Thread: Rifle golf

Originally Posted by Maca49

Moving gongs? Pick your colour

Oh no don't get me started... Strikes easily distinguished by squealing brakes and your gong crashing?!

I think we are going to need a location:
1 Legal.
2 Large.
3 Without any colored moving gongs, especially the ones that look like cars.

@dogmatix any ideas? Please don't agree with Takapuna Golf Course.

Different target for different ranges: golf balls for shorter 22 rimfire <150m bowling pins out to 400 odd yards, gongs further?

Sent from the swamp

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Originally Posted by chrome

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Sent from the swamp

Fuck gongs lets bang Chrome!

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

I heard of a challenge similar to this that involves a rifle, a golf ball (or many) and a driver club. The aim is to HIT the ball. First with the gold club down the range, then when it stops with the rifle. Points for distance of drive and points lost for shots fired. Aim is to be the longest drive that can shoot the ball with the first shot. Do you drive it for miles and shoot several times or drive short and hit it closer? At 200 yards a golf ball is a small target and if you hook or slice it could well be half buried in the terrain...

I have heard of the concept before but I don't know of a permanently set up course in NZ. We did look at setting up a course on a property outside of Rotorua once but it never came to fruition.

Many of the big American competitions run a similar set of rules - each stage has a "par time" or "par number of shots" but their is no ammunition limit. I am looking at running an medium range event under this rule set later in the year.

Re. 22LRs and golf balls. How many shots will a golf ball take from a 22LR? I ask because steel targets for 22LR are really cheap - more so it you don't bother with complicated shapes or mechanisms.

Originally Posted by Gillie

I have heard of the concept before but I don't know of a permanently set up course in NZ. We did look at setting up a course on a property outside of Rotorua once but it never came to fruition.

Many of the big American competitions run a similar set of rules - each stage has a "par time" or "par number of shots" but their is no ammunition limit. I am looking at running an medium range event under this rule set later in the year.

Re. 22LRs and golf balls. How many shots will a golf ball take from a 22LR? I ask because steel targets for 22LR are really cheap - more so it you don't bother with complicated shapes or mechanisms.

From what I have seen, if the shot is placed well the answer can be one. I have seen a couple where the shot hit just off centre and tore the side resulting in a disintegration.

For the challenge I mentioned, Varmint rigs were popular rather than 22LR as some of the guys were getting 150 yards or more....

Another option is to use paintballs and 22's - then you have the splatter effect for a hit.

They'll need to bring there own binos for the hold over call though.....

Originally Posted by Beaker

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They'll need to bring there own binos for the hold over call though.....

I have decided I will take one for the golfers and caddy for you! It might be tough and demanding at times but that's the kind of guy I am. You are welcome

Might be a tall order for my .44 lever gun, but as they say "in for a penny, in for a pound"

Hmmmm wonder what holdover for 1000y

golfball sized gongs would be fine for 22LR.

But plenty rubbish golf balls around and can place them on tees, mounted in a piece of 4x2.

And I thought I would never like Golf, now I am interested...