schism wrote:No, to both. Don't have my licence, not a member yet. I'm pretty much at a stage of being interested in getting in to IPSC, but I haven't been to an intro day nor have I decided on a club yet.
On paper, the club "practical pistol league Australia" at Eagle Park range seems good: a large club that's fairly active and possibly well organised. But they only have their "intro" days once a month. So I'm going to have to wait until early September to get started with that.
Springvale seems alright too, going by their site. Looks like they have a full on program with various training sessions.
I'd be interested in hearing about people's experiences with the various pistol clubs that of IPSC in Vic, especially at Eagle Park or springvale, so I can get a better idea of which one would be worth signing up with.
but yeah, other than that I'm just wondering if there were any clubs that had a reasonably priced "come and try"
I would suggest you just join a club and get started. You're going to be waiting a bloody long time before you can buy your own handgun anyway so get the process underway by joining a club.
I would also suggest you get a firearms licence ASAP so you can enjoy some rifle shooting while wading through the months of pistol training. With rifles and shotguns you can be out shooting a month after you put in your licence application (if you lodge the PtA's at the same time as the application).