I would be personally a bit hacked off if my local firearms licensing department responded to my new land authority with a request that I go and shoot with someone else.
Firstly not all shooters are good guys, just type in mentor into a search engine to see stories aplenty of parochial,wizened old goats dictating to the other party how often they can go out and how long they will have to wait before they would even start to think about "signing them off".
Don't think being back doored is off the table either, plenty of shooters out there will happily get their feet under the table of your shooting permission.
I wouldn't be willing to accept a closed ticket with one named rifle for sporting purposes if I were in the position you were in.
Also if you don't have them already, make sure you have sound moderators for all your rifles.
It might be necessary for you to use a .22 centrefire on rabbits and ground game, so don't bracket yourself in by expecting just to use rimfires.
What I would do as a matter of priority would be to join an association that would insure and represent me, and then get something in writing to the FLD asking them where the risk is in granting you the flexibility on your ticket that you've requested.
If they continually get away with slapping conditions on people who are experienced rifle shots then they will tar everybody with the same brush and before you know it we will be paying to do basc courses with refresher training every other year just to maintain an FAC with an authority to shoot rabbits/ground game.
Don't just take my word for it, I guarantee there will be another dozen people thinking what I've just pointed out, people who have been through the system and refuse to be 'yes' men.
And this is how it is with West Yorks.
hopefully, I'm just awaiting their response to my messages.
