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Beginners: Page 2. Shooting the first Stage. Who is the Range Officer? Identify the Range Officer and where they sit. Introduce yourself to the R/O. You are training your ears to hear what the R/O says, so that you will clearly hear R/O commands such as "Commence fire!" or "Cease fire!" If you have a problem such as the rifle not working properly, call out clearly "Range Officer!" Go to your shooting spot: Wait behind the red line. Now is a good time to turn off your mobile phone. Please keep in mind that it is sometimes not appropriate to photograph people in situations such as this.
Lie down behind your rifle: The Range Officer will say when it is safe to approach the rifles. Before shooting starts, the R/O will read a set of instructions similar to those in the pic at the bottom of this page. To reduce glare, the strong overhead lights on the verandah are turned down and shooting continues under a soft pink glow. Check where everything is before the lights go down.
Fill your magazine: Take 5 bullets out of your ammunition box. Slide them one at a time into the top of the magazine. The rim of the bullet indexes into a groove in the top of the magazine. Push the bullet down and back with your thumb.
Place rifle on stand: Check that the wood front part of the rifle (not the metal barrel) is sitting on the sock of sand. Press the rifle down a bit into the sock of sand. This stops the rifle toppling over sideways.
Put the bolt in the rifle: The bolt goes first. Put your finger on the trigger, check there is no one in the target area, and fully squeeze the trigger back. Now the bolt will slide into the rifle. Release the trigger. Slide the bolt back and forward, leave it fully back, open. (If you put the magazine in first, it will present a bullet and the rifle will automatically load that bullet as you put the bolt in). Put the magazine in the rifle: Look at the top bullet in the magazine, and turn it so that this bullet points toward the target. Now push the magazine up under the rifle into the magazine opening. Keep pushing carefully until it clicks in place. Wait: Wait until you are sure that the R/O has given the order to commence fire. If you are not sure, ask ... the R/O, or your coach ... or simply wait until someone else fires first. Now you are sure that it is safe to proceed. Lift the rifle to your shoulder: Use your right hand to lift the rifle to your shoulder. Make a fist with your left hand and put it under the rifle butt to hold the rifle butt up at the correct height. Look through the telescope, with your right eye. Left handed people: reverse all this. When a right handed person sets up their mat, as shown below, it is placed across the shooting space at an angle, because they lie at an angle behind the rifle. Left hand people start by placing the mat angling the other way, and then they lie out the other way, using their left hand on the trigger. If you have never ever picked up a rifle, go grab a broom and practice, on the floor, now. Use your maths textbooks as the stand to hold up the front of the broom.
Check your target number: If you shoot on someone elses target, they get the good score, and you get zero ... a miss. Aim at the centre black circle: Read the other section of this website, about target sights. Put the cross hairs of the telescope in the exact centre of the black dot. You should be able to slip two fingers down between your eye and the telescope.
Pull the rifle into your shoulder. Put a maths textbook on your shoulder. Feel the pressure. This is the correct pressure to use, when the rifle is pulled back into your shoulder with your right hand. Close the bolt: Only close the bolt of the rifle when the rifle is pointing directly at your target. With your right hand push the bolt handle fully forward, and then down. Breathe: Breathe in and out, in and out. Relax. Check your target number. Breathe in and out, stop breathing. .................................................... Fire the rifle: If you jerk the trigger you will pull the rifle off aim. If your finger freezes and will not make the trigger pull, relax, breathe and start again. Basically the trigger pull is like wiping honey off a piece of glass. Slowly and firmly increase the pressure on the trigger until the rifle fires. Stay: You are not hunting ... the target is not going to get up and run away. Put two text books on your shoulder. This is about the pressure that you will feel as the rifle fires. Keep looking through the telescope. Every sport has a "follow through", and in shooting the "follow through" is to stay behind the rifle looking through the sights. No flinch, no reaction at all. Open the bolt: Lift the bolt handle up and pull it slowly and firmly back. Claws on the front of the bolt drag the empty brass case out of the rifle (extraction) and toss it away to the right (ejection). Close the bolt and repeat, to fire the other 4 bullets: These first five bullets, in the centre black dot are called "sighters". They do not count for score. Open the bolt, remove the magazine: Under the rifle, in front of the magazine is a little lever. Hold this back, toward yourself with your trigger finger, and slide the magazine down, out of the rifle. .................................................... Reload the magazine with 5 more bullets: And put the magazine back into the rifle. Upper Left Target: Fire these 5 bullets into the upper left black dot. Reload the magazine with 5 more bullets: And put the magazine back into the rifle.
Put the blue Safety Flag back in the rifle. Parts of the rifle:
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