Qualifications card

[Conor O'Gorman]

A new card is available to all shooters, allowing users to display their shooting qualifications in one place. The Qualifications Card, launched by BASC and DMQ, includes a photo, membership number and a list of your shooting qualifications. The card is designed to assist users in situations such as gaining permissions to shoot and selling wild game to game dealers. The card is open to BASC members and non-members.

BASC launches new Qualifications Card

The card provides proof of identity and qualifications for BASC members and non-members, perfect for gaining shooting permissions.

basc.org.uk

Qualifications Card Application - BASC

Qualifications Card BASC & DMQ are pleased to announce the launch of the Qualifications Card. This is a wallet-sized card which includes your photo, name and BASC & DMQ number along with the list of BASC & DMQ qualifications you currently hold, and the date they were achieved. When you […]

basc.org.uk

 

[VSS]

What qualifications exactly can be listed on the card, other than the obvious DSC1 & 2?

 

[enfieldspares]

And yet it does NOT have a check box for having passed BASC's own "Shotgun Proficiency Award Scheme" that I did on 13 February 1989 when that was the "nearest" thing to having passed a "recognised national hunting examination" equivalent to then shoot in France.

You needed to know seasons, suitable ammunition, accurately estimate range, show in a practical test (at Kibworth Shooting Ground) safe handling and awareness of backstops, quarry identification and etc.. It was taught at "Adult Learning" at "Night School" and was a five or six week course of two hours one night a week plus the Kibworth practical test.

Why is that? Can a tick box for it be added? If not why not? Doesn't BASC know what its own proficiency schemes are?



I have just done, now, online the "Safe Shot" getting 25/25 and downloaded it but would like also the Proficiency Scheme recognised as the "Safe Shot" has no element of seasons, quarry, safe backstop practical assessment or distance judging.

 

[Rewulf]

And 'only' £15

 

[Apthorpe]

I thought the objective is supposed to be encouraging new people into shooting, rather than creating barriers to entry?
Schemes like this are fundamentally bad.

 

[Klenchblaize]

It’s a good idea but my one concern is security of data as ‘managed’ by BASC.

K

 

[Tugmanade]

And 'only' £15

Suck a bit more cash out of them

 

[potshotpat]

And 'only' £15

Cherrys to pigs

 

[Woodsmoke]

Oh, for fuc . . . . . .

 

[Cranborne]

......'s sake? My thoughts exactly.

 

[terrier1]

The card is open to BASC members and none members.
So why is this on the application form.
BASC Membership Number(Required)
Just another money making idea from BASC

 

[Tugmanade]

The card is open to BASC members and none members.
So why is this on the application form.
BASC Membership Number(Required)

To chance their arm that you might be gullible enough to join

 

[Night òwl]

It’s a good idea but my one concern is security of data as ‘managed’ by BASC.

K

And others it seems

 

[Night òwl]

Trying to claw back the revenue from lost membership after members have seen through them with the lead free debate

 

[Utectok]

Hhhuh open to none basc members … not

 

[cjm1066]

I have had a shooting CV for years, how different is this?

 

[Mike L]

Same old same old.

 

[Sampo]

After guntrader data breach, I am nervous of any database which contains a list of shooters details, this time with even pictures included.

 

[Liveonce]

I have resisted bashing BASC for a while now, but they do come across as complete amateurs, even their recent stance on lead as published looks like a U turn or panic as the consequence of their voluntary transition comes home.

 

[Greenmist]

@Conor O'Gorman, surely a better option would be to include it on the membership card. Another issue I will point out, turning up to a farm with a small and difficult to read card is less likely to impress than an A4 display folder nicely organised with all licences, qualifications, insurance and risk assessments in an easy to read format.