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Real exam questions and answers for the canadian firearms safety course (cfsc), covering topics such as firearm actions, ballistics, safety procedures, and parts of a firearm. It is a valuable resource for individuals preparing for the cfsc exam.
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What are the 5 non-restricted firearms? - Answer: 1. Bolt
Follow Through - Answer: Maintaining sight picture throughout the shot. Misfire - Answer: Firing pin strikes primer, but does not set off the cartridge. How long should you wait in the event of a misfire? - Answer: 60 seconds The most common types of firearm sights are? - Answer: Open sights, Aperture sights, Telescopic sights, Red-dot sights. Never use what type of sight to identify a target. - Answer: Never use a Telescopic Sight to identify a target. What is a Sight Picture. - Answer: When all 3 components line up: front sight, rear sight, target. Which sight must be in focus for a good shot. - Answer: All three must line up with the front sight in focus. What is the most common sight? - Answer: Open sight. Where should ammunition be kept? - Answer: In a cool, dry, well ventilated area. What accounts for the majority of the roughly 1300 firearms deaths each year? - Answer: Suicide 80%
What are the three major components of Unrestricted firearms? - Answer: 1. The Action 2.The Barrel 3.The Stock ABS Describe the Action. - Answer: The Action is where the ammunition, is loaded, chambered, fired, extracted, and ejected. LOADS, FIRES, UNLOADS. Describe the Barrel. - Answer: The tube within which the projectile travels while gaining speed after the cartridge is fired. Describe the Stock. - Answer: Is the body of the firearm that the Barrel and Action sit in. Restricted Firearms have a Grip in leu of Stock. - Answer: B.A.G. = Barrel, Action, Grip What are the 4 restricted firearms actions? - Answer: 1.Single Action Revolver 2.Double Action Revolver 3.Single Action Semi-Automatic 4.Double Action Semi-Automatic
What are the 5 non-restricted firearms actions? - Answer: 1.Bolt 2.Pump Action 3.Lever 4.Break 5.Semi-Automatic Regardless of the type of firearm, you'll learn the following: - Answer: 1. How to be safe 2.How to load and unload 3.Common shooting positions. What are the important parts of the firearms? - Answer: 1. Muzzle
What is the Breach? - Answer: The rear part of the firearm behind the Barrel that permits the insertion of the projectile. What is the Stock? - Answer: The base of the firearm that the barrel and action rest in. What is the Butt? - Answer: The thicker, or blunt end of the Stock. What is the Grip? - Answer: The part of the firearm that is held by the shooters dominant hand. What is the Cylinder? - Answer: The rotating chamber of the revolver that holds the cartridges. What is the Loading Port? - Answer: Allows access to the chambers of the revolver that does not have a swing out cylinder. What is the Safety? - Answer: A lock on the firearm preventing accidental firing. What is the Magazine? - Answer: Is anything that holds/ ammunition. What are the 2 types of Magazines? - Answer: 1. Box
Describe a Box Magazine. - Answer: Simple to load - One round at a type or with a clip. Describe a Tubular Magazine. - Answer: Designed to be loaded one round in front of the other. Extra Caution should be demonstrated as a round could be ignited by the one in front by any inadvertent jogging. Only use what type of ammunition in tubular magazines? - Answer: Only use round nose ammunition in tubular magazines. Where is the chamber of a bolt action rifle located? - Answer: In the barrel. What is meant by the color red being displayed on the safety? - Answer: The firearm is HOT. (ready to fire) How do you check to confirm that you're using the correct ammunition for the firearm in use? - Answer: Check the data stamp on firearm against the head stamp on the ammunition to ensure use of correct ammunition. Describe a pump action. - Answer: Operated manually by pumping the front grip back and forth in order to eject and chamber cartridges. Describe a lever action. - Answer: Operated manually where a lever is located around the trigger guard area to allow for the loading and unloading of cartridges.
Describe the Bolt Action. - Answer: Operated manually by the opening and closing of the action attached to a bolt. Half-cock is only used as a Safety mechanism on which type of Revolver? - Answer: Single-Action Revolver only. What two actions does pulling the trigger on a double action revolver do? - Answer: Cocks, and releases the hammer to fire. How many thumbs are used when lowering the hammer either into neutral or into half cock? - Answer: two thumbs are used to place the hammer into neutral or into half-cock position. Typical external features on a Double Action Revolver include what? - Answer: 1. cylinder release button
When shooting is complete, or cease fire called. - Answer: Firearm is to be unloaded and Action clearly locked open. When unloading a Semi-Automatic firearm with a detachable magazine, always do what? - Answer: Remove the Magazine, and then operate the Action. What is black powder composed of? - Answer: 1. Sulfur 2.Charcoal
Describe a Semi Wadcutter (SWC). - Answer: An SWC combines features of the Wadcutter and traditional round nosed revolver bullets. Less problems feeding from magazines due to a more rounded front end. Where are Data stamps typically located on the firearm? - Answer: 1. Barrel or,
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