Shooting safety is of utmost importance to you and
especially your fellow shooters. Follow the rules
below when shooting and make your day safe and
successful.
General Gun Safety Rules:
1. Point your gun in a safe direction. (Away from others
loaded or unloaded)
2. Treat your gun as if it were loaded at all times.
3. Keep your gun unloaded until it is your turn to shoot.
4. Keep your gun on safe till ready to shoot
5. Keep your finger off the trigger or trigger guard till you are
ready to shoot.
6. Wear shooting or safety glasses to protect your eyes.
7. Before shooting be sure that there is nothing behind the
target.
8. When giving your gun to someone else, be sure that it is
unloaded and on safe.
9. When taking a gun from someone else be sure that it is
unloaded and on safe.
10. When storing your gun, be sure that it is unloaded and
on safe.
Club Rules:
1) ALL persons on a trap or skeet range are required to wear
eye AND ear protection. This includes but is not limited to
shooters, referees, and trap help.
2) No gun shall be loaded until the shooter is on the shooting
station (in the white box). Loading is considered as putting
any part of a loaded shell in any part of the gun.
3) Always stand in a group behind the shooting station that is
being used. Never walk to the side of or in front of the shooter.
If you have to walk somewhere, notify the shooter and make
sure guns are unloaded.
4) All guns, loaded or unloaded, shall be kept pointed in a
direction that will not endanger the lives of any person.
5) When not on the shooting station, all guns shall be carried
with the action open. Pumps and automatics will have the
bolt open. Fixed breech guns (including double barrels) will
be broken open. Keep the muzzle away from obstructions.
Keep the muzzle off of the ground.
6) If a delay occurs when a shooter is on a shooting station,
ready to shoot, the breach of the gun shall be opened and
all shells extracted.
7) During the shooting of single targets in skeet, two shells
may be loaded except at station 8, only one shell is to be
loaded at a time.
8) The loading of more than two shells in the gun shall not
be allowed at any time.
9) A gun may not be used if it will accept more than one gauge
of shells at the same time.
10) Pick up your empty shells.
11) Use of a gun with a "release type trigger" is strongly
discouraged. Any person who elects to use a gun of this type
must notify ALL shooters in his or her squad.
12) Shooters shall not intentionally fire a second time at the
same target.
13) Consumption of alcohol is not permitted at any official club
function. No person who is under the influence of ANY
intoxicating substance may shoot. This includes but is not
limited to alcohol, IN ANY AMOUNT.
14) Should any person knowingly and repeatedly violate club safety
rules, all officers present shall discuss the matter and reach a
decision as the action to be taken.
15) Each person who shoots with the club shall read the safety rules
of the club, initial each rule, and sign stating that he or she
understands the club rules and agrees to follow them.
For more information about gun safety, consider consulting
the links below.
http://www.nrahq.org/education/guide.asp
http://www.pssatrap.org/safety.htm
http://homestudy.ihea.com/firearmsafety/01actt.htm
