In House Training

We at The Country Sports Shop are considering putting a training area onto the shop to cover subjects such as:

• Firearms Safe Handling Training

• Metallic Cartridge Reloading

• Rifle Maintenance

• Hide & High Seat Building

The Pro-Shooter Metallic Reloading Course - Monday 16th March 2020

We have put together not only the basics of reloading but also the safety issues, reasons why and why not certain procedures should or should not be done as well as a reloading handout for each participant to take away for future reference. The course covers:

Safety Awareness Case Preparation Case Length Primer Pocket & Neck Cleaning Full Size Verses Neck Size Powder Choice Primer Choice Minimum & Maximum Loads Bullet Seating & Maximum C.O.L Creating Ladder Loads

The next course will be run at The Country Sports Shop premises again on Friday 21/01/2020 at 18:00, the cost of this course is £60 per person, limited to a maximum of six people, there will be opportunity to create cartridges during the course but unfortunately due to insurance restrictions you will not be able to take the loads with you but there is a pack containing hints and tips on reloading.

The Pro-Shooter Firearms Safe Handling Course

This course is designed to offer the non or less experienced shooter an opportunity to go through safe handling, use and shooting of centre fire rifles. Devon & Cornwall are dropping their insistence on mentoring but do want to know that the shooter asking for a centre fire rifle can show some form of competency in handling and shooting of a rifle. We run a course designed with this in mind that covers:

Safety Awareness Bullet Trajectories and Ballistics Types of Bullets and Legal Requirements Safe Backdrops Unsafe Backdrops Shoot Test (either at a range or on shooter permission) Safety Walk (conducted in the field, Ideally on shooters permission)

To express an interest in this course please email shop@thecountrysportshop.co.uk with your details.

Game Butchery Evening

Periodically Phil of GT Orsman Butchers has kindly offered to host an evening of butchery mainly concentrating on carcass preparation and butchering a deer. This evening will be invaluable for anyone that manages deer and is looking to butcher the carcass. Phil will show you how to handle, split, joint and store meat and how to get the most from your deer.

The evenings promise to be informative but will definitely be entertaining, the cost of the evening is just £15 and each person attending will take home some game burgers and sausages, book your place in the shop and further directions will be given as to the address of the venue. To express an interest in this course please email shop@thecountrysportshop.co.uk with your details.