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Greetings Small_calibre,
I see from the latest NZDA Newsletter that The Rakaia Branch held their Wilkinson shoot on what I suspect is the Ashburton Range on 5 June. Good thing it wasn't the...

Greetings Kiwi James,
Thanks for that, will look forward to it. I thought something might be in the wind when I spotted your WTB for a target rifle.
Regards Grandpamac.

Greetings Bagheera,
We ran a shoot years back, before the days when anyone dialed up. This was on the old Roy's Hill range. Using the deer target we started at 300 yards with 4 shots prone with a...

Greetings Small-calibre and Jaco Goosen,
Pretty much agree with you both. Our problem in Hawkes Bay is that there is little of any type of competitive shooting to my knowledge. The NRA boys do their...

Greetings Shift14,
Sorry to hear of your bad experience. Regrettably there are still shooting groups like that but there are more that are most welcoming, especially these days with declining...

Greetings Small_calibre,
Thanks for that. Glad to hear that there are at least some branches still shooting the Wilkinson. Last year was difficult due to covid and some branches missed it...

Greetings StrikerNZ,
I had a vague memory of South Canterbury and Nelson had shot it previously and am glad that at least one of them still does. Thanks for that, I will look them up.
Regards...

Greetings All,
Thanks for your replies, likes and mentions. I think my first target shoot was in 1981 using my standard Remington 700 ADL with a 2.5 power Tasco scope and a hard plastic butt plate....

Greetings Shooternz,
I turned up at the Taupo monthly shoot last month and there was only the Rangemaster and I there. The pistol club looked pretty busy though. I am a member of Hastings and Taupo...

Thanks Janleroux,
The deer targets are still used for the annual Taruarau Shoot between Taihape and Hawkes Bay Branches (Napier and Hastings) but there are only two or less branches still entering...

Greetings All,
Following some of the recent posts on target shooting I thought that some may be interested in some details of the J M Wilkinson postal shoots that were run by NZDA branches, at least...