Chapter 10: Safe Hunting Skills
Objectives

(Review this chapter before attending your skills class.)

• Demonstrate or explain the five primary rules of firearm safety.
• List the two main causes of hunting-related shooting incidents (HRSIs) in Pennsylvania.
• Demonstrate or explain how to identify and clear an obstruction from the barrel of a firearm.
• Correctly match types of ammunition to their respective caliber or gauge.
• Demonstrate or explain proper loading and unloading of three separate firearms using “dummy” ammunition.
• Demonstrate or explain four of the six safe-carry positions for firearms while in the field individually or in a group.
• Demonstrate or explain how to safely cross an obstacle or hazardous terrain with and without a partner.
• Demonstrate or explain how to make safe shot selections when presented with safe/unsafe and/or ethical/unethical shot opportunities.
• Demonstrate or explain knowledge about zone-of-fire while walking two or three abreast.

Review this chapter before attending your skills class.