Thread: Kaipara Long Range - vids

This is a cool little invitational event (private land) held north of Auckland. Not one of mine, I go along as a competitor. It is great to turn up to someone else's event and let them do all the organising while I just shoot. Then I go along and make the day difficult by trying to video the event as well... everything suffers as a result!

I have uploaded a bunch of stage videos to youtube. These are just a couple of them:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSYRMvJXTjg


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbFUHsNAnKs


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVZKMzgW200


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4MmnfxL5uU



I get the comment every now and then that people would like the American PRS style of shoot to come to NZ. Well, it has sort of but at the moment very few of the events are big enough to handle more than about 25 people at a time, they are all on private land, and many of them are invitational events with non-refundable entry fees to be paid in advance. In fact I know a couple where to get an invite you need to be recommended by an existing competitor! Most of the organisers are a bit wary of just having anyone turn up and many of them have been burned a bit by people saying "yes, yes I am coming" but then never turning up...

So how can someone get an invitation? I recommend you turn up to a couple of events that are open, meet people, be safe, have a good attitude, have your stuff halfway sorted (i.e. good rifle, good drop data, range finder, spotting scope, etc.), and you will likely meet someone who knows someone. You can of course, run your own event or you could try and get in touch with myself and see about getting me to run an event for you - all you need is access to a suitable property!