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SOF | OF SPORT: RIFLE CLUB
OFRC Rorke’s Drift
university area of the city occupied entirely
Wet range, about a twenty-minute drive
by the veterans and which became our
from the hotel. Situated on a South African
base for the next three weeks.
army base, it is a wide-open space, with
little shade and very few facilities. The
Then a day to sort out our kit, reassemble
facilities that did exist were basic and
ri昀氀es carefully packed for the long journey,
best avoided. But care had to be taken
and stock up our vehicles with supplies
if venturing into the bush as there has
for days on the range. One problem
been a big increase in the Pu昀昀 Adder
with shooting tours is that you can’t pack
population. The range is wide and starts
a su昀케ciency of anything, as kit takes
from 300 metres (not yards!) going back
precedence and thus, shops were visited
to 900 metres. It can accommodate all
for everything from sun protection to range
the competitors in two details, shooting
chairs, toiletries, and even underwear. Our
from reasonably comfortable gravel 昀椀ring
carefully made ammunition, tuned to each
points.
ri昀氀e, had been shipped out previously, and
there were sighs of relief when it was safely
We soon came face-to-face with what
delivered.
was to prove our biggest adversary:
the heat. Day after day the ambient
Shooting takes place on the General de
temperature in the shade was in the high
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