Dual Stop Butts

[Walt]

Is anyone aware of any rifle range in Australia that incorporates a dual, in line, Stop Butt system? Walt

[Barry Davies]

Geelong has a fixed, covered shooting mound and a separate stop butt for each distance out to 900 yds.
There are a couple of others --North Arm I think is one, Cannon Hill at Belmont is another.

[lonerider43]

hows that work baz ?
is there any pictures that show it ?

[scott/r]

Yeh, we shoot 600yrds on our main butts at North Arm and a hundred yrds further up the range is our 700yrd butts, shot from the same mound as we shoot 600.

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Sorry for the shitty photo, but, 600 is below the first lot of numbers and 700 is above the second set. Both shot from the same mound.

[Barry Davies]

Lonerider,
Go to the VRA web site and click on rifle ranges -Map -then Geelong> an excellent photo shows you how.
Barry

[lonerider43]

thanks guys,ive never seen that before...

as a bit of a side question: what ever happened to the stockton rifle range near newy ?
my dad and granddad used to shoot there...

[scott/r]

Stockton shut down in 1997 and I beleive is now a housing development after the military sold off the land.
Well, so I've been told by family down there.
Scott.

[lonerider43]

bugga,that was the first range i have memories of back in the 70's


ps: my apologies Walt.

[David C]

Pinjar in WA 72 targets wide from the same shooting mound that is 300m long and able to shoot 3 x 20 target ranges at the same time from 300m out to 900m

[bsouthernau]

There are a couple of others --North Arm I think is one, Cannon Hill at Belmont is another.

Sad to say Cannon Hill no longer. No more Match Rifle in Brisbane.

[browniedog]

We at Crows Nest Goombungee have a dual stop buts