Well equipped

The club is well equipped, with a selection of rifles that must rank as one of the finest collections in the country. Impecunious students can use rifles similar to those used by New Zealand's top shooters. The average rifle weighs about 14½lb, but often the old men of the sport jealously use 28-pounders. Targets are standard smallbore 25-yard targets. Ammunition is available in several brands and prices. New shooters are given one free shoot when they first join.

One of the big attractions of the sport is that any person who concentrates can do well at it as long as he has one good eye and can see the required 25 yards.