mda998 Posted October 19, 2013 Report Share Posted October 19, 2013 (edited) Crikey how how much do these places chargeCambridge gun club £55 ( £50 renewal) same targets week in week out, a gun shop thats rarely open and split in 2 different areas then pay extra for tea and coffee!! ( get home and have to defume all your clothes from the smell of FRIED FOOD)Sporting targets £60 ( £50 renewal) loads of variety and loads of towers plus free tea and coffee (propper coffee) and a gun shop thats open all day and under 1 roof, also very welcoming members of staffsurely a no brainerwhat about your areas? Edited October 19, 2013 by mda998 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will Poon Posted October 19, 2013 Report Share Posted October 19, 2013 At my club it's £70 per year and £50 renewal (i think, can't remember ) Members have discounted rate at 22p per clay where as non members pay 27p per clay also discounts on cartridges, this is at Coniston shooting ground Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VicW Posted October 19, 2013 Report Share Posted October 19, 2013 (edited) Orston Shooting Ground, near Grantham. £25 membership initially, £20 renewal. 50p discount off 25 bird rounds, £1 discount off 40 bird sporting. Catering and gunshop and clubhouse are excellent. Vic, Edited October 19, 2013 by VicW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mda998 Posted October 19, 2013 Author Report Share Posted October 19, 2013 Orston Shooting Ground, near Grantham. £25 membership initially, £20 renewal. 50p discount off 25 bird rounds, £1 discount off 40 bird sporting. Catering and gunshop and clubhouse are excellent. Vic, been there lots of times brilliant place (very clean, good food, nice people and also NO FRIED FOOD SMELL which is a bonus) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sitsinhedges Posted October 19, 2013 Report Share Posted October 19, 2013 Kibworth is fair enough. £40 membership and clays for £22/100 friendly staff and quite laid back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaun4860 Posted October 19, 2013 Report Share Posted October 19, 2013 Orston Shooting Ground, near Grantham. £25 membership initially, £20 renewal. 50p discount off 25 bird rounds, £1 discount off 40 bird sporting. Catering and gunshop and clubhouse are excellent. Vic, Since PW held the charity shoot there our club has now an annual trip to Orston, (twice so far and again next year) One of the nicest friendliest clubs Ive been to. Our club is £60 per year (£30 for juniors) £6 per week to shoot (£3 for juniors) £9 for non members (£4.50 for juniors), this gets you 50 clays of varying disciplines, we are lease time restricted so normally you only get 1 round in, (1 round can be...either 50 sporting, 25 DTL & 25 ABT, 25 Skeet and either 25 Compact or 25 DTL Sandwiches are £1.20, pop is 50p and proper tea and coffee is free Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bostonmick Posted October 19, 2013 Report Share Posted October 19, 2013 in lincs I use manby gun club 25.a year and 3.00 a round skeet and fen clay boston 40.00 per year and 5.00 per round of 40 sporting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted October 19, 2013 Report Share Posted October 19, 2013 Billy Bell at yarmouth.........£ 5.00 a round help yourself on targets mix and match high tower game sporting and skeet open 7 days a week....if you want a tea and a fag drop round and see billy dont put the money in the box...........it was the first skeet range in the uk set up by the american oilies when they hit town in the oil boom...billy is an ex gipsy and a true gentleman always has gundogs wippets and lurchers in and out of his house...and has shot with all the titled famlies of this county no joining fee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chesterse Posted October 19, 2013 Report Share Posted October 19, 2013 Can't agree with the comments on Cambridge Gun Club, it's one of the few grounds where there is serious investment a going on. There is a little bit of "work in progress" , but every time I go which is every few weeks there is some improvement made. The staff are really friendly and they have a huge range of targets to shoot at, so if they don't change them every week, there must be plenty to go at. If membership prices are too expensive, then don't become a member and pay the extra few bob for a round. Any ground becomes familiar so a group of us try to go somewhere different every week over a month then start again, by that time things should have changed a bit. Sporting Targets is on the whole excellent but they have been established a number of years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIGHTCHOKE Posted October 19, 2013 Report Share Posted October 19, 2013 Sporting Targets is just about the best ground you will find. As said above Cambridge Gun Club has great aspirations and is moving in the right direction. Orston is a cracking place, great for practice on a Wednesday afternoon. Kibworth has always lacked that certain something and is a scruffy ground. As for the payment of an annual membership and the relevant savings possible, that requires a little working out. If you join and don't go to that ground often enough to save your initial expenditure you need to think again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catamong Posted October 19, 2013 Report Share Posted October 19, 2013 Can't agree with the comments on Cambridge Gun Club, it's one of the few grounds where there is serious investment a going on. There is a little bit of "work in progress" , but every time I go which is every few weeks there is some improvement made. The staff are really friendly and they have a huge range of targets to shoot at, so if they don't change them every week, there must be plenty to go at. If membership prices are too expensive, then don't become a member and pay the extra few bob for a round. Any ground becomes familiar so a group of us try to go somewhere different every week over a month then start again, by that time things should have changed a bit. Sporting Targets is on the whole excellent but they have been established a number of years. Absolutely spot on, they are trying really hard at Cambridge GC, if the OP doesn't rate the place then he clearly doesn't have much experience of shooting different grounds..?? Don't forget, these places are run as a business, not a charity, if your rear end feels a tad sore after visiting Cambridge GC, then come on down to EJ Churchills, or any number of other grounds around London, after you've paid their prices and savoured their hospitality they'll have to carry you back to your car, with plenty of vaseline and padding to make your journey back to the fens a comfortable one..... Cat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ehb102 Posted October 20, 2013 Report Share Posted October 20, 2013 I don't see your problem with Cambridge Gun Club. Clays for members are 22p compared to ST's 24p and the stands at Cambridge change regularly and are interesting. I've not noticed them changing any less often than ST. I've never had a problem with the smell of fried food there, although that presumably depends on what people are ordering. Certainly I noticed the smell at Kibworth. Complaining that they have a separate shop for clothing seems a bit odd. And as for paying for coffee, I've had to pay everywhere I've been apart from AGL who make that cost back on the price of everything else. Sporting Targets have a tower,and Cambridge don't, that's true. Also Cambridge shop sometimes isn't staffed and you have to ask at reception, that's also true. That wouldn't put me in a particularly negative frame of mind though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phaedra1106 Posted October 20, 2013 Report Share Posted October 20, 2013 Beamish Sporting Club (County Durham) have a large shipping container which has been fitted out with seating and 2 lovely ladies who cook sausage, bacon and egg sandwiches as well as tea, coffee and pop. It's not glamorous by any means or as big as some of the other local clubs but is a really nice friendly club and it's a pleasure shoot there. They have 4 stands within a section of Slaley Forest and a separate practice trap, a round of 50 birds is £5 and it's £1 for 10 on the practice trap, membership is £25 and we shoot every 2 weeks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAMMER BURT Posted October 20, 2013 Report Share Posted October 20, 2013 cambridge gun club was £35 quid last year for full membership so it has gone up in price by £20 quid, but they are investing so much time and money at the moment on getting the ground looking good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aris Posted October 20, 2013 Report Share Posted October 20, 2013 £150 at AGL (www.agl-uk.com) £100 if two or more people join together. You do get perks though, and is it well run. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mda998 Posted October 20, 2013 Author Report Share Posted October 20, 2013 Absolutely spot on, they are trying really hard at Cambridge GC, if the OP doesn't rate the place then he clearly doesn't have much experience of shooting different grounds..?? Don't forget, these places are run as a business, not a charity, if your rear end feels a tad sore after visiting Cambridge GC, then come on down to EJ Churchills, or any number of other grounds around London, after you've paid their prices and savoured their hospitality they'll have to carry you back to your car, with plenty of vaseline and padding to make your journey back to the fens a comfortable one..... Cat. have done my fair share of travelling the country thanks! just merely putting the point out that 'LOCALS' are your bread and butter to keep things ticking over when someone like you from hertfordshire cant be bothered to go there that weekend Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
docholiday Posted October 20, 2013 Report Share Posted October 20, 2013 Absolutely spot on, they are trying really hard at Cambridge GC, if the OP doesn't rate the place then he clearly doesn't have much experience of shooting different grounds..?? Don't forget, these places are run as a business, not a charity, if your rear end feels a tad sore after visiting Cambridge GC, then come on down to EJ Churchills, or any number of other grounds around London, after you've paid their prices and savoured their hospitality they'll have to carry you back to your car, with plenty of vaseline and padding to make your journey back to the fens a comfortable one..... Cat. so true, at Churchill's you do have a superb setting and its done very well, you get what you pay for some people just want something for nothing. The investment in some of these clubs is huge, why ?? so someones business can make a profit. plenty of cheap and cheerful s out there for all pockets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mda998 Posted October 20, 2013 Author Report Share Posted October 20, 2013 so true, at Churchill's you do have a superb setting and its done very well, you get what you pay for some people just want something for nothing. The investment in some of these clubs is huge, why ?? so someones business can make a profit. plenty of cheap and cheerful s out there for all pockets. there is a global recession, surely its not that people want things for nothing just value for money Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
docholiday Posted October 20, 2013 Report Share Posted October 20, 2013 Thank you for highlighting my main point at least thats what I assume you wanted to do Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mda998 Posted October 20, 2013 Author Report Share Posted October 20, 2013 yawn i bet you are a member of your local parish council aswell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
docholiday Posted October 20, 2013 Report Share Posted October 20, 2013 He He dont you just love people who want everything for doing nothing and have no powers of argument or discussion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mda998 Posted October 20, 2013 Author Report Share Posted October 20, 2013 have you ever shot at my local clubs just out of interest (this is not a witch hunt) just merely pointing things out in my local area what about you local grounds as this is where the thread should be going, not hijacking because you have no real input Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
docholiday Posted October 20, 2013 Report Share Posted October 20, 2013 errrrr try reading the posts I have mentioned Churchills which has excellent facilities, and for that they charge in my opinion an appropriate price, otherwise there several cheaper options such as Ringwood, no membership charge and any number in between with few facilities and appropriate fees I will have to ask the Parish if I would get elected. Thankfully there are people who are prepared to do such volunteer work for the benefit of others Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mda998 Posted October 20, 2013 Author Report Share Posted October 20, 2013 sorry must have misread i thought you just totally agreed with something and someone just to follow like a sheep Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mda998 Posted October 20, 2013 Author Report Share Posted October 20, 2013 He He dont you just love people who want everything for doing nothing and have no powers of argument or discussion just been looking at your other posts on here and suprise suprise they all seem to start with 'totally agree' or ' spot on fella' like i said a true sheep baa baa baa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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