Thread: A Blast From the Past. Firearms Licensing Old Style.

Originally Posted by zimmer

Still got my original Certificates Of Rego somewhere, the wife will know where. First one cost me the old currency (right on the changeover in 1967). Still got that rifle.

Re Railway travel - one of our old rifle club members was in his young days in the Navy in Auckland. The Navy used to put him, carrying his rifle on the train to Trentham to attend the Fullbore Nationals at the Trentham Rifle Ranges. I think it was the overnighter and I am not sure if the 303 was in a canvass bag or not.

From what I have heard over the years it was common for shooters to travel to Trentham to shoot for the Belt via train in the Defence rifle club days. if I recall correctly the travel was subsidised by the Army, as was the accommodation, food & ammunition.