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dilb0
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I have no experience of using a rifle and would like to brush up on rifle safety and see if i can manage the shooting part.
dilb0
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I have gave Brian an email hopefully he can provide some advice.
bottletopbill
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Buy a deer target from BDS to practice on cost £6.00 and join DSC training online for two months (best training and mock test)
Helped me pass in less than two months and surprised me when I took my DSC1 was a tick exercise .
And book a course first.
And I was a newbie to deer stalking at 65years
Good luck
Helped me pass in less than two months and surprised me when I took my DSC1 was a tick exercise .
And book a course first.
And I was a newbie to deer stalking at 65years
Good luck
I am not sure if a course isn't a good thing if you are in the least bit anxious. Safety is so important, if you grow up in a gun owning family (as I and my son did) you should have absorbed good habits from just watching but, and it is a big but, what happens if you have learned a couple of sloppy habits. Maybe being checked over isn't a bad thing.
David.
David.
bottletopbill
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Guys who have shoot deer and hunted still failed there test Please practice on all aspects of the shooting test 100y prone 70m and 10m do of sticks as sitting is hard as other's told me.
Used my sticks for the first time in my test and passed at first attempt. Learn them circles on the target as in the wet they look different .
Go for it
Used my sticks for the first time in my test and passed at first attempt. Learn them circles on the target as in the wet they look different .
Go for it
ZimCoxy136
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funnily enough, the only person to fail the shooting test when I did my dsc1 was the loud-mouth ‘professional deer manager’ who shot hundreds of deer a yearGuys who have shoot deer and hunted still failed there test Please practice on all aspects of the shooting test 100y prone 70m and 10m do of sticks as sitting is hard as other's told me.
Used my sticks for the first time in my test and passed at first attempt. Learn them circles on the target as in the wet they look different .
Go for it
dilb0
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funnily enough, the only person to fail the shooting test when I did my dsc1 was the loud-mouth ‘professional deer manager’ who shot hundreds of deer a year
superb
bottletopbill
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Koenig
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Yep, seen that happen twice now. Laughed my b@lls off at the first guy. He’d been talking ‘big time’ the entire day up until he fluffed it….after which he was much less talkative.funnily enough, the only person to fail the shooting test when I did my dsc1 was the loud-mouth ‘professional deer manager’ who shot hundreds of deer a year
TringSaint
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You also have the option to just do the exam.
I got the training manual and the study guide question app thing and rocked up to the exam and passed - probably only a good idea if you have a degree of experience as opposed to fresh into stalking tho.
ZimCoxy136
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Brilliant- nothing quite like a nice warm slice of humble pie!Yep, seen that happen twice now. Laughed my b@lls off at the first guy. He’d been talking ‘big time’ the entire day up until he fluffed it….after which he was much less talkative.
Koenig
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You could as a candidate take this approach and many do. TS makes a valid point around having a certain level of experience which I agree with. Whilst I did my DSC1 in 2016 (I don’t suppose things have changed) most who failed on my course either couldn’t differentiate between species/sex in the recognition test which is a relatively easy fix by buying the DMQ online revision tool (£10). Or, just couldn’t shoot and group from the various positions/distances. For those without an FAC/rifle that they were familiar with this poses a real challenge. I think a half range day to iron out any unfamiliarity with the test and learn techniques and point of aim with a couple of dry runs would be a wise addition to the syllabus. Certainly if I was testing a shoot with soldiers I would invest the time to build them up to a point where they had the opportunity to perform to their maximum potential (the rest is on them) - hence the term ‘test.’
bottletopbill
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I had no experience of deer stalking when I took my DSC1 in October.
One guy from Essex claimed to have shoot many deer on his perm's could not I D the deer species despite the trainer showing the same deer time after time.
I learnt from DSC online training cost about twenty pounds fare cheaper than a retest passed at first go on all six parts. money well spent
And as stated spend time on the range .
You meet some great guys on the course as well
Good luck and go for it dont waste time like i did for years
One guy from Essex claimed to have shoot many deer on his perm's could not I D the deer species despite the trainer showing the same deer time after time.
I learnt from DSC online training cost about twenty pounds fare cheaper than a retest passed at first go on all six parts. money well spent
And as stated spend time on the range .
You meet some great guys on the course as well
Good luck and go for it dont waste time like i did for years
How many you shot since passing Bill?I had no experience of deer stalking when I took my DSC1 in October.
One guy from Essex claimed to have shoot many deer on his perm's could not I D the deer species despite the trainer showing the same deer time after time.
I learnt from DSC online training cost about twenty pounds fare cheaper than a retest passed at first go on all six parts. money well spent
And as stated spend time on the range .
You meet some great guys on the course as well
Good luck and go for it dont waste time like i did for years
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