Kungfugerbil wrote:7 a. How the club coach takes his tea (milk, no sugar)
Looks pretty decent. I'm sure without reinventing the entire wheel you could pinch some ideas for content from the NRA probationers book, although that's a slightly different focus.
Probably worth a 'general' or 'tips' section covering things like bringing a notepad and pen to write down scores, which kit used etc, what to do if they have a problem, who to ask for questions etc.
It's daunting being a newbie at a shooting club so that seems like a great project :)
Thanks,
Its currently at 20 pages and will be printed in booklet format.
our club has a 3 week "cooling off period" between a probationer filling out their form and then being allowed to shoot whilst the police are notified of a new member.
We've seen many people drop off probation and never come back after the 3 weeks, despite being reminded.
I think it might be good to send them away with a booklet knowing what they'll be in for and give them a good grounding for whats in store, and what they'll be taught.
it's also an absolute nightmare at the minute because only the Secretary is bringing on probationers as we don't have a set course, so once this booklet is written, I'll move on to writing the checklist that all new members must go through and check off multiple times. so we can at least make sure all new members are proficient in each of the rifles and the way in which the club operates, so theoretically once they become a full member they could teach the next wave - all that would need to be done would be some kind of check session with the secretary at the end of the probation before signing them off and offering full membership.
I don't want to miss anything, but I don't want to make it completely daunting at the same time and scare away those newbies.
It's a fine line between teaching all the ruels so they're safe and legal and scaring them away because there's too many rules... >.<
