Prepare sporting aids and equipment to support game-shooting activities
URN: LANGa1
Business Sectors (Suites): Game and Wildlife Management
Developed by: Lantra
Approved on:
2022
Overview
This standard is about preparing sporting aids and equipment to support game-shooting activities. It relates to the activities that you undertake leading up to shoot days in a wildlife management area, including equipment and facility preparation.
This standard is for those who work in game and can be applied to any area of land used for game shooting.
To meet this standard you will be able to:
• prepare shoot areas and equipment for use on the shoot day
Your work must comply with all current legal requirements and codes of practice. when carrying out this activity.
For you to fully understand the content of the standard, and the activities, it is important that you are able to understand the terms used within the standard. See the Glossary for some definitions that should help you with this.
Performance criteria
You must be able to:
- carry out all preparation activities safely, in line with the game-shooting programme and the relevant health and safety requirements
- dress to provide protection from environmental conditions and to meet required dress codes
- prepare game transport and storage so that it is in a hygienic condition suitable for receiving dead game
- ensure all transport is in a safe operating condition
- prepare sporting aids and equipment to effectively support planned game-shooting activities
- establish gun stands accurately according to the requirements of the game-shooting programme
- prepare access points according to the needs of the game-shooting programme
- maintain accurate records according to the relevant organisational and legal requirements
Knowledge and Understanding
You need to know and understand:
- the relevant health and safety requirements associated with preparing for shoot day activities
- the relevant legal requirements (including those that are nation-specific) pertaining to game-shooting activities
- the purpose and requirements of the game-shooting programme
- the appropriate shooting dress codes to suit shooting activities
- the sporting aids and equipment used to support game-shooting activities and how to prepare them
- the legal requirements controlling the storage, transportation and carriage of firearms and ammunition
- the relevant legal restrictions controlling the ownership and use of firearms
- the checks that need to be made to firearms and ammunition for use
- the current legislation and codes of practice regarding the use of different types of ammunition
- the appropriate ammunition for the shoot and the wildlife management area
- how the positioning of gun stands can impact on safety on shoot days
Scope/range
Prepare sporting aids and shooting areas to support game-shooting activities for two of the following:
• driven game
• walked-up game
• flighted wildfowl
• decoying
Scope Performance
Scope Knowledge
Values
Behaviours
Skills
Glossary
Game-shooting activities – any legal field sport involving the hunting of game with a firearm
Wildlife management area – any area of land used for the provision of game-shooting activities
Gun – a participant in a shooting activity
Game – any legal quarry species in the nation in which the shoot takes place. The legal restrictions for shooting “small game” differs in each of the four UK nations and should be checked with the relevant national authority.
Sporting aids and equipment:
• flags
• sticks
• sewelling
• communication equipment
• binoculars
• firearms
National authority controlling shooting activities:
• England – DEFRA
• Northern Ireland – NI Environment Agency
• Scotland – NatureScot
• Wales – Natural Resources Wales
Links To Other NOS
External Links
Version Number
3
Indicative Review Date
2027
Validity
Current
Status
Original
Originating Organisation
Lantra
Original URN
LANGa1
Relevant Occupations
Estate Worker, Gamekeeper
SOC Code
5119
Keywords
game; shooting; beating; picking-up