Hi there new to this forum. Any one know who can kindly rent out there farm to do some target shooting for rifle and shot guns.all I need is sight in my rifles. I would pay 200 per hour of using their land also clean up afterwards. Riverhead Range only open Sunday which is not an option for me .Please pm me if anyone can help. Thanks
crikey a box of beer or two should cover it
Jeppers you could come down here for that much but it might be a bit far to travel.
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Originally Posted by cj0819
we have a range from 50 yards out two 2200 so something for everyone:cool:
Geez, cheaper to drive to Taupo for the day and use the range there.
Gold coin donation only.
Sorry Mike. My reply was a bit tongue in cheek. I'm in central otago. Brads would be closer for you.
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Grab a seat?
Holy hell cj...come here for the day and i'll throw in the chance at a deer as well...stay the night...only charge $50 an hour while you sleep...stay awake all night drinking and its free.
That @Spook could work out more expensive than his initial offer ... :thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by Spook
Dvgas is closer to all locations mentioned above and I will pick up your rubbish.:DQuote:
Originally Posted by cj0819
Come to our range for free just bring ya missus:cool:
Thats not free:thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by Neckshot
I don't charge anymore now im just juice:oQuote:
Originally Posted by BRADS
Just spat my Tui all over the computer:ORLY:Quote:
Originally Posted by Neckshot
Best thing you could have done with it.:thumbup:Quote:
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If you get really stuck I could help you out in a small way, maybe one or 2 rifles not the whole safe in one sitting
For that sort of cash you could join the Tokoroa Shooting Sports Complex and do a day run down there when you need to. I take a day off work and take a number of rifles down there for the day sometimes. Nobody there on a week day so you have the whole range to yourself. You can sleep at the clubrooms so you could make it a two day shoot fest if you like.
+1 for Tokoroa, it's a fab setup, concrete sighting in benches for 50m, 100m, 200m (next to the pistol silhouette range) plus covered 100m, 200m range with wooden benches, nice warm large club rooms and tons of parking. Worth the drive - I go there about once a month for the day, great fun !
Do they have a website? I've never heard of this place.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kscott
Are they open 7 days a week and so they only go to 200m?
It's the Tokoroa Shooting Sports Complex, you need to be a member or shoot with a group that has access. Some weekends some ranges are booked out for certain clubs so expect a bit of give and take for range access. Yes it only goes to 200m, most of the range is geared for competition shooting but there's 2 x concrete benches for sighting in just past the pistol silhouette range, which gets a 1st come 1st served basis.
The web says :
Postal Address P O Box 468
Tokoroa
Main Contact Title
Phone (Day) Sandy Curreen
Phone (Evening) 07 8837802
I don't know how up to date that is though, I shoot with a club which books one of the ranges each month.
+1 Fantastic set up.Quote:
Originally Posted by Krameranzac
PM sent. I might have just saved you a packet haha.
Replying 12 years later, but is this still an option for newbies like me with only an Air Rifle?
I Will Take note of this if i find a Kind Farmer who would let me some fun target shooting on their land and some food
With the current status of clubs & ranges regulations in place, you cannot ‘target shoot’ on an unauthorised private shooting area, without it having certification as a range. However, you can do ‘sighting in’. So be careful with the wording of your enquires, and the explanation of your activities, and you will be fine once you’ve found your location.
That being said, the clubs & ranges regulations may not be a thing for much longer, all going well.
Funny how its in the wording. Sighting in? What are you sighting in on...targets, so your shooting at targets, which is basically target shooting. Where I go I just shoot in a different place each time as my interpretation (which my possibly be totally wrong) would be a range would be in a fixed place to be designated a range. I shoot in a paddock not a range.
Should be a rule that it the grass is taller than ankle height it's not a range.Quote:
Originally Posted by blip
Theres no way I'd pay to use a range that had the same shooting conditions/obstacles as found in the paddocks I use.
Yes, it is odd but that’s how the legislation works. Sighting in means shooting at a target, as long as you fiddle with your sights occasionaly you’re adhering to the letter of the law.Quote:
Originally Posted by blip
Unfortunately your interpretation of moving around doesn’t negate you being on an unauthorised ‘range’ if the authorities suspect you’re target shooting, instead of hunting or sighting in. Their definition of a range is anywhere that shooting activities are conducted. The FSA stamped out the interpretation of ‘primary use’ as a farm paddock.
I don’t want to sound like a stickler for rules, (I think it’s all nonsense and can’t wait to see it all repealed) but I’d hate to see any of the fine folk on this forum get stung by the authorities through misunderstanding the rules.
Not trying to start a fight or any thing but what would be the requirements it has to have to be conclusively considered a range?
Permanantly fixed target stands would be the main criteria , I think.
I would of thought there would have to be at least a designated area as well, surely it would have to have some distinguishing features (the fixed targets) and some safety stuff as well.
If you mean, ‘considered a range’ in an approved legal sense? Then it has to be inspected by the clubs & ranges approved inspector, with the necessary fees paid and range standing orders written up.Quote:
Originally Posted by blip
If you mean, ‘considered a range’ in sense that you can be prosecuted for use of an unapproved range; then it doesn’t need to have anything at all. Just a bare paddock. If you are conducting shooting activities that are not sighting in or hunting, then FSA clubs and ranges will consider it an illegal range.
That being said… this part of the legislation may be changing again… maybe
If you want more detail about what it takes to pass the inspection. To have a range approved, talk to @Marty Henry, as he has been through the process.
Meet me just south of Bombay Hills, slip me two hundred and hop the fence! I'll keep watch!