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    Quote Originally Posted by mikee View Post
    I gave my B away after 20 years mainly cause I got bored with having to go to the range.
    Shot IPSC and 3 Gun for most of that time too. Found even 12 visits became a chore to fit in round work and life and towards the end was just "going thru the motions" to keep the B.
    But that's the thing and the point of it. You're meant to be an active pistol shooter to have your b licence, not just having it so you can have it and feel like going to the range is a burden, you're meant to be excited to go to the range.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jexla View Post
    But that's the thing and the point of it. You're meant to be an active pistol shooter to have your b licence, not just having it so you can have it and feel like going to the range is a burden, you're meant to be excited to go to the range.
    Totally agree.

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    Quote Originally Posted by R93 View Post
    Once you have obtained your endorsement it does get substantially easier to maintain it.

    I do believe in extra vetting and a standdown period but if you are fit and proper to hold a FA licence in the first place you should be fit and proper to hold any endorsement if they have done their job right.
    Security requirements aside I can see a lot of taxpayers money being saved by cutting some of the red tape and leaving some things at PNZ and club level.
    I agree at club level, not so much PNZ.

    Remember those 2 do not come hand in hand.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jexla View Post
    But that's the thing and the point of it. You're meant to be an active pistol shooter to have your b licence, not just having it so you can have it and feel like going to the range is a burden, you're meant to be excited to go to the range.
    I would disagree that over 20 years I was not "active" and after 20 years the novelty of "Shooting Pistols" had worn off. They are just another firearm like everything else. Still have my E though

    I would also note that an "excited person" on a pistol range is a person I would prefer to be far away from.

    I was slightly pissed off I had to sell my Open Racegun built for me and custom serial numbered but I managed to use the proceeds to buy a 725 shotty brand new 2 New Jiggin rods and my membership to a private sporting clays club so did OK in the end
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    Yeah with that kind of commitment to it your B should be grandfathered.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nibblet View Post
    Yeah with that kind of commitment to it your B should be grandfathered.

    especially when serial was "4mikee"
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    B endorsement

    Quote Originally Posted by mikee View Post
    especially when serial was "4mikee"
    Got a pic mikee?
    Sorry off topic just sounds awesome


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    Quote Originally Posted by BRADS View Post
    Got a pic mikee?
    Sorry off topic just sounds awesome


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    Don't have any Uploadable Pics, I did an article for my Std Gun in NzGuns in 200 something

    Heres a shoot I went to though way back in 2007. Was fun
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    I love pistol shooting, but have found attendance hard to keep up some years due to working weekends and work travel making me have to use weekend days for family.right now I I'm not even in NZ enough weekend to keep it. I really miss nzhpc wed shoots from back in the day as it let me get two attendance in a week if not working on the weekend. the way different clubs count attendance varies a bit as well.Oh and I'm excited to shoot every time I do but its hard to-shoot pistols more out of NZ than in these days-its a pain having to get others to hold pistols for you

    good on you gimp for sticking with it
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    Could you have got your C and transferred them across? Nothing like collecting race guns


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    Quote Originally Posted by hunt_fish View Post
    Could you have got your C and transferred them across? Nothing like collecting race guns


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    Good idea, and then if you felt like doing it again, you just transfer back after renewing B? Are you allowed to do that?

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    Quote Originally Posted by mikee View Post
    I would disagree that over 20 years I was not "active" and after 20 years the novelty of "Shooting Pistols" had worn off. They are just another firearm like everything else. Still have my E though

    I would also note that an "excited person" on a pistol range is a person I would prefer to be far away from.

    I was slightly pissed off I had to sell my Open Racegun built for me and custom serial numbered but I managed to use the proceeds to buy a 725 shotty brand new 2 New Jiggin rods and my membership to a private sporting clays club so did OK in the end
    I'm with you Mikee it's school boy stuff, oh you haven't been to the range so your interest in pistol shooting has waned? I can go months without shooting my rifles , so I should sell them all, what a load of BS it's all about control. If your fit and proper? C licence well that just means you'd have to shoot them illegally? Why?
    Boom, cough,cough,cough

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    Today I've learnt what a "race gun" is I think....


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    I would love a "B" but resigned myself to it never happening due to the attendance requirements.
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    "Hunting and fishing" fucking over licenced firearms owners since ages ago.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BRADS View Post
    Today I've learnt what a "race gun" is I think....


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    It's the white one that doesn't like the black one.

 

 

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