This Svalbard Rifle course is held in Copenhagen, at the moment on a outdoor shooting range. It is a 3½ -4 hours Rifle course intended  to give proper education in how to safely handle and how to practical shooting  a rifle in Svalbard, with the purpose to achieve permission to rent a rifle when traveling to Svalbard at the local store in Longyearbyen for Polar Bear Protection. 

The course is planned to teach travellers to Svalbard about rifle safety and shooting and maintaince a rifle in Svalbard, for the purpose of getting approval from Sysselmesteren at Svalbard to rent a rifle in Svalbard for Polar Bear protection. 

The Rifle course Svalbard 

• 50 live rounds will be shot by the student with caliber  30.06 
• The Half Loading procedure from Kings Bays Sports where you can rent a rifle in Svalbard, will be used for each series of 4 shots.
• 25 shots from 5 different positions will be fired with Caliber  30.06 (Danish Mandatory Rifle course for rifle hunters)
• Maintain, and fix stocked Mauser Bolt, 
• Exam with 4 shots standing upright and 4 shots kneeling must hit a circle of 30 cm from 35 meters

Besides the Danish mandatory rifle course, including 25 shots from 5 different positions,  a Svalbard oriented rifle shooting lecture will be held.  All shots fired with caliber 30.06 that is the common size rifle in Svalbard for Polar Bear protection.

(This course do not have practically training in using flareguns or other repellant ways to stop or avoid the encountering of Polar Bears when travelling in Svalbard.)

All shots will be fired at a Polar Bear Target

After the course the participant will be able to hit 4 shots out of 4 within a circle of 30 cm

standing upright and kneeling with Caliber 30.06. (If the student can´t hit, more shots must be fired to achieve the demands of successful hits, extra cost of ammunition will be charged)

We will also practice maintenance and how to fix a stocked Mauser Bolt.

After the course, a certificate for passing the course will be given. This you must enclose as documentation for completed weapon course for rifle rent, in relation to Polar Bear protection when sending application to Sysselmesteren in Svalbard for a permit to rent a rifle in Svalbard for Polar bear protection.

Notice that this course do not give you the permission to rent rifle in Svalbard, that is 100% only Sysselmesteren that can grant that, but this course prove that you have proper practice and knowledge off rifle shooting so you can send the application form to Sysselmesteren enclosed certificate from this course as proof for knowledge of using a rifle in Svalbard.