Thread: Young Trap Shooters

Because we realize the importance of getting youth interested in the shooting sports our gun club sponsors a high school trap shooting team. We supply all of their ammo, when needed, shotguns, and coaching. We also absorb much of their expense when traveling to compete. Our team is the reining high school state champions. Interestingly, the girls are better shooters than the boys.

It seems to stun non gunners and enrage anti gunners - and change some minds.

I was a member of the collage full bore rifle shooting team , do they have any shooting sports in schools these days or has it all gone ?

Originally Posted by Boaraxa

I was a member of the collage full bore rifle shooting team , do they have any shooting sports in schools these days or has it all gone ?

Rifle teams are less frequent than they used to be. Trap shooting is growing by leaps and bounds. Some colleges and universities offer scholarships to high school champion trap shooters, and even more colleges have trap shooting teams. Some do contribute to the rifle and pistol teams for Olympic teams.

I think the big pivot in terms of where we diverge as nations in our understanding of what firearms are meant to mean in the life of the ordinary man, is the right and duty to bear arms in American law and culture.

The same mentality is not really present as much in other english speaking nations.

To bear arms is seen more as a privilege and less of a right.

Welcome.
Where I’m from in the UK most college and universities have sporting clay teams.
Highly normal that the girls are better at it than the boys. Girls don’t grow up picking up the all those bad habits from watching Hollywood’s war and cowboy and indian movies. So when they come to a clay or shooting ground they are taught correctly.

I took an interest in this thread as its exactly what id been talking about with my neighbour , if someone else from another country wants to chime in it could be interesting to learn something new , must say over the last few weeks shooters have not had a nice light cast apon them mostly by nitwits ...welcome

Here you go for long range. https://www.marlboroughcollege.org/2...-team-success/

For college clay shooting 23 teams
https://basc.org.uk/blog/press-relea...ge-clay-shoot/

As far as compensation for high value (and indeed, any) firearms are concerned:

We don't know yet. And we are very keen to find out.

All I can say is what I suspect:

The Police have been thrown in the deep end on this one, and are trying to learn how to swim.

In the interim, you might get a clearer idea looking at the Australian model which is far and away more established.

The Govt will rip us off no doubt, for a $3500 gun will get $400, no proof only guessing but the Govt will cheat us out of a lot of $$

Again @ChanceMcCall I reiterate......
“Always happy to see new members here contributing to discussion on Hunting and Shooting, but not so keen if I believe there is an underlying agenda of trying to persuade New Zealander’s on how we should think or react to matters of governance here in this country. We can work that out for ourselves thank you very much.”

Well so far we,v failed pretty miserably , in fact have the govt listened to anything at all the shooting community has put forward ?
I believe the only thing that has stopped them taking an even bigger swipe at removing guns from responsible licenced law abiding gun owners is the fact the govt don't have the funds to do so ...else wed be more toasted than we are now , so at this rate by the time we "work it out for our self's " it,l be game over , next reloading will be gone ...

Quote “One final question, of interest.
This forum has been going for a good number of years. Why is it now that you have decided it would be a good time to participate in it?


Strange you would ask that question,like a lawyer who asks a question as he/she would obviously know they answer.The New Zealand gun issue has garnished a lot of attention,why would that not stimulate or be the catalyst for anyone to join in the debate...the last time I checked there was an offer from this website to anyone wishing to partake in a variety of issues and subjects,just not shooting and hunting.

I think most “outside” viewers are well aware that “we can take care of our own issues”,yes there are some that push an agenda,but people are interested in a plethora of issues surrounding what is happening in kiwi........then again,you can always ignore ones post,not required reading by any means

Growing up we didn't have organized firearms competitions in the schools I went to but they did in the High School my wife went to and she competed in small bore shooting, she continued into college. Where I lived each little town had a Sportsmans Club and had a trap shooting league. Local businesses sponsored five+ man teams. I shot for a bar in town from the time I could drive(10th grade) and shot in as many as four different leagues(towns) on teams sponsored by the same bar. So in high school I shot league trap weeknights and registered birds on the weekend.

I had no idea there was a NZ Forum until a friend told me about it. It is interesting to hear about different game, styles of hunting, thoughts on guns, scopes, reloading and favorite equipment. I stay as far away from political discussions as possible, it's your country and you have to figure out what will work for you.