Thread: F-Class

Originally Posted by scoped

Obviously I'm not just going to show up to a club shoot and walk up to some random and ask if I can have a go sort of thing.

Why the hell not? There isn't a golden ticket or lucrative membership hazing.

I had the Secretary's rear bag and shooting mat and the President laying next to me reading the wind at Cheltenham during my first shoot. I brought along my $600 Marlin and factory Corelokt rounds, shooting off a Chinese bi-pod and not one shit was given. Even surprised myself with a couple of V's. Spent the rest of the afternoon chatting to F, F/tr and FO shooters, all willing to share knowledge.

Late in 2013 my (then) 14 year old said he wanted to try target shooting.
We went to a local range where I knew someone. A lot of help was offered to my son to get him started and hooked.

Once I was sure he'd continue advice was ask for and given about the next step and what might a good learner rifle - a heavy barrelled Savage Varmit rifle in 223.

Don't be afraid to approach your nearest club at your nearest range as almost all will offer you great help to get you hitting the target. After that it's up to you.

We went to the Nationals in January 2014 and received even more helpful advice from people we didn't know. Great people, very helpful.


We still get helpful advice - now it's about how to build up a FTR rifle in 308 around a Barnard action.

Originally Posted by Hades

Why the hell not? There isn't a golden ticket or lucrative membership hazing.

I had the Secretary's rear bag and shooting mat and the President laying next to me reading the wind at Cheltenham during my first shoot. I brought along my $600 Marlin and factory Corelokt rounds, shooting off a Chinese bi-pod and not one shit was given. Even surprised myself with a couple of V's. Spent the rest of the afternoon chatting to F, F/tr and FO shooters, all willing to share knowledge.

didn't mean it like that, more of a personal thing I guess especially when these are people you don't know and are all dealing with firearms! l.. I don't doubt that clubs are helpful for new shooters and stuff, its just stink that there is little publicity or more of an effort to get people into the sport. if they ran a hunter class????

at the mo I have occasional access to a farm which we can scrape 950 metres on a bit of steel, but if worst comes to worst then I would probably try trentham!

Cheltenham runs a hunters class on occasion and also invites the local DeerStalkers to stretch their legs from time to time.

Remember that the majority of the club members (from my experience) are over 50 and have not heard of or use Facetube or Youbook. Modern forms of publicity will catch up when modern people make it accessible. The old school way of finding info is to talk to someone. That would work spectacularly in this situation.