When I took it, I'd been hunting for probably a decade already, and around guns and shooting all my life, the class was an eight hour waste of time. I did not learn a single thing, other than that 96% of Nevada is public property, and only 1.7% of Kansas is publicly owned, and what T.R.E.A.D. lightly stood for, which I can't remember now, but the rest of the class is common sense, for guys like me at least. Nowadays, the classes are designed for city guys who don't know a thing about hunting or guns. In my class, the instructor had me hold up a 870 wingmaster and point to different parts, so the class could say what I was pointing at, he tried to throw a monkey in the wrench and told me to point to the chamber (figuring I'd point in the breech and people would say that was the chamber, tricky guy huh) so I half stripped the 870 and pulled off the barrel, and pointed in the chamber, kinda got his goat. If your dad ever did anything with you with a gun, then you already know more than that class could teach you, but a buddy of mine who is about as city as they come said he learned a ton about guns and hunting from the class, a lot of things went unsaid <img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle>. I'm sure the class does a good job of teaching guys like him not to shoot eachother crossing fences and getting in and out of trucks, and it teaches someone who's never touched a gun what the muzzle is, but it's a bit too basic for someone who has ever handled a gun with some sort of supervision.

BTW, the &quot;shoot or don't shoot&quot; movies were absolutely hilarious...

Screw the 10 ring, keep them in the zero!!!