Tips For Getting Your Firearns license on the first try?

[KB_TheDireWolf]

My 18 B-day is coming up, and well my b-day gift is my gun license.

So, anywhere I can do like practice test etc.

[Tactical72]

If you are of average intelligence you will pass without practice tests. The course material is straight forward and easy to understand. Just pay attention.

[blacksmithden]

When you do your practical portion, pick a break action shotgun. They're the easiest thing on earth to prove safe. Look down the barrel....yep....unloaded and safe. Done.

[RangeBob]

The easy way is to get the paper student handbook(s), and read them, then take the course, and then the tests immediately thereafter.

Here's 6 videos for the Canadian firearms safety course. Ancient stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVnKDEqsRHA

The latest manual (student handbook) is version 5 from 2014, which combines both CFSC and CRFSC into one manual:

http://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2015/grc-rcmp/PS99-2-2-1-2014-eng.pdf

There's a free on line test exam at the bottom of

http://www.firearmstraining.ca/exam.htm

Here's the old 2008-ish manuals (don't read these)

http://www.gov.pe.ca/photos/original/CFSCmanualVer2.pdf

http://www.gov.pe.ca/photos/original/CRFSCmanualV2.pdf

If you are of average intelligence you will pass without practice tests.

yep

[KB_TheDireWolf]

The easy way is to get the paper student handbook(s), and read them, then take the course, and then the tests immediately thereafter.

Here's 6 videos for the Canadian firearms safety course. Ancient stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVnKDEqsRHA

The latest manual (student handbook) is version 5 from 2014, which combines both CFSC and CRFSC into one manual:

http://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2015/grc-rcmp/PS99-2-2-1-2014-eng.pdf

There's a free on line test exam at the bottom of

http://www.firearmstraining.ca/exam.htm

Here's the old 2008-ish manuals (don't read these)

http://www.gov.pe.ca/photos/original/CFSCmanualVer2.pdf

http://www.gov.pe.ca/photos/original/CRFSCmanualV2.pdf

yep

Thanks mate, I had to do my driving license twice both my class 7 and 5 so I dont want a repeat of that lol . Just would like to have an idea what am in for.

[KB_TheDireWolf]

When you do your practical portion, pick a break action shotgun. They're the easiest thing on earth to prove safe. Look down the barrel....yep....unloaded and safe. Done.

Okay note taken. Use that if they have it.

[Foxer]

The written portion is easy if you've read your material. Purchasing the book before hand and reading it is very helpful, but it's multiple choice so it's not bad. Just READ THE QUESTION CAREFULLY, some of them are worded a little 'weird'.

the practical - go slow and think. The most common mistake is putting a finger on the trigger, be VERY careful not to do that. The rest of it is covered in the books, but pay attention to things like checking the headstamp against the barrel markings whenever you're loading, and make sure you know how to cross an obstacle (gun muzzle is pointed away from the point you'll cross at, etc). You shouldn't have a problem if you just remember the steps and basic rules - never touch the trigger till you're ready to fire, never point the gun in an unsafe direction, ALWAYS acts and prove and check your headstamps. You should be fine.

[lone-wolf]

It's a lot easier getting a firearm than it is getting your class 3a

[Weekend Gunslingers]

Do everything the previous posters mentioned....and don't be a criminal

In all seriousness, just pay attention in your safety courses, there is a lot of common sense involved and you will be fine

[FlyingHigh]

When you do your practical portion, pick a break action shotgun. They're the easiest thing on earth to prove safe. Look down the barrel....yep....unloaded and safe. Done.

You got to choose?

I did both restricted and non-restricted rolled into one course. Two practicals done at the same time. The instructor had a whole bunch of various actions; rifles, shotguns, pistols, revolvers all scattered across the table. He then said "Pick up a *insert non restricted action here* and prove it safe". After that was done he said "Now pick up a *insert restricted action here* and prove it safe".

I got what he called the cowboy combo, a lever action rifle and a double action revolver. My dad got a pump action shotgun and a semi-auto pistol iirc.


Either way, don't worry about it too much OP. Pay attention and you'll be just fine. My girlfriend did her PAL and RPAL last year. She'd shot a few times with me and I'd given her a basic run down of the actions I own (bolt, pump, semi rifle) but she had to learn the practical handgun stuff in the course as I don't own any right now. She passed with flying colours.

[Foxer]

You got to choose?

I did both restricted and non-restricted rolled into one course. Two practicals done at the same time. The instructor had a whole bunch of various actions; rifles, shotguns, pistols, revolvers all scattered across the table. He then said "Pick up a *insert non restricted action here* and prove it safe". After that was done he said "Now pick up a *insert restricted action here* and prove it safe".

I got what he called the cowboy combo, a lever action rifle and a double action revolver. My dad got a pump action shotgun and a semi-auto pistol iirc.


Either way, don't worry about it too much OP. Pay attention and you'll be just fine. My girlfriend did her PAL and RPAL last year. She'd shot a few times with me and I'd given her a basic run down of the actions I own (bolt, pump, semi rifle) but she had to learn the practical handgun stuff in the course as I don't own any right now. She passed with flying colours.

Yeah, i didn't get to choose either, and i got the lever gun as well

[lone-wolf]

You guys have better memories than me

[labradort]

When you do your practical portion, pick a break action shotgun. They're the easiest thing on earth to prove safe. Look down the barrel....yep....unloaded and safe. Done.

Didn't work that way in Nova Scotia. You are handed something random - no choice. You need to know how to prove it safe, identify ammunition for it, and secure it.

If you have that sort of test in your region, use the break times in the course to become familiar with every type of firearm. If there is a semi-auto shotgun, don't lose a fingertip in the action when you figure out where the bolt release button is. Some classes avoid stocking the semi-auto shotgun for liability reasons, but the place I went had the attitude to prepare you for everything rather than be too protective.

[lone-wolf]

If you're not familiar with how something on that particular rifle/shotgun/handgun works all you have to do is ask.
They were fine with someone not knowing the button to open the action for instance. They show you how to open it(or release the mag, ect.), then you continue on proving it safe.

[TheCenturion]

It's like passing a driving test. Do everything slow and exaggerated, and narrate what you're doing. Keep an eye on your instructor, they'll probably be giving you little cues.

Remember, kids take the same PAL course adults do, and they pass it all the time. Don't point the test firearm anywhere you're not supposed to, keep your finger well away from the trigger and trigger guard, be able to rattle off ACTS/PROVE, and for the multiple choice tests, whichever answer is the most overly-cautious, in terms of safety, is probably correct.

The test is designed to let people pass it. You really need to be either completely and obnoxiously not paying attention and half-assing it, or be an utter moron to fail.