Thread: Rifle golf

Originally Posted by Bagheera

The Hangawera shoot had a centerfire event like this called the Jungle Lane.
Targets of various sorts from 1 metre to 100m. Mostly gongs.
Keep firing till you hit the target then move on to the next. Semi autos have to hit twice (double tap).
Range officer accompanies shooters one by one.
Targets spread out in scrub over about 500m course. (Range officer gets very fit)
Score is by time. You run like stink. Makes the Ruahine hunters biathlon feel very lazy. More like goat hunting with dogs than golf.

Corrected this for you. And yes this jungle lane is a lot of fun. The main issue with it is that it takes a long time to get a group of people through it - and the poor range officer has to run with everyone!
I have a couple of videos taken from this event, one of me walking the course with my .375H&H and another of a service rifle shooter running the course with his AR and a 100round drum magazine.

Originally Posted by kimjon

The par idea is cool or a shot limit per target, say max 5? MOA gong size?

I'm not a huge fan of firing lots of rounds for the sake of it, or time limits... a hit is hit in my books. That was the appeal to me, nice leisurely stroll like golf, but with rifles not clubs :-)

1 MOA sized gongs makes for a hard day. Have a look at the results for the Hangawera Sniper shoot and you will see how people struggle with MOA sized targets. In fact I just looked at my Woodstock event and the average targets size was 1.8MOA with nothing smaller than 1.3MOA. The average score this year was about 28% of a possible with only 4 people out of 18 getting over halfway!

Time limits... it would be great to be able to just stroll round and shoot a few targets... Malcolm and I did this the first couple of shoot we ran. Took for bloody ever for some people to fire a simple shot and as a result took a long time to get 15 people through the course...
Firing lots of rounds... funny, really. If I am competing I will likely not bother travelling for a 20 shot event. I'll travel for a 60 shot event though. Each to their own, I suppose.