Target shooting
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MCFastybloke
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I shoot clays and some of the grounds i visit have dedicated plinking ranges. I dont know of any in your area as im from West Yorks.
The one I fired had tracer rounds every few shots too, so as it was an evening shoot they looked pretty amazing going down range.A skilled operator will be able to fire single shots from the GPMG.. those who fired one, will know what I mean
That said, again going back in my past, I went to an Artillery Day at Larkhill and among other very impressive sights (which included an Honest John missile launch which was a real WTF! moment), seeing 105mm day tracer rounds going down range at some old tanks from some Abbot self-propelled guns was ridiculous. The ricochets gave a real sense of just how fast these things travel and how much energy they have.
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Very well done. May I ask what you were using for that please MJ.?
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Presumably one of those very serious looking fellows on Century as I drove past this morning? Things were a little more...agricultural up on Short Siberia, running a Garand and a No4 Enfield.
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Parker Hale 1200TX (the predecessor of the L81A1 'Cadet Rifle'), with PH 5c sight, firing standard 7.62 NATO rounds, from the prone position.
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Yup, that was on Century, on Saturday
Both rifles are legendary, what are they chambered in?
Doodle
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As original, so 30-06 and 303 British.Yup, that was on Century, on Saturday
Both rifles are legendary, what are they chambered in?
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Back in the day at school we had an indoor 15mtr range in a dedicated building; ostensibly for shooting BSA Martinis (.22lr). There were 3 firing points which we significantly uprated the back stops on. We then shot with some of the other stuff we had in the Armoury. This included old Lee Enfield .303s, Parker Hale 7.62s, SLRs, SA 80's and a variety of .38 and 9mm pistols we had.
We drew the line at shooting the Bren guns and gpmg's indoors; mainly because the business end of the range backed on to the caretakers back garden.
As they say "different times" and you can imagine I loved my school's days
We drew the line at shooting the Bren guns and gpmg's indoors; mainly because the business end of the range backed on to the caretakers back garden.
As they say "different times" and you can imagine I loved my school's days
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I use a Crosman 1377 for back garden shooting. The advantage of being a pump is you can regulate it, 3 pumps is fine and is very low power at that point. Even a cardboard box with some newspapers in will easily stop anything. Out of the box ridiculously accurate for the money. You can also get loads of custom parts if you want to develop it. There’s quite a following and cottage industry for this which makes it quite fun. It’s a bit of a classic.
Ive grown up around firearms and archery and shot at Bisley and Cobham Pistol club quite a bit. My Dad goes to Belgium to shoot big stuff now, almost every other week with a group of friends.
Ive grown up around firearms and archery and shot at Bisley and Cobham Pistol club quite a bit. My Dad goes to Belgium to shoot big stuff now, almost every other week with a group of friends.
Dabbled with that too in my yoof, wasn’t much good at that eitherArchery here. Slightly different skill set
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I was also an archer at Chichester Archery Club, probably 35 years ago....for a while. The snobbery and one up-man-ship in the club put me off.....so I told them what I thought of them....and left!!
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I did well at DTL County clay comp back in the 1980, so an has been realy . Shot for my county 3 times 1 time for Worcestershire 2x for the Westmidlands. And i was high high gun 2x . Friend of mine [best ] who started shooting clays back then shot for Englabd 21 times a few of his pictures 
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No wonder you chose the career you did! LOLBack in the day at school we had an indoor 15mtr range in a dedicated building; ostensibly for shooting BSA Martinis (.22lr). There were 3 firing points which we significantly uprated the back stops on. We then shot with some of the other stuff we had in the Armoury. This included old Lee Enfield .303s, Parker Hale 7.62s, SLRs, SA 80's and a variety of .38 and 9mm pistols we had.
We drew the line at shooting the Bren guns and gpmg's indoors; mainly because the business end of the range backed on to the caretakers back garden.
As they say "different times" and you can imagine I loved my school's days
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I did a bit with my folks who were keen archers (Field), and i always struggled as im right handed but left eye dominant. When i got back into it a bit over lockdown i did quite a bit of research and trained myself to shoot left handed. Felt weird at first and maybe took 1000 arrows to feel natural but my accuracy and consistency improved massively. Now if i pick up a bow i automatically go to shoot left handed!Dabbled with that too in my yoof, wasn’t much good at that either
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I do a bit of target shooting every other Sunday at a local RFD/range, it's only 20 m but it is an indoor pistol/rifle range so nice and dry and out of the wind.
This a target shot by me with my FX Wildcat Mk3 .22cal, 18 shots (mag capacity).
This target was shot by me with my FX Impact Mk2 .177cal, 10 shots only with this one (mag capacity is 38).
This target was shot by me with my HW97Kt .177cal Springer 10 shots.
This last one was also shot by me using my BSA R10 Se .22cal 10 shots.
It's a shame the range is only 20m, there are other facilities with longer shooting points where i am but they are all outdoor ranges and I don't like getting wet or cold.
This a target shot by me with my FX Wildcat Mk3 .22cal, 18 shots (mag capacity).
This target was shot by me with my FX Impact Mk2 .177cal, 10 shots only with this one (mag capacity is 38).
This target was shot by me with my HW97Kt .177cal Springer 10 shots.
This last one was also shot by me using my BSA R10 Se .22cal 10 shots.
It's a shame the range is only 20m, there are other facilities with longer shooting points where i am but they are all outdoor ranges and I don't like getting wet or cold.
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My Fx Wildcat Mk3
My FX Impact Mk2
I'll have to take some better photo's of my BSA R10 Se and my HW97.
My FX Impact Mk2
I'll have to take some better photo's of my BSA R10 Se and my HW97.
My Weihrauch HW110 .177 on a home-made bench, used for zeroing (in the garden). It's primarily used for hunting (rats and rabbits), hence the day/night scope with rangefinder.
Further to the above, this is a link to the Artillery Day brochure/programme