Sports Shooting

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Originally Posted by Jeld-Wen Falcon

I went for my first shoot at the local gun club on Thursday night, had an absolute blast!

No pun intended right? ;)

Originally Posted by Jeld-Wen Falcon

Learning to shoot was great, the people were great will definately make this a regular thing.

Anyone else here into sports shooting? And what kind of scores are you shooting?

My dad has been shooting for nearly 20 years at Hornsby Rifle Range in Sydney. I used to mark the targets (standing in the sun for 4 hours with bullets flying overhead seemed a small price to pay for $25 in those days). I only shot a few times.

Once with a Mosin-Nagant - which we were subsequently banned from using because it shot a 6 foot flame out the barrell and set the grass on fire.

Another time I used an SKS semi-automatic (this was before Port Arthur) and managed to get 50/50 (commonly referred to as a 'possible') from 500 metres, with 4 bull-eye 5s.

Plus a couple of other times using various 7.62's and .22s.