Thread: Long Range Beginner Courses around Auckland?

Learning to shoot long range as a first shooting discipline is a bit like learning to drive in a F1 race car.

While there are actually some benefits to starting from scratch (like not having to unlearn bad habits) it is a much bigger leap then just learning to shoot. Cost of equipment is inordanately more for shooting long range and reloading is a skill learned far more easily once you know you can shoot (When you reload you need to sample test your different loads for accuracy, if you don't have a benchmark of your own skill, or what your minimum accuracy should be, then your tests will be inconclusive and you will have wasted much in the way of time and reloading components). Also there are many purchasing choices to be made where you have to make trade offs, (weight vs accuracy vs expence vs versatility) these choices all come down to personal preference but you will have far better idea what that personal preference is once you have been doing a bit of shooting already, even if it is only at 100m.

Basically as everyone else has said, start off with a .22, anyone with decent skill can consistently hit a gong with a scoped .22 at 200m if they know where to aim.
If you get bored of target shooting with a .22 or if you don't enjoy it, then you will know that the same thing would happen with long range shooting, but you would have saved yourself thousands on dollars.