Shotgun safety officers course
Aimed at equipping you with the knowledge, understanding, skills and awareness required to identify and manage issues pertaining to safety on a clay pigeon shoot.
Introduction to woodpigeon shooting
This one-day course has been designed to give you all the practical and theoretical knowledge required to confidently and competently shoot woodpigeons.
What is covered
- The law and general licences
- Quarry identification
- Safety when shooting in hides
- Reconnaissance and hide building
- Respect for quarry
- Pigeon shooting equipment
- Decoys and their use
- Hide discipline
Introduction to woodpigeon shooting
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Cost
BASC members: £110Â
If you are not a BASC member please contact the training & education department on 01244 573018 for more information or click here to join.
Should there be insufficient bookings, BASC reserves the right to cancel the course. In the interests of fairness, BASC will aim to notify candidates of cancellation as soon as possible before the advertised start date.
We strongly recommend that fees for any accommodation you book be refundable as BASC will not be responsible for any losses candidates incur.
If for any reason you cancel your place on the course then the following scale of charges may apply:
|
Charge non-members |
Charge members |
|
| Reallocation to another course (only available eight weeks or more before the course start date) |
£25 |
£25 |
| Second reallocation to another course (only available eight weeks or more before the course start date AND only in exceptional circumstances) |
£50 |
£50 |
| Cancellation more than eight weeks before the course start date |
40% course cost |
30% course cost |
| Cancellation less than eight weeks but more than four weeks before the course start date |
75% course cost |
60% course cost |
| Cancellation less than four weeks before the course start date |
100% course cost |
100% course cost |
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