Big hello from Melbourne

sniper_beast · Post by **sniper_beast** » Sat Mar 06, 2010 4:40 pm

Gday guys,

My names Matt, I'm 18, studing an Advanced diploma in mechanical engineering and I love my shooting. I've been looking to get into some long range competion and I'm not really sure where to start, So I got recomended to this forum. I do most of my shooting at the SSAA little river range down near avalon and I've got a Tikka T3 Stainles Varmint in .308, thats about it I think.

cheers

Lynn Otto · Post by **Lynn Otto** » Sat Mar 06, 2010 6:23 pm

Welcome to the forum Matt, it's nice to meet you and to see another young shooter who's enthusiastic. I'm not in Vic but hopefully some of our Victorian members will poke theirs heads in to say 'hi' at some point. In the mean time have a look around, there's plenty of info available on the site. If you have any specific questions don't be afraid to ask.

Lynn

Peter Hulett · Post by **Peter Hulett** » Sat Mar 06, 2010 7:28 pm

Hello Matt.

If you already shoot at Little River then your best bet is to head to us at Anakie East just a little bit further down the Bacchus Marsh Rd. We are the Geelong Rifle Club and we shoot from 300m to 900m every saturday. It is a fully electronic range and because of our unique setup you can shoot any distance on any saturday. You are not locked into a club shooting program.

More information is available on our website www.geelongrifleclub.asn.au
or PM me for more information.

Peter Hulett · Post by **Peter Hulett** » Sat Mar 06, 2010 8:27 pm

Matt, I probably should have mentioned that Geelong is basically a scoped rifle club. There are two of us dinosaurs who persist with iron sights (Target rifle) but all of our other members are competing in scope class (F and F-open). This is not the usual ratio of shooters in clubs in Victoria

sniper_beast · Post by **sniper_beast** » Sun Mar 07, 2010 10:15 pm

Thanks for the welcome,
I'll have to show my face down at the Geelong range one of these days and check things out

Also would you be able to recommend a gunsmith who works on Tikka's in Victoria?

Woody_rod · Post by **Woody_rod** » Sun Mar 07, 2010 11:09 pm

Hello Matt,

Nice name (Sniper beast), you must play COD6 or Crysis Wars maybe?? Would be suitable there.....

The Tikka is a pretty good rifle for the price.

Paul Janzso · Post by **Paul Janzso** » Mon Mar 08, 2010 8:56 am

Hi Matt

Welcome to the ozfclass forum.

You made a good choice buying a Tikka, especially in 308. I have a Tikka Tactical in 223 and I used it in F Class Team matches and it preformed very well.

We have 3 members at Murray Bridge Rifle Club that also have Tikka 308's, one who shot in the 1,000 yard Champ's on Saturday, Dave and he won the F Class Standard badge .

You say you want to have work done on the rifle, what were you thinking of doing to it? In my opinion, I would get a 20 min. tapered Nightforce flat base to replace the standard picatinny base fitted. Work out a good load, shoot it and learn the art of wind reading .

Cheers
Paul

sniper_beast · Post by **sniper_beast** » Mon Mar 08, 2010 4:00 pm

Yeah I'll admit the name is pretty childish :oops:

kinda been using it on forums and the like since i was about 14 (yeah I know, interesting story behind it though the sniper part well... being a 14 year old and all, but the beast part came from the cricket bat i was using at the time, the kookaburra beast :roll:

) I completely understand if you find it offensive or inapropriate, if so i'm not opposed to changing it

Well my tikka isn't exactly a factory setup, stock has been replaced and a few other minor things, but I'm looking at getting the trigger lightened up a little.

Lynn Otto · Post by **Lynn Otto** » Mon Mar 08, 2010 5:47 pm

Matt, there is absolutely nothing wrong with your name. When I first saw it, I smiled and had the thought that I should introduce you to my 19 yo. I have no problem with your name, I've seen stranger names around here so don't stress about it. If the administrator didn't like it he would have said so.

Lynn

Peter Hulett · Post by **Peter Hulett** » Mon Mar 08, 2010 8:28 pm

Matt,
See PM

RAVEN · Post by **RAVEN** » Mon Mar 08, 2010 9:45 pm

Actually Woody_Rod you might want to consider your tag may have a few connotations.

Go Shoot the Tikka
PJ has given some good advice we all start somewhere my first rifle was a 700 Sendaro 7mm Mag still use it occasionally at club shoots.
RB

Post by **AlanF** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 7:20 am

Lynn Otto wrote:...If the administrator didn't like it he would have said so...

As long as we all understand that this forum is about target shooting, then login names don't matter too much. Lynn, would you like yours changed to something more adventurous? :-k

Alan

Lynn Otto · Post by **Lynn Otto** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 7:33 am

I've considered this Alan, I play a couple mmorpg and have some interesting names... :-k

...nah I like who I am, I'm happy to stay being me.

sniper_beast · Post by **sniper_beast** » Wed Mar 10, 2010 5:38 pm

Cheers everyone, didn't really want to be offending anyone considering I'm new and all