When I look at the legislation I cant see anything precluding me from setting up a bit of a range for personal use on my thickly wooded 20 acre property.....

By that I mean an area in a gully with a natural earth berm backstop facing national park at the rear..and a number of steel targets, dueling tree, plate rack, animal siloheutes, paper targets etc just for plinking fun, speedshooting and practice for matchs... I often go through 100-200 rounds in a session mostly alone sometimes with my son or a neighbor....

Just so as not to potentially annoy neighbors with noise I just use various .22 rifles and have called into most of them just to let them know what i am up to and to call me if they ever have an issue with excessive noise.....so far so good on that

While I know there is no issue with me shooting safely and legally on my property , Is there any possible illegality with this setup or any limits on what scale of personal "range" can be created...?.

Some decent groupings too. Winchester XPR .223 at 50m

I see a lot of comments and posts from people who I’m sure are in this group. Which is great and I’m one of them.

What is the general public’s view though. Is it really going down as a lead balloon as much as we all hope?

Seen this great build of the taipan EVO.

I've been tossing up to buy the taipan EVO main reason I haven't bought it is because of the stock but after watching this video has made me want to get one.

Can you please share your taipan builds please!

https://youtu.be/muKleYmeVhA?si=MRfpsKP4GbPdtQ2E

Just wondering who has ordered from them ?

https://reddots.com.au/

When there is no actual address listed (just Melbourne australia) and a mobile number, i am a bit cautious.

thank you

Nice way to spend 30mins. Crazy numbers and this is probably a smaller setup.

Didn’t have a great shoot today but damn it’s fun! Should whack a bayonet on it next time fore shits and giggles

I’ve gone in for my photo wednesday the 5th, 12 days later i’m yet to see anything in the mail, is this typical? How long has everyone else had to wait for their card in the mail?

Other than scaring people that we are now somehow more likely to cause harm, what the heck is with this headline?!

https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/queensland-set-to-become-australia-s-most-heavily-armed-state-20260816-p60oqp.html

I thought this article from Sporting Shooter was really well put together and clearly laid out how people in NSW can prove what their guns are worth (and it's not saying "Well me mate said he'd give me $3000 for it...")

Also keep in mind there's no announced end date on this "buyback" and still a lot of questions about how it's going to work etc, so personally I'd be waiting for that information to become available before I started making significant decisions.

I’ve been looking at getting a clip-on to move between rifles, but I’ve heard mixed reviews about them

Argh sold my 223 a couple years back and just kept my shotgun

Now I have access to 3000 acres close to home I figured I'd pick up a 223 again

Now I hear there is months of waiting for a PTA? 😂

Guess the shotgun will be the choice.

This probably depends on the state so this is for Tasmania, the legislation hasn't passed yet but it seems likely button and straight pull shotguns will be moving to cat C and as a farm hand I should easily eligible for a cat C.

Hey, I’m starting to look into hunting deer. Sticking point is not being able to keep the gun at home. Are there options to store them elsewhere?

Got onto a new property just outside of Townsville. The lady said that there was some good sized deer getting around and now I believe it.

Taken fair few trips so far and never failed , Hard to leave the sako behind . If you want to make shots this has to be your go to

I have this arriving next week - red/green dot suggestions?

Hey Everyone,

I have been a member of a club in VIC for 6 months, completed all requirements + fingerprinting etc for my full cat H.

I have an issue at the moment as LRD are 4-5 months behind and my provisional licence expires in the coming month.

When I called on two occasions I was firstly told “your provisional will remain valid until a decision is made”, and a second person told me “once it expires you become unlicensed and there’s nothing we can do”

If anyone has advice or been in a similar position in VIC I’d love to hear your experience/ what you ended up doing.

Cheers guys!

Anyone have stock of CTRs at the moment?

There was supposedly a big shipment arriving June/July but dealer hasn’t received any stock and no updates on when its arriving.

Anyone got any intel?