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    A Great Little Austrian Shooting Range

    Dear all,

    This post may bore some of you guys but I just wanted to post these pictures as I had such a great time at this place for the second time in 8 weeks.

    I was looking for a shooting club to join in Austria and I had been to one club in the west near Salzburg. Whilst it was very nice with wonderful clean facilities, both indoor and out, the mainstay of the shooting there was smallbore .22 rifle and pistol with a few people shooting wad cutters in a .38 special.

    Whilst pretty, nothing too awe inspiring. No chance to shoot the 98k or anything bigger than 9mm/.38, and no jacketed rounds either.

    Then my dear forum friend Ostmark told me he was going to take me to a very good little club somewhere near the mountains in the south of lower Austria, and indeed he did !

    I have only pics of the bottom half of the range here but their is a club house (behind and above these firing points shown) with an indoor firing point for 100 and 200 meters that fire over the top of this little range shown here. No calibre restrictions at all on any firing point and nobody cares what you shoot as long as you are safe.

    Best of all in true Austrian fashion people go and shoot a few rounds then sit outside the club house on nice days on a few well laid out tables and chairs (under a roof) and drink beer ! This is followed by more shooting, then....more....beer!

    This makes this place heaven for me ! If its raining then you can go inside and sit on yet more tables (munich beer hall style) and drink yet more beer. The walls are covered in trophies and their are lots of nice things to look at...

    I appreciate that in many parts of the world this would be regarded as normal but remember folks, us guys in the UK have lost most of the places we had like this after the pistol ban, and for a Brit this was a real treat. Best of all I became a member !

    Just wanted to say a public thank you to Ostmark for introducing me to this place and to share with other forum members.

    Regards Craig

    Bewahren der historischen Waffen in England und in Österreich.

    P.S.My girlfriends flat is only 10 minutes away by car and I do have a guest room available but Adrian Stevenson is first in the que !
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    Getting to grips with my new purchase...a 1976 commercial model P38.
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      Right side of the range.
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        Ostmarks' PPsh 41 style replica....all you rats be very careful he can empty a mag in the blink of an eye !
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          At 15 meters I better get more practise with that P38 (eight round mag only) .
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            and finally....another club member allowed me to shoot his Steyr AUG (Stg 77). Although this one is only semi-auto the owner could shoot it very well and very quick indeed when shot as fast as he could pull the trigger.
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              Beautiful gun range! The vegetation is impressive. You guys are so fortunate to live in such a beautiful part of the world. Do you have to have membership in the club to shoot? How many members/shooters are part of this range? Is skeet/trap/sporting clays a popular sport too? Very nice, thanks for posting.
              When you go home
              Tell them for us and say
              For your tomorrow
              We gave our today

              --Inscription in the 5th Marine Division cemetery,
              Iwo Jima 1945

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                Hi Walter

                You can shoot on that range without beeing member, thats no problem. At this point of time i think there are ~100 members but i am not sure. In the near of that shooting range there is another one, a much bigger one. There you can shoot trap/skeet. But i dont like that range very much. Its good for shooting the sniper rifles, but i prefer this little shooting range, because there you can shoot every gun and you can bring your own targets like beer cans, and thats a lot of fun

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                  Hi Craig, it looks a really nice venue. I will certainly be taking you up on the offer


                  Cheers, Ade.

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                    Originally posted by Adrian Stevenson
                    Hi Craig, it looks a really nice venue. I will certainly be taking you up on the offer


                    Cheers, Ade.
                    I agree. It looks like a great place. If I lived in that area, I would definitely be there too!
                    When you go home
                    Tell them for us and say
                    For your tomorrow
                    We gave our today

                    --Inscription in the 5th Marine Division cemetery,
                    Iwo Jima 1945

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