@Abacist and @MikeJenvey You may wish to read my post #68 on the Future of Shooting within in RAFAC thread. It’s not the rifles, its everything that goes along with it. Smallbore and fullbore TR is effectively dead; I know that the CCRS is fighting a rearguard action; and I think that air rifle is almost regarded as a distraction.
This isn’t a recent development, a few years ago I was involved in a British Shooting initiative to create links with the cadet forces. Other than the boarding school based elements it was met with a deafening silence.
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