What are the long range competition target shooting disciplines in Canada and N.A.

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I've been in archery competition shooting for over 15 years and travelled for tournaments year around,,, but do to severe surgeries I had to gave up drawing bows.
Fine, lets go airgun shooting, but that wasn't simple as well since early 2020 all clubs got penalized with this popular C19 fbs regulations. Finally I got to secure a spot @ my local shooting range (SGC) and doing these days the mandatory sign-offs, have not seen anybody shooting airguns there only rolling eyes when I tell them about my plans :).
100-2-3-400 meters would be available for practice and training, but I don't own a powderburner. I can do target practice 100-150 with my PCP FX Impact MK2 and definitely this would be a way more economical vs burning primers.
If the results (in scoring) are promising I may consider buying a target rifle, but I don't like furnitures, I like the take-down compacts and modular - chassis guns.
Educate me first what disciplines and what calibers we have here "locally" in this continent for competition shooting? so I can build up a business case and make carrot for myself.
 
Check out the Ontario Rifle Association. Although COVID has taken it's toll on range access lately the main ranges use in most events are at CFB Borden. I would caution about spending any money on rifles and equipment until you take in an Introductory Day. There are several disciplines available from Target Rifle (prone with iron sights from 300 to 1000 yards) to F-Class (same as target rifle except with scope and front rest) to Precision Rifle (sniper type matches) and Service Conditions. All require a different style rifle.
 
I cannot see the iron sight my hands are not long enough, but anything with a nice lens scope I can play.
I am not planning to buy now anything, let me spend my 10K pellets first I have collected along this past one year waiting for a big Start. A big Reset how some may call it.
I was shooting the mandatory 100 meter rifle shots with some cheep RF bullets these two weeks, those were flying inconsistent like s*t.... my .25 cal JSB pellets have a better BC. And the 10K pack didn't costed me $500 CAD.
 
Modern iron sights in TR run a diopter lens in either the front or rear tube so your vision should not be a huge problem. The sight picture and focus works very differently from a traditional iron sight or even peep sight setup. Look through one - smallbore 22 or the TR 223/308 amd you will see what I mean.
 
To see what I am holding in my hands I must wear reading glasses and I just hate to take them on and off, the glass always greasy like pigs were chewing it. I have couple progressive glasses but hate to wear during day, sometimes only overnight driving to watch my odometer :)
On the other end I have more scopes then rifles where to mount on, all these are pretty decent quality Japanese and Euro glass. I got used to a high power, my favourite is the Falcon X50 and this one shall work up to 400 pretty well.
 
oneadam12 is correct about iron sights. With the rear sight 2-4 inches from your face you really do not focus on it, you just look through the hole. By reducing the hole size in the rear (iris) this brings the front sight into focus. And with the help of a .3 or .5 diopter eagle eye in the front sight this helps you to see the target. Front sight is also an iris to allow you to vary the amount of white that you see around the black aiming mark. Now even though you have a rear sight, front sight and target that all have to be in line the only thing that you have to focus on is the front sight.
I usually wear progressive bifocals for every day use, but just wear my distance correction in a Knobloch shooting frame to shoot. Makes having to have a magnifying glass handy to check the scale on the rear sight and the score book is a little blurry.
 
I am trying to learn now the Streloc Pro app...and btw I suck with learning new things @ my 61. My favorite scope is a SFP x50, I will have to sight it in with a new setup, I will need to get on paper @ 50 first, then 100 and 20 to allign the rails first. Onse these done I will be riding the turrets vs holdovers, this app is all my hope. Only to figure how to...
 
bigHUN said:
I cannot see the iron sight my hands are not long enough, but anything with a nice lens scope I can play.
I am not planning to buy now anything, let me spend my 10K pellets first I have collected along this past one year waiting for a big Start. A big Reset how some may call it.
I was shooting the mandatory 100 meter rifle shots with some cheep RF bullets these two weeks, those were flying inconsistent like s*t.... my .25 cal JSB pellets have a better BC. And the 10K pack didn't costed me $500 CAD.
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I have been shooting irons with very heavy bifocals for a long time now as I am getting up in age. I have to ensure that my glasses arre centered properly, at times if I wear muffs they get skewed and my optical center gets out of alignment. For the most part it is not an issue.
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Cat, get yourself a pair of Knobloch shooting frames, you will thank me later. A lens for distance and a small hand held magnifying glass to help read the vernier on the sights.
 
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