Chris

If you just want a plink and a bit of fun then OK, but realistically you struck the nail clean on the head with your last statement, it is so far removed that you will not even get an idea of the discipline. If you just try with a sporting rifle you will be turned off quickly in the belief that it is impossible, and in a club with no experience or coaching you will learn nothing.

10 mt Air rifle is very specialised and so are the rifles, it is very demanding, highly technical and totaly addictive when you learn correctly, if you start correctly you will be hooked, and will want to learn and develop, the ten is 0.5 mm across and to be competitive you must frighten it a lot!

I spend a lot of time coaching 10mt Rifle, from beginners, up to elite level, the best advice I can give you is to find a local club that shoots it properly and go visit them. You are in Kent, I believe there always used to be an active club in Ashford.

Good shooting and good luck

Robin