All courses are applied for at the clubhouse. There is a bulletin board with application sheets for all courses. You leave your name and telephone numbers for whatever courses you want. The instructor calls you when he/she is arranging a course.
All members must take this course. It is an introductory course about range safety and etiquette and the rules about the various ranges at Sharon. It generally takes place as an evening course at the clubhouse and runs about 3 hours. You are a probationary member until you take this course and comply with some other requisites. This means that you cannot come up to the club on your own Mondays through Fridays. You can only come on Saturdays because on Saturdays there are enough range officers and other officials to look after you. When you come off probation you will get a gate and clubhouse card and you will have shown that you are safe and responsible enough to be here on your own through the week. There is no shooting on Sundays.
This involves an evening or half a Sunday classroom session and 6 or more live shooting sessions on the range. You will learn about the safe use of double and single action revolvers and semi-automatic pistols in a bullseye target shooting milieu.
This is an advanced pistol course to prepare you for practical pistol or IPSC competitions. Since the competition scenarios involve reactive defensive simulations, you move from place to place with your gun in your hand, and you generally start each competition stage with your gun in your holster, a great deal more care and attention has to be taken to make sure you are safe and proficient.
It involves a 3 hour classroom session, usually on a Friday evening and about 35 hours of live shooting sessions on the range, such sessions lasting about 3 hours. When you complete this course satifactorily you get a black badge from CPSA Ontario and you are qualified to shoot practical pistol competitions all over the world.
This is the rifle equivalent of the practical pistol course.
This is the shotgun equivalent of the practical pistol course.
You cannot shoot on Range 4 without this course. Shooting on Range 3 at 100 yards is not enough to qualify you to shoot at 200 and 300 meters. Better shooting is required as well as advanced knowledge of trajectory and sight adjustment. This is what our instructors will give you.
This is an organized 200 and 300 meter target shooting sport which requires shooting from different positions in specified time periods. It is a course you take after you qualify on Range 4 so that you will know how to compete.