Thread: Long Range Hunting and F-Class Target Shooting.

@canross, agree with comments and dilemma re time etc. @19Badger maybe elitist was a poor choice of word. The point I was trying to make, perhaps badly, was having been to a member of a couple of NZDA ranges over the years, they seem fixated on the 3/4p courses of fire. Unless perhaps Silhouette is being shot. That's fine and I've participated. However as I've grown older, and crankier, I am less and less inclined to lower my old carcass to the ground. Actually its not the going down or even being uncomfortably prone as much as the getting up again lol.

Maybe it's just a young person's game after all. And yet I can shoot offhand and off sticks as much as I want. There are no courses of fire being offered that allow me to participate in that way. I would love to move from sub 200m to competency at 300+ The range days offered however are base on 3/4p shooting only. And with a range open only on weekends there are no flexi hours available for individual shooters or small groups doing their particular thing.

My solution is simply to go off on my own to a private bit of land whenever I can. I would prefer to shoot in a club with others. I keep running into folk who likewise eschew their local clubs simply because of the rigid insistence on the traditions of 3/4p shooting. Anyway enough. The problem will go away in a few years lol