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Hi,
...locally, means a thousand miles from you, here in the Lublin region.
A siezable group of students from the local Uni was very anthusiastic about the prospect of shooting "real guns". Eventually, I met at our meeting point, the locall petrol station, some five poor, soggy souls plus their chief ;-). After a cop-of-coffee-wait-and-hope time we set off to my range, some 30 km away.

No particularily emotional shooting for me, I had to watch those poor wet chicken, but I think they thoroughly enjoyed it - for most of them it was the first smell of cordite (sort of ;-), didn't take my No. 4 with me, don't have any cordite stuffed stuff :-(). They got to shoot the AKs and AKMs, the clunky CZ 75s, some had a go at my Mosin, some adventurous and feeling warmer, had a shot at some boxes with a shotgun, nobody wanted to try my Taurus in .357 6" - I wonder...

Gosh, no bloodthirsty commando types, no olypic champions, lots of fun, friendly fire ;-), firendly athmosphere and fried kielbasa. That what they saw, it IS always like that!

Why I write about it? Somehow the moments like this sink into my mind, after weeks and years I remember them, those quiet moments on the range (I just got accustomed to the shots and don't treat tham as noise :-D), interspred with moments of competitive concentration and banter and laughter, sometimes music and dance, believe it or not. It is the dying sort of pastime, shooting. Few seem to be interested, it leaves an empty range for me, but I'm not longer overjoyed at the prospect.
The pictures galery:
http://www.kul.pl/zajecia-na-strzelnicy ... 14031.html

That looks like a great day! Glad they all enjoyed themselves.
My local club always seems to be busy on "club days" and we always seem to be looking for new members. The rules are just so strict that we can't arrange to introduce new shooters outside of our allotted slots, which don't work for everyone.

I do love this though, hope you educated him

I couldn't, he was to bendy ;-).

Salut,

Looks like they enjoyed themself and that you did a good job

The targets are interesting.
Can you tell me where I can get some from?
Tony

They are military 23p targets. I'm not sure if they are available in the UK. Over here I've just found:
http://www.strzelnica.hg.pl/109tarcze.htm - our local supplier
http://www.tarczestrzeleckie.com/848-ta ... ierza.html - a more regular sort of on line vendor.
Hmmm... strangely, I can't google up any other places on-line that stock them.
You could always pop in for a cup of tea, a Saturday full of shooting and collect the targets on your flight back ;-). It's just a short hop from Luton or Stansted to Lublin :-D.

How far from the airport to your range?

Some 40 km according to:

http://goo.gl/maps/wYhPe

The flights are a bit rubbish to Lublin, how about a lift from Warsaw?

Warsaw is not too bad a drive especially if you split the driving.
In fact I plan on going back there as I found it extremely interesting.
Especially when I found the Polish army museum was round the corner from my hotel!
I will see if I can get some of those targets.
Need to keep the club members on their toes!
Tony