Welcome to  AFASTPAL.COM

Alberta FireArm Safety Training Possession and Acquisition  Licence

Your Instructor

Hi there, I am Jim Stoetzel, your PAL instructor for the firearms safety courses. I take great pride in providing an excellent training experience to all people. The students I have taught range from a young 12 years old (minimal legal age for course) and seniors looking to be proficient in protecting their farm or acreage from all sorts of predators.

My personal history of handling firearms started when I was 12 years old receiving my first air rifle. My training has encompassed many different disciplines including:

- Skeet and Trap Shooting - Clay birds with shotgun. -

- Precision Rifle shooting - Long distance target shooting.

- I.P.S.C - International Practical Shooting Confederation - IPSC (International Practical Shooting Confederation) is a dynamic shooting sport that tests individual skills in accuracy, speed, and power. It was established to promote, maintain, improve, and advance practical shooting worldwide.   Click here to see an example of this fact action sport. 

In IPSC shooting competitions, participants face varied challenges, and no shooting challenge or time limit may be protested as being prohibitive. The sport balances accuracy, speed, and power, making it an exciting and demanding discipline.

 

- P.P.C. = PPC shooting involves shooting at targets from different distances, under different time constraints and from a variety of shooting positions.

I have been activley involved with the Athabasca Gun club for many years and I presently hold the position of Rifle / Pistol Range Co-ordinator as well as Vice-President positions.

I became a safety officer and a safety officer trainer to help make our range a safer place for everyone to shoot.

It was frustrating for me to see peole have to drive 80 to 100 km to obtain license training. I approached the Alberta Henter Educaton Instructors Assciation about becoming an instructor for the Athabasca area.

I was happy to assist new shooters obtain their licenses. I have since relocated in Leduc where our kids and grandchildren are located so we can enjoy them everyday.

The course I offer is in my opinion one of the best training courses available in the province. My belief is to focus on your training needs and ultimate success. You will see some training centers that seem to stuff as many people through the class and if you pass you pass. If not they are happy to retest you for an additional fee. Our goal is to make you successful on the first attempt.

The quality of our training firearms is second to none. All but one of the training firearms are new with the manufacturer labels still on them. It is important to give you modern firearms for the best training results on firearms you would purchase and use. I find that many trainers use old outdated firearms because cost very little to obtain.