Hoping to go into shooting.Costs?

Local-womanizer

Hopefully purchasing a rifle next summer.
Just intresting what is best the best rifle for starting on?
Overall costs involved from the legal side of things?

Comments appreacated.

Thanks.

Our man in Havana

Ok, I started on a .22lr semi auto cost €300 second hand. Scope and mounts were another €100 odd.
You will need gun club membership €150 to €300 per year or permission from 2 farmers (free )
€38 per year for the rifle licence, renewable each August, so if you get your licence in the new year you will pay again in August.

Hope that helps.

Edit: As regards ammo costs I am paying around €5 for 50 rounds.

You forgot ammo - .22 ammo is pretty cheap, you can prob get it for 5c a round or so.

Depends on what you want to do;

Target Shooting
Air Rifle - many target shooting clubs will have club rifles, so you just pay club membership. Ammo is less then 1c a round and its good fun.

.22 Rifle - many different types of .22 shooting, again clubs will have rifles and can go through it with you.

Hunting
You will need to learn how to shoot first, so you should go to a range and learn the basics and safety proceedures.

I got a good .22lr with scope for €400 second hand, there are plenty of guns for around that range.

SMERSH

5 cent a round for .22lr ammo? I would love to know where you can get it at that price?Cheapest I have found is €5 to €7 per box of 50.

Lapua super club works out about that I think..

'Course its free in TCD for squad members! (Lapua Master)

Local-womanizer

Thanks guys.As I siad it will be end of summer before I purchase anything and I have a gun club sorted and also no problem with the Liscense,I know a few Gardai

looking at .22sjust wondering what make of model is the best overall,within e300-e500 price range?Dont want to get screwed over by gun dealers!

meathstevie

In that price range you could probably haggle for a good as new CZ ( like a new Skoda car, you won't find better for what you pay and you'll pay a lot more for worse if you want to ) or Marlin, the likes of Anschutz and Krico and so on will make a bigger dent in the wallet ....

bunny shooter

CZ 452 in some shape or form

kerryman12

it might be a idea to look at getting insurance NARGC through your club..

CZ452 is a cracking little rifle.. it should stand you well

Local-womanizer

Thanks for all the comments.Looked at some of the CZs.Nice little rifles.
Cant wait to get shooting and luckily iam blessed with a nice number of farms around me!Should be fun:D

bullets

CZ452 in varmint I think is the coolest of all the 452's
The Heavy Free Floating barrel is great!

If you want something cheap to run and if your interested
if entering competitions and for rabbits etc then .22LR maybe for you.
Ammos is about 4-5 Euros for 50rnds. the .22LR is probably
best suited for 50-100m

If you dont mind NOT being able to enter competitions and you only
want to target shoot without the need for winning some medal or
competition then the .17HMR is a super round for accuracy and have heard its great for foxing. Its about 17-20 Euros a box of 50rnds and is good for 100-200m (200m on a very very mild day as wind will knock the round about the place)

Was shooting a few weeks ago at 50m where two mating flys happened
to wander across my bulls eye as I was squeezing the trigger and I think
I may have severed the male flys dinky off. I'm fairly new to shooting
and was getting consistent half inch groups or sometimes less at 50m with
the hmr.

~B

tiernanmoore@gm

does anyone know any gun clubs in the maynooth, celbridge?lookin at starting up with a shotgun anyone any ideas on what are the best ones?

Faheywitane

Hi Guys
Im trying to find a gun club in Dungarvan Co. Waterford.
I've been trying to get contact info for a while now, but
no joy! Any info would be much apreciated.

Faheywitane

rrpc

Faheywitane wrote: »

Hi Guys
Im trying to find a gun club in Dungarvan Co. Waterford.
I've been trying to get contact info for a while now, but
no joy! Any info would be much apreciated.

Faheywitane

There's a club just startiing up there (Waterford) at the moment. I've only heard about it and have no details myself, but if you get on to Fermoy, they'll know the details as Kieran Barry is helping them set it up.

sounder

Bond-007 wrote: »

Ok, I started on a .22lr semi auto cost €300 second hand. Scope and mounts were another €100 odd.
You will need gun club membership €150 to €300 per year or permission from 2 farmers (free )
€38 per year for the rifle licence, renewable each August, so if you get your licence in the new year you will pay again in August.

Hope that helps.

Edit: As regards ammo costs I am paying around €5 for 50 rounds.

€150-€300 a year thats alot boy hope ye are getting the moneys worth cheers sounder

bunny shooter

bullets wrote: »

Was shooting a few weeks ago at 50m where two mating flys happened
to wander across my bulls eye as I was squeezing the trigger and I think
I may have severed the male flys dinky off. I'm fairly new to shooting
and was getting consistent half inch groups or sometimes less at 50m with
the hmr.

~B

Ahhhh, that explains it

Our man in Havana

sounder wrote: »

€150-€300 a year thats alot boy hope ye are getting the moneys worth cheers sounder

Pretty standard for most target shooting clubs.

bunny shooter

bullets wrote: »

have heard its great for foxing.~B

I have found it totally unsuitable for foxes at anything over 80 yards.

bunny shooter

sounder wrote: »

€150-€300 a year thats alot boy hope ye are getting the moneys worth cheers sounder

€265 at Midlands, very reasonable for facilities there