fandomhigh | Hunting 101 Class 3 -- Tuesday period 5

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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Tell John your experience with guns.

Helen shrugged. "Not much actually. Some with the priests - enough to be a decent shot with targets, but not much else."

"It's not something a lot of people need to know usually," John said. "And that's better than a lot of people."

Re: Firearm experience

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"Sometimes my dad would let me go out and shoot guns on the base," Lois said, shrugging. She didn't do it too often. "Just targets and stuff. I'm not a great aim or anything."

"That still puts you ahead of a lot of people," John told her. "And getting better aim is something that you can achieve with time and effort, if you ever want to."

"At home I carry a gun every day, and have since I was perhaps 13," Romeo said, flatly. "I hit what I aim at."

"Hopefully you show good judgement in what you aim at," John said.

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"Am not knowing what is," Firekeeper shrugged. "So am thinking my experience is none."

"There are other weapons one can use," John said. "But guns do have the advantage of distance."

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You know, there was no way for this to sound good. "I can use a bazooka?" Buffy said. "Oh, and tranquilizer guns."

"Generally bazookas would be considered overkill," John said with a wry smile.

"I've shot pistols and rifles with my dad before," he said. Guy's gotta know how to use the tools if he wants to be safe on the road.

"Good," John said, making a note.

"I don't much like them, but my foster father was a hunter. Borrowed his shotgun a few times."

"Firearms aren't toys," John said seriously. "But there are times when they can be useful. It never hurts to have a little experience just in case."

"I'm a good shot," Wendy replied. "Atomic demoleculiser, crossbow, harpoon gun, I've used a couple of different things."

"I don't know about atomic demoleculisers," John said slowly, "but you can be surprised about what can work in some situations."

"I've used some handguns and rifles," Hannibal said, shrugging. "Shooting cans, hunting, general gun enthusiast sort of thing."

"It's good to have experience," John said. "Just remember that guns are just another tool and one that should be treated responsibly."

"I can use a handgun," Dōjima replied, grinning. "I'm part of the 'Girls and Guns' club on-campus, and I've got a Walther in the storage locker."

"I'll put you down as experienced then," John said with a small grin.

"I've used handguns," he said with a casual shrug. "For nothing more than practice, shooting cans off a fence sort of thing."

"That's good for getting a feel for them," John said.

"I've never used a gun before," said Lion-o. "Most of my training back home involved sword-fighting."

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Momoko was slightly embarrassed when she finally approached Mr Winchester. "Uhm. I have no experience with guns. It's practically illegal to hold one, let alone fire one where I come from.... Except I think you can get a license for some types, but it's really really hard? I've used machines that fire stuff but usually not anything like an actual gun. I wouldn't mind learning, though."