Bell Target Shooting.

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Thanks, that does help, you can probably see why I and others were confused. May have been easier to post link initially to save time in explaining it later. Looks really interesting, I am fairly new to hft and won't be taking up another discipline any time soon but like the communal feel of this and the history of being part of the pub and social club scene. Noticed one of the older posts said you may be starting in a church hall. Good luck to you and good on you for taking the initiative.

Thanks Baron,

We are brand new to Bell Target Shooting and trying to get it started in an area with no Bell Target Activity to refer to.

This thread has been a great help to me, and although it seems like most exisiting leagues all have their own individual quirks with slightly differing rules, it has also led me to concentrate not on any of these differences - but on the huge similarities!

I like the "character" of these slight variants and think it can be likened to a regional accent - and also think it is very desirable to keep them all alive!

No member of any league would feel totally "at sea" if visiting another league for a match, and might even enjoy the small changes encountered between the (slightly) different rules.

I think there are enough hard core similarities for any teams and competitors from any of the leagues to be able to shoot against each other at an open meeting using just about any variant of the slightly differing rules.

Our new league will also add a few small quirks of our own - mainly to suite what we already have, what we would like to see, and to only allow the use of .177 rifles that by definition are not likely to cost any more than £300, and can all be found for considerably less.

Perhaps at a later date we may have enough competitors to warrant the inclusion of the more expensive current match rifles, but right now the Classic types with their lower price tags is where we want to be, and will give us the best chance of gaining some support.

Likewise - we would love to have a lot of the wonderful original and very desirable Bell Targets - but we don't have any - and they fetch (very) good prices at auctions - so we are using the excellent "value for money" Red Rob Bell Targets as we know there are several Mk 7 and Mk 8 targets in this area, and they can be bought new and delivered to the doorstep for less than ninety quid, so we will use these and include the extra scoring ring that they all have in our rules.

I will also continue to "listen and learn"and make any adjustments to our own verison of the rules when it makes sense to do so - but not just to "comply" as that seems to run against the flow of the individual rules that may have also been "questioned" when they were written, but are now enjoyed by those that shoot to them each week.