NZ LR Shooting Course 18th Feb 2012

5am and the sound of nickleback ring in my ear, time to get up, get sorted and hit the
road. I headed off to pick up The Claw who stayed in Alex and off we going pointing towards Cromwell. We got a phone call from the land owner at 6am, that would never be a good call I thought just before the shoot, turns out the targets had been set abit close to the cowshed….. I quick call to Gimp, he answered with a f*#king hell and a few more calls to the farmer and it was sorted. A quick stop to pick up Norway, some introductions and again we gassed the Santa Fe in the direction of the Lindas Pass. 8am a quick coffee stop at Omarama and we pushed onto Kurow were we came across a group of doggy looking chaps, some in full camo, some looking ready for battle and all looking keen to get the day started. Gimp was happy he didn’t have to change the target position.
Gimp and Norway headed off to put up the paper targets I had and we followed along like sheep a few minutes later.

The teacher for the day Norway

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In Attendance, shooters Gimp, The Claw, horihunter, outdoorlad, redbang, madjon, kitto, 45South, Kiwi Greg, DAF, ZIGIANI, Blair

We started the course with some weird Norwegian bonding exercises that I think were ment to bring the inner man out of the shooters, this followed by some group hugs which kiwi gregs misses was involved in….. that’s another story.

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The shooting course involved shooting position, rifle position and hold, Spotting, spotter calling, Scope adjustments based on spotters call, Wind and reading wind, along with plenty of other stuff to keep everyone on there toes.
Some tests were done at you own pace, some were timed and involved shooting several shots under the clock. Alot of the tests were aimed at putting the shooter under pressure and sometimes outside there comfort zone.
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The firing line with some one on one shooter position...

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Timed shooting, fire with a 5 sec count down and a second shot directly after........

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Plenty of dust
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Checking targets for hits..... for some this was a rib poking for not hitting the board at all

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An excerise on spotter calling shots and walking the shooter to a target.

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Plenty of rocks to work with, it was the spotters job to talk the shooter into A rock of Norways choice.

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Short barreled 6.5x284s make lots of dust

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Shooter ready

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Shooters and spotters working together

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Gimp trying to perfect the stance

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One on One with Kiwi Greg.... just in case you can't see him he's this side of Norway laying on the ground;)

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We shot a few gongs and generally blasted away for an hour or so and we finished the day with plenty of give aways, thanks to Gunworks, 45 South hunting supplies, Swazi.

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nice write up

Cheers crzyman wish i could have joined in but other obligations. Oh BTW did you know you can download "Nickelblock" so you never have to see/here/read about them again:D

Thanks for the show n tell. Sounds like a great day.

awesome, thanks crzyman. Woulda been good to go over since wasn't far away from home. But was in Ashvegas, im sure I wouldve been healthier if I went shooting

Sounds like a great day!

Good write up Gav looks like a bloody informative day :thumbsup: & Blahahahaha way to go Greg :sarge:

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Good write up Gav looks like a bloody informative day :thumbsup: & Blahahahaha way to go Greg :sarge:

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It was trying to rain & wet jeans really piss me off.............thats my story & I'm sticking to it :D

Good pics Gav, nice reminder of a great day. :thumbsup:

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Originally Posted by crzyman

5am and the sound of nickleback ring in my ear

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A terrible start to any day

Thats a good looking trailer in those photo's

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Thats a good looking trailer in those photo's

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Is it for sale ? ;)

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Is it for sale ? ;)

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What... not likely, that's my best, tow behind the surf when I go to town trailer.:cool:

Thanks for showing up, was humbled to see how some had spent a silly amount of time & effort to show up to what is essentially very basic stuff.
A bit difficut to reel it in as I needed to put people on their ass/ get a common baseline quickly and this was undoubtly a bit uncomfortable, but please consider these points:

Within hours you were shooting/ hitting head sized targets at 7-800 meters (20-30cm targets)
Range didn't really matter...
Your results were achieved regardless of equipment or experience - (for those that didn't have the clicks on the scope we reeled in the range)
Your result had a very palpable improvement
Your fast shooting were almost as good as the slow shooting - when you start thinking too much or hesitate your shooting basicaly detoriates.
All of you now have enough knowledge to guide a new shooter into LR

Most important lessong for the shooting:
Build a strong position
It takes time to learn how to quickly build a strong position
Buid good workload management routines
Take proper notes (very few did this)

Most important lesson for the spotting:
Be curt. By talking too much you might as well kick the shooter - you do nothing but burn his mental capacity and detoriate his shooting.

You all experienced the following by doing it:
LR is simple
Shooters usualy needs btwn 1-2MOA sized target to hit
Gear is convenient but not important

Good to see everyone had a good time and learned a lot. Was anyone impressed with the potential they found in their pride and joy rifle?

I think all of the rifles there were hitting head size targets to around 800 yards during the spotting practice session so should be enough to please their owners...