Bowling Pin shooting Man vs Man

bunny shooter

Is this 'banned' under new legislation?

I did a bit of this a few years ago and I liked it.

If it's not 'banned' are any of the clubs/organisations planning to include it on competition days?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgUX1hpa64s&feature=related

Same buzz I used to get from "Falling Plates" and for those not in the know

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ng_a8FC3RBI

(Note: This is the PDF but principle is the same for RDF/FCA)

sfakiaman

Given the close resemblance in shape of bowling pins to certain leading politicians this could be considered as shooting at humanoid targets . It's great fun though and I hope some day to get back to it.

Bananaman

For reference it is not outlawed as a form of Target shooting.
I competed in one of these events last year.

Primarily it is a decision of the host range whether or not they will allow it - not all will.

I would recommend that you contact your club and ask them if they will host such an event and take it from there.

B'Man

demonloop

bunny shooter wrote: »

Same buzz I used to get from "Falling Plates" and for those not in the know

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ng_a8FC3RBI

(Note: This is the PDF but principle is the same for RDF/FCA)

On a tangent I know, but I once did the plates from a helicopter (not the shooting bit ) - it probably has a fancy name, but we had to absail from a hovering heli that swooped in and hovered at the 500m firing point, ran to 300m and then fired on the plates. All part of a demo for Army Cadets.

Great fun

Grizzly 45

Deffo great fun,no fancy scoring or rules or equipment needed and we should do more of it on a inter club level shoot,as this could be also done with long arms as well at greater distances.:D:D

Kryten

100yds open sights, classic rifles. How about it. Anyone interested?

bunny shooter

Kryten wrote: »

100yds open sights, classic rifles. How about it. Anyone interested?

I would and I know of one other lad who would be too

Grizzly 45

Pump and SA scatterguns using slugs or 00 either restricted or unrestricted class.You wil get good at speed loading:D
Semi auto rifles open sights .Greater distances 3X magnification only.
Any takers???

BTW might as well throw this one out here too.In memory of a good few DCand HC wins this year .I'm thinking maybe we could start a inter club championship for shotgun,pistol and rifle in bowling pins,as it seems to be a very fresh shooting sport here.It's nice and simple,whowver clears the table first wins.
Also I and a couple of other DC winners are thinking of spnsoring a trophy for the very "elite and the few" group of people who have won in the DC and or HC the right to own their firearms again.Be it rifle handgun or shotgun.you can only enter if you won in either court.Irrespective of for what or when:)
Anyone be intrested???

sharky0922

sounds fun!
and something like shooting from diferent positions/different distances/different steel targets like boar/fox/sika
50m run.. one target.. 100 m another..etc
bolt action rifle?
would be even fun to watch!

dCorbus

Would indeed be fun!;)

50m run.. one target.. 100 m another..etc

But you're heading slap-bang into the ol' "dynamic and practical" area there IMO!!!!;):D

sharky0922

dCorbus wrote: »

Would indeed be fun!;)



But you're heading slap-bang into the ol' "dynamic and practical" area there IMO!!!!;):D

ok.. so walk? instead of run? practical..isnt that what we go on the range..to get practice?
you could say the same about pin shooting too, its VERY dynamic! many small targets -on time! fast dynamic shooting!

Grizzly 45

Yeah,but you dont run ,walk or crawl to the next set of targets in skittles.:D

dCorbus

ok.. so walk? instead of run?

In a word: Yes:D

practical..isnt that what we go on the range..to get practice?

Without being too semantically pedantic about this (:o:rolleyes:) "practical" in this context means (in my VHO):

designed for use; utilitarian

And not the other definition which defines practical knowledge as that knowledge obtained through practice.

I'd suggest one should be a tad more careful what gets bandied around here and put forward as falling within the abovequoted definition of "practical"!;) (For reasons which should be pretty obvious to one and all:eek:).

you could say the same about pin shooting too, its VERY dynamic! many small targets -on time! fast dynamic shooting!

Ummmm, no.... you couldn't.
It's not "dynamic shooting" as the shooter does not move.
The targets may be dynamic - which in this case they are not.
So, let me spell it out:

Targets not moving whilst being fired upon.
Shooter not moving whilst firing.

Ergo, not very dynamic at all.

But fun all the same!

(BTW Apologies in advance for the "somewhat" facetious tone of this post - but in all seriousness, why label something which is perfectly legit as something which may fall into the realms of prohibited activity, when it is clearly not - We get enough of that nonsense from the P'sTB, without us shooters engaging in such erroneous labelling too.)

sharky0922

dCorbus
i'll be quiet now

dCorbus

I'll get me coat!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3OM2MA1pic

Bananaman

I believe - 'practical shooting' for the purposes in which you are interested - namely what is no longer allowed - is defined in the legislation

I don't have it to hand bet believe it is defined as 'combat simulation'

it has nothing to do with bowling pin shooting - or indeed any other form of competitive target shooting

B'Man

dCorbus

Here ya go, B'Man -

CRIMINAL JUSTICE (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) ACT 2009, No. 28 of 2009:

In this section “practical or dynamic shooting”
means any form of activity in which firearms

are used to simulate combat or combat training.

it has nothing to do with bowling pin shooting - or indeed any other form of competitive target shooting

Correctamundo - Competitive Target Shooting is a whole other ball of wax entirely and has NOTHING to do with simulating combat or combat training - I might go so far to say that it's about as similar as golf and hurley - both use schticks and balls, but that's about it as far as the similarities go.