyone on the course was lovely, and with a broad spectrum of experience and reasons for doing the course, Thursday and Friday were all classroom based, and then on Saturday afternoon we went out to visit the range, as well as look at deer damage, judge distance and have a relaxed talk about safety aspects, this was incredibly reassuring everyone and gave us a time to understand how today (Sunday) was going to run.
so assessment day was on us!, we were joined by two new gentlemen, one who was resitting the general questions and the shooting, and one who had chosen not to do the course but come just for the assessment!. First up was dear recognition which I felt went very well as did everyone in the group, then onto the 50 general questions I think I did ok, maybe dropped some answers for bloody silly mistakes! and nervous!, then onto meat hygiene and probably the same as before but also a couple of questions on wild boar which caught me out.
we headed of to the range, and to do the safety stalk, we did our stalk to get that done while other members were shooting, the stalk went very well, with all questions answered fairly easily, we then headed down to the range to shoot, and that’s when all of a sudden the pressure grew!, 4 of the 10 of us had shot and all failed,1 person failed up at the range for shooting and safety at the same time!, so it eventually came round to me shooting!, I was using an estate rifle in .308 3 good zero rounds, then into the assessment, shot 1 good, shot 2 pulled it left out of the target area fail! So restart shot 1&2 good from prone at 100 meters , shot 3&4 good off sticks at 70 meters, then shots 5&6 head shot were all good so a
. so only 4 of 10 candidates passed the shooting part of the assessment, luckly myself and son were 2 of them!. I must say I felt really sorry for a lady on the course who had not much shooting experienc, who on her 2nd attempt failed on the very last shot.so to sum up the course, it’s definitely worth doing the course from the start, you pick up some very handy tips and snippets of knowledge and the instructors really try to put you at ease, as do the assessors, ( although they did call a miss for my son when it wasn’t!, but he was confident to question it and very quickly resolved the mix up ), so really enjoyed it now just the wait to see if we have passed the 50 & 40 questions!, thank you to everyone on the course as well as everyone who has given advice . Thank you.
