Course Information

NA Course ID: S1449 No. Instruction Hours: 8 Course Description: All USGS personnel must attend an 8-hour USGS Firearms Refresher course every year they intend to use a firearm, after having completed the USGS 24-hour Basic, Firearms Safety course. The 8-hour refresher course focuses on the use of handguns, rifles, and shotguns against potentially dangerous wild animals and emphasizes firearms safety and safe and effective firearms handling. Participants will review safe firearm manipulation, regulations governing firearms use and transportation, mental conditioning for personal defense and studies of wild animal/human encounters will be revisited as a basis for understanding how to avoid dangerous encounters. Each student must shoot a minimum 70% score on a static target in a timed test in order to qualify with the firearm type she/he chooses to carry in the field and pass a written exam. To register for this training log into DOI LEARN at http://doilearn.doi.gov, click Course Catalog, then click on Catalog, type in 1st couple words of the course title, & click search. DOI LEARN questions, please contact Leigh Healy at lhealy@usgs.gov for assistance. Course Title: Firearms - Refresher Training Attendees: Remember that this course is a "demonstration of your ability" and to re-quality with sate and competent handling and shooting of firearms in order to be authorized to carry firearms in the field. Course Discipline: Safety Courses Prerequisites: Completion of course S1448, Firearms-Basic Defense Against Wild Anaimals Course Developer: W. Karl Gross Course Tuition: No Tuition Course Cancellation: Additional Information: Carpooling, Lodging, Nominations, and more for Denver Courses. If course is not held in Denver, please contact the "Point of Contact" (listed in e-mail announcement for course and on Lotus Bulletin Board announcement for course) for lodging and transportation information.

Scheduled Class Dates

[Description of "Status" definitions: Cancelled 1 = Class was cancelled by the course coordinator due to low registrations; Cancelled 2 = Class was cancelled by the course coordinator for other reasons; Closed Slots = Registration deadline date has occurred, please check with the NTC for possible availability; Closed & Held = Class meet the minimum number of registrations and was held; Full = Maximum number of registrations has been received, the class is a "GO", any additional registrations will be waitlisted; N/A = Registration is being accepted via another source other than OED-NTC, please check course announcement for details; Open = Class is open for registration via DOI LEARN; Pending = Additional class information is required from the course coordinator before the class can be advertised. For assistance please check with Gloria Armstrong at gjarmstr@usgs.gov or (303) 445-4676.]

Start Date Memo Num Location Status Coordinator 03/27/2007 Morgan Hill, CA Closed 03/25/2008 Morgan Hill, CA Closed and Held 03/31/2008 Morgan Hill, CA Closed and Held