Shooting a shotgun prone, as someone who doesn't particularly like recoil, I'm puckering thinking about that one.

Actually not too difficult for us with lots of" tactical padding" Try a 3 gun "run and gun " event then you will know your fitness level.
There is actually a demand for it ,lads have been asking about it and it doesnt really require much in equipment,a game gun willl do

Wouldnt be too hard to do as it is [1] static and [2] modify the round count to three
OR if shot unrestricted load three keeping one spare in the weak hand,to be loaded by the shooter after firing the first shot.[Learn to speed load] Only problem is really the ammo..Slugs. Or change the targets to somthing shot gunnable, like clays at different distances to be shot in sequence.

Hello FCP??.....

IPSC would be great if it came back, but I would like to try this shotgun comp.

What stock is that Clive

I recall there being talk of introducing it during nasrpc events since the committee change recently. Anyone else hear that?

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Not much comes out from the new committee, No I haven't heard that news.

It was mentioned to me in passing by some enthusiastic MTSC members.

If I thought I could shoot even a handful of half decently attended competitions per year I'd stick my beretta semi on a restricted cert and have some fun.

I'd love to know how many shotguns in the country are on restricted Certs and what kinds of "good and sufficient reasons" were acceptable to the relevant CSs.

A well attended embassy cup discipline would be great.

Few thoughts on this.
At the moment we are only shooting this at Fermoy and MTSC . Would it be plausible to get[ if you know your CS on first name terms no doubt] a VERY restricted liscense to those two ranges for shooting these competitions on an unrestricted liscense? IOW you can "unplug" your 3 shot down on the range to whatever round count needed,shoot the comp,plug it and go home legally?That would also entitle you to buy the slugs as well.It is within a Cs power to do this and as such it is not a new restricted liscense,but a "derogation"[Is that the right word?] on an existing liscense?
Thinking softly,softly here,rather than a mass of people wanting restricted liscenses all of a sudden,and scaring the living bejaysus out of the PTB again..Give something,get something.

At worst,it could be shot 3 plus 1 starting plus a 1 round speed reload after the first shot within the time frame.With a bit of practise.
Ammo.There is no mention of "frangible ammunition" in the act as being restricted. This can be very high tech compressed bismuth, or shot,usually used for blowing off door hinges in raids,but it has no over penetration capability, or in the crudest form shotgun pellets held together by wax.They both break up on impact and deliver their pellets in a cluster.A slug OTOH doesn't break up,and there is no definition in law as to what exactly a shotgun slug is either.

Classic shotgun..What is it shot with and course of fire?

Proably right Turismo,but I can see trying to explain this to the unknowing and the unwilling who issue restricted liscenses as being another monumental task.

Grrrr!
This whole topic galls me regarding multi shot shotguns.When I think of the two lost opportunities we had with this.The utter dis interest t shown in the 1980s when I tried to get as it was then known as "combat shotgun" in those less PC times going in Ireland,no one cared how many rounds your gun had or what kind of a shape it was in or what or how, you shot at things back then . It would have morphed into IPSC and have been established by 2006,so adding handguns and semi rifles would have been utterly acceptable.

And then the IPSC situation when it was suggested as a fall back position if the pistols went tits up.:rolleyes:




What is the definition of a shotgun slug under the law Turismo?I can't find anything on that ,bar that they are named as restricted ammo.Like "silencers" there was no concerete definition until recently as to what a silencer actually was.
True,mightnt the most accurate of things,but better than nothing..

Plenty of people have restricted lever actions so I don't see why restricted pump shotguns or semi autos are such a big deal.

Errr...Proably because lots of bad guys use them in Hollywood fiction flicks,and thats apprently where most beuracrats get their factual firearms info from perhaps?? When was the last time you saw a bad guy outside a western,use a lever action anything?[ Terminator 2 being the exception,with the most ridicilous cut down lever action shotgun.But it is so in demand Chiappa actually makes a copy of it!]

As far as I understand the rationale behind restricting slugs some time ago was to limit deer poaching. It's otherwise counterintuitive for a .308 to be unrestricted and a slug restricted.

And post 1972 how did most people who couldn't get a .22/250 manage? They made their own slugs,roundball or brenneke .And proably still do and will continue to do so.
Apprently the PTB only became aware that such doomsday weaponary existed by reading here a topic on boards.ie in 2008.:rolleyes: Yeah it makes about as much sense as most firearms related law in Ireland..None whatsoever.

Ok off for a chat with the cheif.....:rolleyes: