Thinking of trying HFT

[ChrisC]

Simpilified, Sir Bob, we all know that plonkers, sorry plinkers, are the life blood of most airgun clubs.

That's it in a nutshell Ploppy

Emley has quite a large ground but number the club members to approx the 150 mark...that means we know each other, trust those in the club and get plenty of banter. We too have the mainstay plinkers but they pay the same subs as everyone else so have the same say and benefits but ARE the ones who financially keep the club afloat. As the major comp holding club in the NEFTA region we actually only have a handful of comp shooters....maybe 7 or 8 HFT shooter and the same FT wise. We're also lucky as our dedicated FT shooters will set out a HFT course and the HFT shooters will fine tune....and vice versa, in fact when the FT worlds will be in the UK in 2019 there will be a cluster of HFT shooters on the helping list.

Personally i think it's because we have a FT kneeling/standing class in our HFT comps and a SFT class in the FT winter league shoots....meaning the FT and HFT shooters mix and match. it's quite comical at our FT winter league shoots when you have a decent A grade FT shooter on the same lane as a good SFT shot and a strong recoiling shooter....talk about being focused.

[Prone Shooter]

That's it in a nutshell Ploppy

Emley has quite a large ground but number the club members to approx the 150 mark...that means we know each other, trust those in the club and get plenty of banter. We too have the mainstay plinkers but they pay the same subs as everyone else so have the same say and benefits but ARE the ones who financially keep the club afloat. As the major comp holding club in the NEFTA region we actually only have a handful of comp shooters....maybe 7 or 8 HFT shooter and the same FT wise. We're also lucky as our dedicated FT shooters will set out a HFT course and the HFT shooters will fine tune....and vice versa, in fact when the FT worlds will be in the UK in 2019 there will be a cluster of HFT shooters on the helping list.

Personally i think it's because we have a FT kneeling/standing class in our HFT comps and a SFT class in the FT winter league shoots....meaning the FT and HFT shooters mix and match. it's quite comical at our FT winter league shoots when you have a decent A grade FT shooter on the same lane as a good SFT shot and a strong recoiling shooter....talk about being focused.

Interesting numbers Chris, almost identical to our club with the same sort of numbers in each discipline.

Bob

[cooper_dan]

All good points, and I very rarely try to convert the happy plinkers into target shooters.

However the blog post was intended primarily for people who DO want to try HFT, but have a doubt in their mind that is stopping them.