Hunter Safety Chapter 3

Good marksmanship is...

• Being able to hit your target at least 50% of the time

• Correctly marking your target

• Being a good sport if you miss your target

• Hitting your target accurately and consistently

Lining up the rear and fronts sights is called...

• Sight alignment

• Good marksmanship

• Sighting in

• Firing position

To help steady your firearm when you are shooting, take in a deep breath and...

• Exhale all of it

• Exhale about half of it

• Hold your breath until you shoot

• Pull the trigger

Which shooting position is the steadiest for shooting a rifle?

• Prone

• Standing

• Sitting

• Kneeling

Which shotgun-shooting technique is best for a beginning hunter and is performed by pointing at a moving target, and then moving past it and firing?

• Snap Shooting

• Swing Through

• Sustained Lead

• Patterning

A common error when hunting birds with a shotgun is...

• Tapping the trigger and not squeezing it slowly

• Bringing the stock all the way up to the cheek without lowering the head

• Lowering the head and cheek to the stock of the shotgun

• Failing to align the sights on the target properly and then take a deep breath

All handguns should be fired at _ length.

• Body

• Arm's

• Barrel's

• Target

Which choke should be used for hunting small, fast, close birds like dove and quail?

• Cylinder

• Full

• Extra Full (Turkey)

• Modified