Thread: Another practical shooting test for Hunters

Originally Posted by Danger Mouse

Yep, I'm ex RNZE so understand the beauracracy of what is involved.
I've contacted taranaki long range shooters. They seem like they would be open to consider an event like this. I had the impression of them being able to be a host for an event that was already organized. To do an event of that scale would probably need an already established organization to get the resources to make it successful.

Planning, safety staff, range templates, steel targets, RSOs, referees, finance. It would be a big job. NZDA "might" be interested if there was a hunter class. I think the Wellington branch did a biathlon last year?

Nz service rifle would have the skill sets but I haven't seen much interested when I put feelers out at nationals and Auckland events.

Yep, I help TLRS with their bigger competitions. To my knowledge they do not have access to a property big / suitable enough to run an event in the Competition Dynamics style - but TLRS and I have discussed it more than a couple of times. In my experience NZDA will not be interested - GPRE have run a hunter based heptathlon (hiking, observation, first aid, distance estimation, simple map navigation, shooting, flora/fauna ID) with a big prize table and after 5 years of running it we stopped because it simply wasn't supported. I ran a biathlon event with the Ruahine NZDA branch last year... Long Valley Station (Wellington) ran a hunter's biathlon style event a few years ago but i didn't hear about it last year. NZSRA has a skill set but their matches are fairly static...