Thread: Rifle golf

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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.

N

Originally Posted by chrome

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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.

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

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....

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...

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

I'll get a dawn round in on the Kinloch 9 holer on Thursday, see how long before the armed offenders show up! I know I'll get some practice shots at the bunnies.

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. .223 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.

There were about 25 targets and I used 3 mags from the .303. Round counts for AR users were more like 80 - 100.
I took 13 min but most others got round in under 10 min, some down to 6.

Fantastic fun.


Gillie has had the occasional stage where you shoot at a target till you hit it, moving on to progressively smaller or more difficult ones. This really hones your concentration and I think would enable shooters to perform at their peak abilities.

Kim, if you go beyond 500m I think I'll need a mercy exit - maybe a max of 5 shots per target ! Or drink a compulsory double shot latte for 7mm08 users. Could get very messy if I start missing early ...

Haha, I have no doubt you'd out shoot me...latte and all :-) . I'm using the 7mm08's chubby cousin, so not a lot in it now.

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 :-)

Kj