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Darwin Rifle Club

Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 8:55 am
by Rolcar52
Hi all,
Just a few photos of a Saturday at Darwin Rifle Club.

Re: Darwin Rifle Club

Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 10:01 am
by dg
thanks for the interesting photos.

keep em' coming.

as a matter of interest,would you know if robert mckay was in attendance on saturday?

cheers
dave g

Re: Darwin Rifle Club

Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 1:32 pm
by Sam Walker
Electronic target in use there - can you tell us a bit about that ?

Re: Darwin Rifle Club

Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 8:51 pm
by Rolcar52
Dave , I hope your not his boss! He was in attendance, came second in Target rifle 300 mtrs, and was handicap champion. Ps i think you mean Robert McCann. He's a pretty good shot and is on the podium quite regularly.
Regards Rolf.

Re: Darwin Rifle Club

Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 9:53 pm
by Rolcar52
Sam, the club bought the electronic targets this year, we had a few teething problems with missed shots but this has now been sorted and the targets are proving to be very reliable we had a couple of missed shots on Saturday which turned out to be cross fires { not mine }. We have used them out to 1000 mtrs no problem. When they were first installed some of use were a little worried about loosing the social aspect of scoring, but this has not happened, Shoots run very smoothly and we get through 2 applications quite quickly, there are usually 20 to 25 regular competitors but we have had as many as 33 which were handled easily with our 3 targets. I'm not 100% sure but i think they cost the club around the $40,000.00 each mark

Regards Rolf

Re: Darwin Rifle Club

Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 10:09 pm
by dg
no mate

i am not his boss, but now i am worried that i have drawn attention to his saturday activities! :oops:

any photos of the down range view from the firing point and other range facilities?

cheers
dave g