Thread: Rifle golf

Golf seems to me a neutered down derivative of old English field target archery. Much of the terminology is the same and so is the flow of play. Nowdays of course, the rifle is the real thing. Airgun and rimfire have their place, but only over ranges those weapons were intended for, in my opinion.

So, having discussed it, we have come back to the leisurely gentleman's golf model, with a basic time limit at each firing point. Score should be the total number of shots to hit all the targets, with lowest score the winner. Unlike golf, you don't get progressively closer to your target so a maximum of say 5 shots could be one way to deal with it. Another way might be for shooters who miss to move say 50m closer for the next shot and another 50 for the third till they do hit it. Every point would count. (I used to do a competition like this with my flatmate using a crossbow in the back yard. A moro bar was stood up vertically about 20m away and each took a shot. If you hit it, you eat it. If both missed we took a step forward and shot again. Around 13m the moro bar was always history. It was a high pressure match all right.)