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After a couple of goes, it seems I'm quite good (clays).
How might one get into it a bit more (Scotland) - nothing serious as I've got plenty of other stuff on just now. No idea what's out there (doesn't need to be clays - whatever is affordable most likely!)
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What sort of shooting?
Find local shooting club, we have a shoot last Sunday of the month, good fun and good crack.
Dunno sharkbait, probably whatever I can afford.
probably whatever I can afford.
Shootin' the breeze?
Image of future classifieds add for home made shotgun comes to mind, made from 2 x Reverb seat posts and an XTR shifter 😯 😆
Clays is going to be by far your cheapest way into the sport, and thats not cheap.
You'll have to google for local clay grounds, or find a good gunshop and go have a chat.
Visit the websites of BASC (The British Association for Shooting and Conservation) and also the CPA (Clay Pigeon Association) - loads of information there.
Find your nearest club and join - the rest will come from there.
Has anyone accused you of being a violent fantasist yet?
No? This place has changed.......
Wheres the pic of that fat guy who looks like Gladiators wolf?
i) fill in form and post off with 2 referees forms down as well
ii) await phone call
iii) buy cabinet and bolt to wall
iv) interview to see you're not a nutter (buy some nice biscuits)
v) get certificate and buy gun
It really is that simple for a shotgun, unless you've got a history of violent crime then there's a clear presumption in favour of issue, and you don't have to satisfy anyone with 'good reason' unlike rifle ownership.
http://www.basc.org.uk/en/utilities/document-summary.cfm/docid/61EEDFF2-7222-4615-BB4B187BAD081659
Had a go once with muzzle loaders and clays at the Cock, Ball, Nipple and Touch Hole Club, was great fun. Didn't hit a thing until given a go with a huge ornate Hungarian blunderbuss type gun.
Buy an air rifle = learn to shoot. Preferably a recoiling one.
[quote=ninfan ][s]i) fill in form and post off with 2 referees forms down as well
ii) await phone call
iii) buy cabinet and bolt to wall
iv) interview to see you're not a nutter (buy some nice biscuits)
v) get certificate and buy gun
It really is that simple for a shotgun, unless you've got a history of violent crime then there's a clear presumption in favour of issue, and you don't have to satisfy anyone with 'good reason' unlike rifle ownership.
http://www.basc.org.uk/en/utilities/document-summary.cfm/docid/61EEDFF2-7222-4615-BB4B187BAD081659 [/s]
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Try and find a local club, explain you are an enthusiastic beginner and I'm sure you'll be made very welcome, simple clays on a local shooting ground shouldn't be so expensive and you can borrow a gun and shoot under guidance. Without being too much of an arse I found I was quite good at it and had a few lessons which made a big difference too, not least detecting a big left eye dominance and changing to shoot left handed ! Buying a shotgun is pretty cheap, something pretty decent for clays for £300 used is easy. Tougher part is getting licence / installing gun cabinet. Anyway first step is to see if you progress with club/lessons and want to stick with. There are lots of charity days / low key competitions you can enter and they are great fun, it's amazing the buzz you get from a good score.
When I was clay shooting about ten years ago a round of 25 clays cost £5 plus another £5 for a box of cartridges. That soon mounts up!
Demonstration or have a go days are set up to make it easy for the beginner to hit the clays, when you get into competition shooting then it gets much harder.
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when it doesnt clash with rugby training I try and join the Local Militia at the South Worcester Shooting Grounds which are very near to me for a session on the clays.
It costs about £17 for a 64 bird card and another £15 worth of cartridges. I borrow one of my mate's guns these days as I got rid of my own years ago and havent got round to sorting out a new certificate and locker. If you do get your own, you will probably need to budget around £100 for a gun locker and another £100-300 for a gun. But like bikes the range of prices is vast.
It's a great way to spend the Sunday morning: a bacon butty, some great open sporting practice, then retire to the pub to refine our plans for taking parliament by force.
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Al join a club,they will know how to do it cheaper(bulk buys on cartridges and may have club guns to use)
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Buy an air rifle = learn to shoot
Good idea, airguns are often overlooked, but they're great fun and there's lots of different disciplines to try.
Our shoot on Saturday, on an estate, was £1 per cartridge.
A club or airgun sounds about right, I'll have a look.
Cheers all
Getting into shooting
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Start off with peasants, then work your way up to the lower middle classes....
Bear in mind that shotgun shooting and rifle shooting are two very different disciplines so it's no point getting an air rifle to learn how to shoot clays.
Join a local club and they'll help you out with loan guns and days out before you decide if you want to start buying kit.
FWIW I find target shooting with air rifle really boring, it doesn't have the buzz of clays. You should try both and see which you prefer.
Def check out CPSA for local clubs but some of those will be bigger shoots - what you want to find is a local straw-baller that shoots every other sunday morning (grounds can shoot 26 days a year without planning consent). Loads of them about, dead friendly and much cheaper to shoot at mainly because you help set up, trap, score and then clear up afterwards, rather than some of the bigger CPSA registered stuff where it's all laid on for you with a scorer at each stand, someone who sets it all up and clears up after you etc.
Local gunshops are are good place to start to look for such places but should be a few about and once you find one the guys there will know what else is on in the area.
As for cartridges, buy by the thousand and it's a lot cheaper - they start from £150/1000 - a long way from the £1/cartridge mentioned above.
FWIW I find target shooting with air rifle really boring, it doesn't have the buzz of clays.
Also, you cannot cook with targets or clays. 🙂
@CFH indeed, my standard of shooting doesn't warrant the expense of many game days !
FWIW I find target shooting with air rifle really boring, it doesn't have the buzz of clays. You should try both and see which you prefer.
Field Target or Hunter Field Target certainly isn't boring. That said, a lot of HFT types really ought to be in the Bayou back-scuttling their sisters... 😯
Don't get started - its far too addictive. And watching the £ signs simply blowing up in front of you is hard to stomach in the end 😉
Used to do loads of field target shooting, stopped due to the rest of my life taking up too much time.
Went on a "Clay" day in Northumberland during the summer & really enjoyed it.
I was crap at first as the instructor said he could see I'd shot rifes a lot so needed to unlearn my instincts, he was a superb coach and by the end of the day I was hitting about 75%.
But by heck did my shoulder hurt the next day 😮