{"id":2020,"date":"2012-11-22T18:06:34","date_gmt":"2012-11-22T16:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=2020"},"modified":"2012-11-22T14:25:25","modified_gmt":"2012-11-22T12:25:25","slug":"even-more-dedicated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=2020","title":{"rendered":"Even More Dedicated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/chasa-small-redacted1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2023\" title=\"chasa-small-redacted\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/chasa-small-redacted1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"436\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/chasa-small-redacted1.jpg 436w, http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/chasa-small-redacted1-218x300.jpg 218w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 436px) 100vw, 436px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My Dedicated Hunter certificate came today. To get this, I actually had to study &#8212; there&#8217;s a test on animals and habitats and ethics and all kinds of stuff, there&#8217;s also a shooting test (Impala target at 100m sitting, 200m prone, 50m standing, three shots at each distance).<\/p>\n<p>I am now a Dedicated Hunter, Dedicated Collector and Dedicated Sport Shooter in terms of the Firearms Control Act.<\/p>\n<p>Now I can apply for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chuckhawks.com\/300Win_Mag.htm\">300 Winchester Magnum<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Howa_M1500\">Howa 1500<\/a> I bought a few months ago.<span hidden class=\"__iawmlf-post-loop-links\" data-iawmlf-links=\"[{&quot;id&quot;:923,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.chuckhawks.com\\\/300Win_Mag.htm&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260531003104\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.chuckhawks.com\\\/300Win_Mag.htm&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.chuckhawks.com\\\/300Win_Mag.htm&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-31 11:00:25&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-06 14:19:56&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-11 11:30:47&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-15 04:00:33&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-15 04:00:33&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:924,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Howa_M1500&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20251231205247\\\/https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Howa_M1500&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-30 23:54:40&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-11 11:30:48&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-15 04:00:31&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-15 04:00:31&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Dedicated Hunter certificate came today. To get this, I actually had to study &#8212; there&#8217;s a test on animals and habitats and ethics and all kinds of stuff, there&#8217;s also a shooting test (Impala target at 100m sitting, 200m prone, 50m standing, three shots at each distance). I am now a Dedicated Hunter, Dedicated Collector and Dedicated Sport Shooter in terms of the Firearms Control Act. Now I can apply for the 300 Winchester Magnum Howa 1500 I bought a few months ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2020"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2024,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020\/revisions\/2024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}