OldManShooter wrote:Yeah thanks guys for your help and condescension. I have a place to shoot it but it’s hours away and i’ll only get there once or twice a year, i was looking for somewhere local where i could shoot a few shells just to test it out rather than waiting until i have time to commit a full 4 days to go and shoot it.
I’m sure a lot of you guys would be able to empathise with the hunter with a family that may only get to hunt once or twice a year.
Ok, so thinking about Sydney Ranges then - and assuming you just want to see if it works rather than do "proper" shooting that its designed for:
- Malabar, doubt they would allow it. Never seen anyone using a shotgun there and the rules are pretty strict on everything so if its not allowed it's banned.
- St Marys... you could call and ask? Again, never seen anyone using a shotgun at the indoor range but in no obvious reason to me why you couldn't given you can use a centrefire rifle. Just up to them.
- You could try at some of the clay clubs. My guess is that a combination of "we don't like it" / concerns re visible safety vs a broken double barrel will probably get a no.
- I have seen them used multiple times, and used a friends' adler myself, at Silverdale. However, couple of issues with this. I haven't shot at Silverdale for a year or so, so maybe the rule has changed, but it used to be that the range rules were, you could only load to barrel capacity, not magazines. That meant for benchrest shooting, you need to load your rifle one round at a time (ridiculously frustrating). For the clay pigeon thrower, a "normal" shotgun could load both barrels. But the adler you had to load one round at a time because it only has one barrel. So that will tell you if the gun works but it won't give you a real feel for it. But its better than nothing.
Hope that helps.