Thread: practical shooting in south canterbury

Originally Posted by kitjunky13

it would be better if more open with the local shooting community .this comes across as a click

So a club that has funded a range from club member funds and efforts is clicky because it is for members only?





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Originally Posted by R93

So a club that has funded a range from club member funds and efforts is clicky because it is for members only?

They got a big chunk of charitable funding based on the claims of creating a publicly accessible rifle range for the local area. (this was the bulk of their funding, iirc)

They also got a heap of support, both with assets and with manpower, from the NZDA branch, on the basis of getting the rifle range up and running for general use asap.

They also pre-sold memberships to rifle shooters under the promise of "pay now, only start your member year when the rifle range is open".

This was several years ago, still no rifle range to my knowledge..

Originally Posted by StrikerNZ

They got a big chunk of charitable funding based on the claims of creating a publicly accessible rifle range for the local area. (this was the bulk of their funding, iirc)

They also got a heap of support, both with assets and with manpower, from the NZDA branch, on the basis of getting the rifle range up and running for general use asap.

They also pre-sold memberships to rifle shooters under the promise of "pay now, only start your member year when the rifle range is open".

This was several years ago, still no rifle range to my knowledge..

Fair enough on some points.

I still don't know of any certified range in NZ that is publically accessible willy nilly?





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Timaru has ALWAYS had funny wee ranges that are club only..the NZDA one in town was .22lr and pistol and the local coppers used it...some thing happened and the coppers moved out to new range at mt horrible as did NZDA.... last time I saw then the local coppers were on another private range closer to cave ...come to think of it the NZDA had another unofficial rifle range just out of pleasant point before all the rules n regs got in the way....pity the one the army used to use for training school kids wasnt kept open.....just down the hill from girls high and across the road,shooting south into the high bluff/bank that now has houses all around it.....they call it progress.