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Move to Yorkshire and join my club, shooting every day of the week during daylight hours

Were about is that Club my friend sounds interesting.

Thurnscoe is in the Barnsley area.

Yeah, between Barnsley and Rotherham, 10 minutes up the road from South Yorkshire Shooting Supplies/Rimfire Magic.
All members get a key and you need a minimum of 2 people to open up the range, only one has to be a member, though the other can't shoot if they're not.
Is this not common practice?

No full bore rifle and pistol cartridges BP over the chrono to ensure loads within range certificate limits I believe.

"2 days 2 nights 4 off which means weekends for me only happen every 27/28 days"

When I started it was 3 days, 3 nights, 3 off, 56 hour week.

When I joined my club they were very understanding, I can't think of any reason a club would be willing to loose a recruit these days.

Yeah Adam, no rifle cartridges at ours at all yet, except .22, pistol calibre have to be chrono'd to be under the range limit, same with BP. They're hoping to do some work and get approval for larger calibres eventually

I work permanent nights start at 20:00 finish at 0600 plus an hours travel each way to/from work. My local indoor club that I joined at the age of 16 refuse's to open before 20:00 despite the fact that most of the committee are retired and live within a 15 min walk or a 10 min drive of the club. I was a member for 30 years and shot for the county in several disciplines but when my work changed to permanent nights that cut no ice with the committee. I had no option but to cancel my membership and the County lost a team member. I now have no option but to restrict all my shooting to full bore primarily at Bisley as that is my closest range. That entails a 120 mile round trip once month during the winter season. Fortunately I have a caravan at Bisley so that during the Spring, Summer and Autumn I can more or less live on the range and shoot most weekends and one afternoon a week. I still wish that I had access to a local range to shoot small bore though. Some Clubs just don't do anything to encourage shooters or retain the ones that they have.

But on the bright side, Steve, old committee members tend to die off....

Shift work is fine if you're just a recreational shooter, but for serious competition involvement, no hope....

Sim G wrote:But on the bright side, Steve, old committee members tend to die off....

Shift work is fine if you're just a recreational shooter, but for serious competition involvement, no hope....

Unfortunately I am a very serious competition shooter and shift work does play havoc at times.
Still by being at Bisley a lot I mange to shoot TR for GB. and England so it is not all bad.