Minehead Target Shooting Club
About the club
Minehead Target Shooting Club provides a facility for both airgun (rifle and pistol) and rimfire rifle shooters to practice and compete at multiple distances from 10 metres (.177 air pistol) to 50 metres (.22 rimfire rifle).
The Club is approved by the Home Office and undergoes regular checks by the Police to ensure compliance with regulations and health & safety requirements.
Club facilities are available for all ages and abilities – you can be a ‘hobby’ shooter (or even just use the range to zero or check your rifle or pistol) or a competitive shooter. Competitions are held at Club level, between local Clubs, County Clubs, and Nationally.
Purpose
The Club’s purpose is to promote and preserve the sport of target shooting for all.
Whilst guns may have originally been conceived with conflict in mind, throughout history there have been those who strove purely for accuracy, not lethality.
Modern target sports have developed to such a stage that electronic scoring is required as the difference between shots can no longer be measured by the eye, or hand; the modern target shooter strives for accuracy and consistency and must develop both a sense of their outer self in terms of their body position, and also of their inner self, in terms of mastering the mental challenges of remaining focussed, while relaxed and aware of all around them.
Modern target sports cover a multitude of disciplines including events at both the Winter and Summer Olympic Games; the Club’s own late President, Bob Churchill, represented Britain in the 1972 Games, and won Gold at the 1978 Seoul ISSF World Shooting Championships
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