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    Where can i shoot this in Christchurch? Can i turn up to a club day/practice shoot with my stock standard 300wsm with a capable scope to get to 1000m, harris bipod and rear bag and shoot to see if i like it?

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    Perazzi, pretty much yes. Most of the clubs take a break over winter, and the serious season starts around Sept.

    Welcome to the NRA NZ | National Rifle Association of New Zealand has all the club contact details, @Cyclops and his son shoot in CHC, have a chat to him

    FTR is 308 or 223 only, so 300wsm will put you in F-Open.

    We generally shoot yards not meters, from 300yds to 1000yds.

    The only issue I can think of is if you have a loundner/brake on the rifle. It causes problems for other folk on the line, so not allowed, but check with the local club to be sure. Suppressors are fine.
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    Na don't have a break or suppressor. Ok will look into it thanks

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    Quote Originally Posted by PerazziSC3 View Post
    Where can i shoot this in Christchurch? Can i turn up to a club day/practice shoot with my stock standard 300wsm with a capable scope to get to 1000m, harris bipod and rear bag and shoot to see if i like it?
    Its probable that the club wont let you shoot 1000yds straight off due to cone of fire/regs. So you turn up for a 300yds (or maybe 500yds) to prove you can shoot and then extend the range in 100yds increments.
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    @ebf, i started f class in 2008 i think and it had been going a few years already then. i would guess 2004 or even earlier.

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    Quote Originally Posted by steven View Post
    Its probable that the club wont let you shoot 1000yds straight off due to cone of fire/regs. So you turn up for a 300yds (or maybe 500yds) to prove you can shoot and then extend the range in 100yds increments.
    Perazzi the fullbore outdoor season is pretty much over. It will resume again from August.
    There are three clubs that shoot in the greater Christchurch area, Malvern Rifle Club, Christchurch Rifle Club and Ashburton District Rifle Club.

    They accept new shooters with firearms licences. All have club rifles that can be used.
    A club member supervised my son while he shot until I got my licence.

    Ashburton and Malvern have active FB pages.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hades View Post
    Why the hell not? There isn't a golden ticket or lucrative membership hazing.

    I had the Secretary's rear bag and shooting mat and the President laying next to me reading the wind at Cheltenham during my first shoot. I brought along my $600 Marlin and factory Corelokt rounds, shooting off a Chinese bi-pod and not one shit was given. Even surprised myself with a couple of V's. Spent the rest of the afternoon chatting to F, F/tr and FO shooters, all willing to share knowledge.

    didn't mean it like that, more of a personal thing I guess especially when these are people you don't know and are all dealing with firearms! l.. I don't doubt that clubs are helpful for new shooters and stuff, its just stink that there is little publicity or more of an effort to get people into the sport. if they ran a hunter class????

    at the mo I have occasional access to a farm which we can scrape 950 metres on a bit of steel, but if worst comes to worst then I would probably try trentham!
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    Cheltenham runs a hunters class on occasion and also invites the local DeerStalkers to stretch their legs from time to time.

    Remember that the majority of the club members (from my experience) are over 50 and have not heard of or use Facetube or Youbook. Modern forms of publicity will catch up when modern people make it accessible. The old school way of finding info is to talk to someone. That would work spectacularly in this situation.
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    Quote Originally Posted by lost View Post
    Exactly that reason.. Something along the lines of there were contracted divers in the water at the time, but outside of the red zone. Who then alerted the police, and so forth..

    Awesome range that one, tricky winds off the coast too!
    gutted bro!! one morning we went to check if there were any boats in the red zone, there was one further out which was a bit nervy but ok. thought we should head closer to the cliff and check nobody was in close to shore....... there was a boat right in the red zone, dead straight in line with the targets. a chap had to head home to call up the boaties with on his radio.

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    Quote Originally Posted by stuart165 View Post
    @ebf, i started f class in 2008 i think and it had been going a few years already then. i would guess 2004 or even earlier.
    Quite a bit earlier in fact. The person largely responsible for getting things going was Andre Doyle who was an Army ? sniper instructor at the time. I remember him shooting a suppressed .260 at Trentham. Tracy Short had a good go at one point- threw a few resources at the problem but sure got the results

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    Andre is still around, dropped off some stuff with him this morning He is also the driving force behind electronic targets...

    He is now shooting TR with an outrigger sight system. Part of the Palma team off to the States next month.
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    Andre Doyle is currently the President of Petone Rifle club at Trentham (my club), I think he has 'retired" from the NRA side of things and yes we run 5 electronic targets.

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    The late Tony Loughnan (google to see his engineering achievements) was probably one of the main proponents of electronic targets within the NRA. Somewhere I saw a report of his including his opinion that for the ongoing future of the organisation it was essential that electronic targets became widely introduced. From memory he also put forward things like the analysis of the accuracy of electronics systems versus manual marking. The electronic system, in his opinion was the most accurate - something I would agree with considering the some of the dodgy marking I have experienced in the past.

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    Electronic targets are the way to go, I lost quite a few points shooting full bore with a .223 even the .308's can be hard to find had them slip down the spotter's dowel pin with out leaving a trace, electronic's stop all that.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cyclops View Post
    Perazzi the fullbore outdoor season is pretty much over. It will resume again from August.
    There are three clubs that shoot in the greater Christchurch area, Malvern Rifle Club, Christchurch Rifle Club and Ashburton District Rifle Club.

    They accept new shooters with firearms licences. All have club rifles that can be used.
    A club member supervised my son while he shot until I got my licence.

    Ashburton and Malvern have active FB pages.
    mite have to give this a crack
    although have spent too much on guns lately so maybe i shouldnt
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