I am 100% behind you regarding safety. I shoot HFT. We have full safety briefings before every competition. We take it very seriously. Even sub 12ft lb rifles can do serious damage as you said. Unfortunately, there are always idiots, but fortunately, most clubs don’t tolerate them. I know mine doesn’t. Wishing you a very happy New Year Terry. 👍
Well said Terry and this post couldn’t have come at a better time. There’s no doubt that plenty of people got an air rifle for Christmas or there’s a lot of people who are new shooters being welcomed into our sport in January. Firearm safety is the first thing that should be taught and the first thing in any shooter’s mind but there’s a right way and a wrong way to educate someone regarding safe handling. Shouting at someone who doesn’t know or hasn’t been taught can scare them out of our sport so it’s all our responsibility to calm the situation down and take some time to show them the safety standards that we, as a responsible shooting community hold ourselves to.
Really like the way he explains the safety is in addition to, not instead of safe handling. Saying it's ok, it's not loaded flys in the face of the first rule of gun safety. Treat EVERY gun as if it is loaded I will share a link to this video with my shooting buddies for sure.
