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Road to Rifleman => Skill Sets of Shooting => Topic started by: Old Dog on December 01, 2007, 06:38:50 PM

Title: Using Fred's Guide to Becoming a Rifleman to get you to thinking #5
Post by: Old Dog on December 01, 2007, 06:38:50 PM
The most important safety rule:

a.  unloaded and grounded

b.  finger off the trigger

c.  know your backstop

d.  muzzle always in a safe direction

Title: Re: Using Fred's Guide to Becoming a Rifleman to get you to thinking #5
Post by: ken grant on December 01, 2007, 06:47:27 PM
   D------ ;D
Title: Re: Using Fred's Guide to Becoming a Rifleman to get you to thinking #5
Post by: didactic on December 01, 2007, 07:33:37 PM
D.  Slam-dunk.  Prevents a disaster even in the event of almost any other mistake.
Title: Re: Using Fred's Guide to Becoming a Rifleman to get you to thinking #5
Post by: wcmartin1 on December 01, 2007, 08:06:40 PM
Definitely "D".

Or as I originally learned it -

Never point your rifle at anything that you do not wish to destroy.
Title: Re: Using Fred's Guide to Becoming a Rifleman to get you to thinking #5
Post by: Old Dog on December 03, 2007, 09:32:50 PM
D it is.  As the guide says, even if a mistake is made and a round goes off then it goes where no one is at as long as the muzzle is pointed in a safe direction.
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