Gun Club Question

baikilpm

I was in a gun club the last 3 years but due to disagreement I left, but there is two Gun Clubs in my town, do you think I should join the other club or just get my own insurance? Or do I have to be in a club to get insurance? The land I shoot on I have permission from the owner's anyway so its not as if im on gunclub land!!

Thanks

Tawny Owl

Join the other Gun Club and don't get involved in saying anything to much I don't know how you fell out from the other Club but learn from your experience
as a 51 year old keep your opinion too yourself and get on with life

homerhop

Ya dont have to be in a club to get insurance, IFA Countryside and Countryside Alliance will give you cover.

FOXHUNTER1

Did you use your gun club membership to apply for your licence last time around?
If you did and you've left the club your licence could be revoked
If this is the case I would try and join the other club or get some permissions from farmers to shoot their land and take out insurance with Countryside Alliance or the IFA.
The local guard down my way checks with the club every year to see if everyone is still a member.

LB6

It's also up to each club to notify the relevant authorities, that a member of their club has left.

baikilpm

the reason there are two clubs in my small village is because a couple of years ago the senior members fell out, so a few members started there own club. i was with the original club four years, and in that time put a lot of work in with clay shoots and pheasant pens and rearing ect. but the main reason i was asking should i get my own insurance is because i dont want to be apart of all the bullshi..t and just get on with my shooting...legally.. thanks

rambo87

Are both clubs affiliated to the NARGC? You cannot set up a club within a club or within another clubs' lands... how was this allowed to happen?

Anyway i'd defo join the other club...shooting on your own will royally piss off both clubs especially if youre shooting the pheasants and game theyve reared. You'll get no hassell if your in a club.. they'll be doing their best to tell landowners to only allow club members because of insurance etc. There are lads who leave clubs because of rows and not wanting to pay the fees then just get their own insurance and shoot away at the club reared birds!! This pisses everyone off! Just keep the head down and join the other club or stay in your own club - youre not in it for socialising but for shooting - the club should be bigger than the Bulls..it.. every club has stupid internal dispute from time to time.... I think you are better off IN the club in the long run.

cavan shooter

There are pros and cons I for one like the gun club system as there is a good bit of craic, also the NARGC fund and schemes seems (dont want to start that one again) the most to offer.

Politics and personalities in any club (not just shooting) is the cross we have to bear. Try get back into the one you left if you can you seem to know a lot of people, better still join both;)

best of luck regardless you always have sole insurance the fall back on.