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NRA Questions
True or False
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Sometimes a license is required to hunt game animals. | False |
| Tracks, droppings, feathers, shed antlers, trampled or browsed vegetation is evidence that a particular species is in the area. | True |
| Ruminants are usually classified as either browsers or grazers although some do both. | True |
| Horns appear on sheep and goats by the time they are six months old and are never shed. | True |
| Ruminants have upper front teeth and a tough pad against which the lower front teeth close. | False |
| Elk will move from open grassy slopes to heavy timber to rest during the day or to seek shelter during a storm. | True |
| You may use the telescopic sight on a firearm as a substitute for binoculars to identify wildlife for certain species. | False |
| In winter, male ducks display bright, breeding plumage, and they are unique and distinctive. | False |
| All wild ungulates classed as small game in North America are cloven-hooved. | False |
| Fall is a particularly good time to practice identifying waterfowl | False |
| Horns are formed by a sheath of hard, fibrous material developing over a core of solid bone on the skull. | True |
| Shedding of antlers is caused by a change which weakens the area supporting the antlers. | True |
| . Each kind of wildlife requires a particular kind of place in which to live, a special “habitat” in which to survive. | True |
| Cloven-hoofed means that the front hoof only is split into two parts. | False |
| Hunting laws require a hunter to accurately identify his quarry. | True |
| Ground squirrels and magpies are examples of animals which are neither game species nor “protected” wildlife and maybe be legally hunted without a license. | True |
| Cud-chewers or ruminants is another name for cloven-hoofed ungulates. | True |
| Ungulates are divided into three major divisions, the horned animals and the antlered animals and the antlerless | False |
| History books credit the ancient Chinese with making the first explosive powder | True |
| The matchlock got its name because a match ignited the powder to set off the charge | True |
| The first “match” was a twisted rope of hemp which had been soaked in a solution of saltpeter and wine. | True |
| After the match was invented the shooter fired his gun by touching the powder with a red hot wire or a glowing coal. | False |
| A serpentine was a simple s-shaped piece of metal fastened to a matchlock which held the smoldering match in one curve, away from the priming powder. | True |
| An S-shaped piece of metal called a serpentine was the second trigger. | False |
| Weather was the worst problem that the matchlock had. | True |
| The wheel-lock was the next firearm after the matchlock. | True |
| The wheel-lock was a mechanism wound against the tension of a weak spring. | False |
| The wheel-lock was an expensive and complicated mechanism. | True |
| The wheel-lock was slow because the wheel had to be rewound after each shot before the gun could be loaded and primed and ready to fire again. | True |
| The flintlock had a more practical ignition mechanism. | True |
| The flintlock was simplicity itself, producing its spark by striking flint against steel. | True |
| . A powder was discovered in the early 1800’s that would explode when struck a hard blow and new means of ignition was invented. | True |
| A cartridge is a container or case made of aluminum or cardboard which combines the ignition system, the propellant and the projectile into a single unit | False |
| Every gun has four major sections. | False |
| The stock assembly is the handle of the firearm. | True |
| . The action assembly is the heart of the firearm. | True |
| Lands and grooves together make up the rifling of rifles and pistols. | True |
| Rifling makes the bullet spin as it enters the gun so it will be more stable in flight. | False |
| Rifling will not give the bullet greater accuracy. | False |
| The caliber of rifles and pistols is the inside diameter of the barrel before the rifling has been cut. | True |
| Shotgun barrels are classified by caliber instead of gauge. | False |
| Gauge is determined by the number of lead balls that weigh one pound. | True |
| A sight is a device used to aim the firearm. | True |
| Open, aperture and scope are the three basic types of firearm sights. | True |
| Rifles may have any of the three basic types of sights, but a handgun usually has open sights. | True |
| The open sight is more accurate than the peep sight. | False |
| There are six basic types of firearm actions. | True |
| A bolt action firearm operates on a lift, pull and push sequence similar to a door bolt and even looks very similar. | True |
| The pump action firearm is sometimes called a “slide” or “trombone” action. | True |
| Some revolvers have cylinders which cannot be swung out or lifted up and must be loaded and unloaded through a loading gate on the side. | True |
| Shotgun ammunition consists of five components. | True |
| The “bullet” is the projectile that is shot from a shotgun. | False |
| The “shot” is the projectile fired from a rifle or pistol. | False |
| The shot may be a single piece of lead or a number of lead pellets combined in one charge. | True |
| Target bullets often have solid points which make a small hole because they do not expand. | True |
| For the beginning shooter, a rifle or shotgun that is loaded with a single shell or cartridge is the best and safest choice. | True |
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