Quick one - shooting GR at Bisley

[Gaz]

Me and some mates are going to Bisley tomorrow to do a bit of fullbore zeroing and general pottering about. We're thinking, once we're done with the fullbores, about hiring a lane on Melville and a gallery rifle from the NRA. Although I've shot on Melville, I've never booked it or actually operated the range. Come to that, I've never hired a gallery rifle off the NRA either.

Does anyone know what gallery rifles the NRA have for hire, and is there anything unusual we should be aware of on Melville?

[Christel]

is there anything unusual we should be aware of on Melville?

:lol: :lol:

Plenty...(sorry, couldn't resist)

Zombies!

[ovenpaa]

Actually......... I have evidence that the walking dead do exist at Bisley.

That was me being serious as well.

[DanTheMan]

Does anyone know what gallery rifles the NRA have for hire, and is there anything unusual we should be aware of on Melville?

.357 Marlins are approx £11 to hire for a 1/2 day plus ammo, Melville may be fully booked so check with the range office first, you could book bay A for £12 per hour.

[Quarters]

You can hire semi-auto 22s and black powder pistols. You'll need each type ticked on your SCC and all be full members of the NRA.

[Gaz]

Does anyone know what gallery rifles the NRA have for hire, and is there anything unusual we should be aware of on Melville?

.357 Marlins are approx £11 to hire for a 1/2 day plus ammo, Melville may be fully booked so check with the range office first, you could book bay A for £12 per hour.

Sounds good. What's the difference between bay A and the other bays? Can we book just a lane or two on a bay rather than hiring the whole shebang?

We're going down as a club, if that makes any difference.

[DanTheMan]

Bay A is tiny with only 3 or 4 firing points utilising returning targets on rails, if you need more space then bays B-E can be booked for around £70 per 1/2 day on a weekend, now thats the whole shebang - but it's all down to what's got space on the day, good luck & have fun.

[IainWR]

The difference:

We sell space on Bay A by the lane. On the other bays you have to take the whole bay. Bay A has powered advancing / returning targets - you stay at the firing point and press a button and the entire target moves up or down range, so multiple users can operate a lane each without having to sychronise details to walk down to the targets. The other bays you have to walk down the range to examine the targets - so the entire bay has to operate as one entity.

Otherwise, as said before: full members who hold a competence cert for the relevant firearm can hire one, buy ammo for it and use it on Bisley ranges within range safety regulations. The NRA can hire you Ruger .22"s, Marlin 38/357s, assorted 9mm, 44-40, 45 Colt and other gallery rifles, plus replica cap & ball revolvers if you have a black powder competence. Because of the limitations of S15 Firearms Act 1988 we cannot hire LBRs or LBPs (and we don't own any).

Iain