Tips for first-time shooters...

These are suggestion/tips/best-practices for first time shooters, or for those who shoot on an infrequent basis.

Firearm Safety:
1) Keep the muzzle pointed in a safe direction!

2) Keep your finger off the trigger until you're ready to fire.

3) If the firearm has a mechanical safety, know where it is and how to use it.

Be safe and have fun! =)

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[NITELORD4]

what happens if you decock a gun that is loaded will it discharge or fire?

[OrbitalMechanics]

The general purpose of a de-cocker is to lower the hammer WITH OUT discharging the firearm.

[Jdurfee1082]

It's just good practice not to put ANYTHING in front of the muzzle that you do not want to destroy. Even if if you and everyone else knows its empty. Things happen unexpectedly, so it's just safe practice to treat every firearm as if it were loaded.

[deathcube35]

@NITELORD4

That would've sucked...

[MrVrancu]

2 people shoot themselfs :))

[SanguineCompany]

@ThlxCaRnAgE also you can start shooting now but you will need a parent there and depending on what you want to shoot your parent will have to rent the fire arm unless one is allready owned by said parent

[heykevinb]

thank you sir for taking your time to share this information.

appreciate it!

[masterchief3100]

@ThlxCaRnAgE fair age for children to start shooting is around 10 BUT must be accompanied by a trained personnel to keep an eye on and or the person that is providing the weapon

[ThlxCaRnAgE]

How old do you have to be to go to the shooting range plz reply to me not comments page!!! ...I'm 11 1/2

[TheForestKan]

I've seen new people at the range sweep the muzzle over tons of people, as they are amazed at what a gun can do. Or they turn around and inadvertently point it at almost everyone shooting.

[jb21592]

thanks! this really helps. it's gonna be my first time at the range today and this helps a lot and also helps get rid of some of the nerves...lol

[mpendulomdunyelwa]

I just want to thank you guy by giving us this these tips, I'm sure next week I'll do exactly what you've tip me, next week I'm going to do a shooting .

[Jdurfee1082]

@TheEpisteme I've never seen it happen. I've heard of it. I would definitely agree that you would have to send quite a bit of lead in a relatively short period of time through a handgun to make it happen. But people do weird things, I think there's actually a video of a guy on here that bump fires a beretta 92fs. So yeah it's not going to happen often but it could happen. Kinda like one day the pigs could fly... but probably not.