Hunting 101 Class 3 -- Wednesday Period 7

[demons-death.livejournal.com]

When the students entered, they saw John sitting at his desk and two tables set out at the front of the room. One holds the sign in sheet and a pile of handouts. The other holds a number of curious items.

John waited until all his students had filed in and taken their seats.

"So last week you faced your first senario with a ghost. Nobody managed to get themselves killed and everyone eventually managed to take out the ghost." He leaned back on his desk. "Even more impressive, no one took out the house as well. Two things it's always good to remember: don't burn down a house while you're still in it. And ghosts can turn incorporeal at will. You can't set them on fire."

John pushed away from his desk and went over to a side table where a number of items were laid out. "There are however a few things that you can use when fighting a ghost that actually do more harm to them than to you. Iron temporarily disrupts a ghost's energy. Anything you can find that's iron -- some crowbars, fireplace pokers, cast iron frying pans -- " John had examples of each of these and held them up in turn, "can be used as a weapon against a spirit."

He the frying pan down and moved down the table where he picked up a salt shaker. "Salt is probably one of the most versatile weapons a hunter can have. Salt circles can be used for protection against not only ghosts but demons and some other evil entities." He put the shaker down and picked up a small crystal. "Salt can also be used offensively and rock salt such as this is the easiest to handle. It disrupts a ghost's energy much the same way iron does. Rock salt pieces like this or some larger, can be thrown, either by hand or using a weapon such as a sling shot." He moved down the table a little bit more to where there was a pile of much smaller crystals. "Smaller crystals such as these can be useful as well, when packed into shotgun shells." He picked up such a cartridge also sitting on the table. "You've heard of buckshot?" John grinned. "Well this is ghostshot.

"And it's not something you can just buy from any sporting goods store. You have to make it yourself." John handwavily demonstrated how to load shotgun cartridges with rock salt, explaining how as he went. When he was done he headed back over to his desk. "All the information we've discussed is covered in the handout you took at the beginning of class, including a list of steps in how to reload shotgun shells. Feel free to come up and examine everything, and try your hand at making rocksalt cartridges. Also I'd like to know how much experience and how comfortable each of you is with firearms, so I can set up balanced groups for next week's practical."



[OOC: wait for OCDs are up! Have at it! :)]

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Firearm experience

[demons-death.livejournal.com]

Tell John your experience with guns.

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[iftheseshadows.livejournal.com]

Neil blanched, even though he'd spoken with Mr. Winchester at the beginning of the semester. He tried slunk down in his chair and tried to be as discreet as possible as he dodged the question.

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[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

"I've never used anything like this before," Sokka volunteered. The little matter of whether he'd even known that guns like this existed? Not gonna mention that.

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[demons-death.livejournal.com]

"I'll try and run a possibly handwaved tutorial session at the shooting range, if you'd like to try them out before next class," John offered.

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[apocalypsesoon.livejournal.com]

"Very."

John then gave an abbreviated list of small and heavy arms he was familiar with. INcluding Nerf and Airsoft and slingshot.

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[demons-death.livejournal.com]

John nodded. "Generally there's not a lot of call for nerf guns in ghost hunting."

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[surferboy-09er.livejournal.com]

"I've used handguns and shotguns before." says Dick "Mostly at the firing range but I've been hunting before with my dad."

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[demons-death.livejournal.com]

"That's a good basis," John said. "Looking at it a certain way, this is really just hunting a little more dangerous quarry."

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[wannabehunter]

Jo cheerfully rattled off the list of firearms she was familiar with.

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[demons-death.livejournal.com]

"And your mother lets you practice all of those?" John asked with a wry smile.

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[narglette.livejournal.com]

Luna looked at her professor expectantly for a long time before she spoke.

Possibly long enough for discomfort.

And when she did open her mouth all that came out was a mildly curious, "Jazz Hands Fire Arms?"

Re: Firearm experience

[demons-death.livejournal.com]

John suppressed a sigh. "I'll put you down as a novice, shall I?"

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[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

"Handguns, shotguns, and the occasional outer space weapon," Parker said. "I've been shooting for the last six years."

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[demons-death.livejournal.com]

John smiled. "Sounds like I don't have to worry about you being able to handle yourself around guns."

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[1ordinarygirl.livejournal.com]

"Merrick said guns usually just makes evil things mad," Buffy announced, giving John an expectant look.

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[demons-death.livejournal.com]

"You need to use the right weapon and the right ammunition," John said.

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[cantjossme.livejournal.com]

Mel looked at John with a confused expression on her face.

"What's a shotgun?"

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[sonofdragons.livejournal.com]

"I had a BB rifle as a kid," Tannim said.

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[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

"My...partner was the gun expert," Setsuna admitted, biting her lip, feeling that sort of uncomfortable lack of experience she always got in Spy Tech. "I've always used swords..."

...God, that sounded lame. Swords? Who the hell uses swords anymore? Her, obviously, but...

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[pyroliz.livejournal.com]

"I haven't had any experience with firearms yet," Liz replied rather awkwardly.

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[neurotic-witch.livejournal.com]

Chris looked sheepish.

"No experience with guns," he admitted.

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[alchemic-bean.livejournal.com]

"I've had some basic training with a military-issue handgun, but that's the extent of it for hand-held weaponry. I'm decently familiar with cannons and gattling guns." Edward scratched his nose. "Demons or ghouls or not, I'm more of a close-combat kinda guy."

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[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Unfortunately my experience with guns is pretty much non-existent," Isabel admitted.

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[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

Blair frowned a little. "Pip taught me how to load and fire a gun."

He wasn't really happy about that.

Re: Firearm experience

[blessed_twice]

"Just toy guns, nothing real," Wyatt said. "But I'm a fast learner."