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NZ wide Hunting & Shooting Organisations
Check these national organisations to see if you can find a club in your local area.
To enquire about clubs in your area, please contact us.
Airsoft
Airsoft is a modern combat sport or recreational hobby in which participants eliminate opponents by hitting each other with spherical non-metallic pellets launched from a compressed-air gun (or Soft Air gun) powered by gas, manual spring-load, or an electrically powered gearbox. Airsoft participants organize meetings, either indoors or outdoors, at dedicated airsoft battlefields to play a variety of games ranging from short-term skirmishes, organized scenarios, military simulations, or historical reenactments. Combat situations on the battlefield often involve the use of common military tactics to achieve the objectives set in each game. Participants typically use varying types of weaponry designed as replicas of real firearms, tactical gear, and accessories used by modern military and police organizations.
Web: www.nzairsoft.co.nz
Email: info@nzairsoft.co.nz
The New Zealand Black Powder Shooters Federation Inc.
The New Zealand Black Powder Shooters Federation Inc provides information to help shooters develop and promote their interest in all forms of black powder shooting in New Zealand.
Their constitutional aim is to promote black powder shooting at all levels within New Zealand and to ensure that NZ shooters are able to participate in national and international competition. They hold annual National and North & South Island rifle, pistol, shot gun and long range championships run to local and international rules as formulated by the NZBPSF and the International Black Powder Shooting Organisation ( MLAIC ).
They also support a number of ‘primitive rendezvous’ each year throughout NZ and especially the “NZ Mountain Man Event", shot over the Christmas and New Year period and the (Mid) Winter Mountain Man event over Queens Birthday weekend in June. They also import firearms of .50 caliber and larger, hammer shotguns (breech, flint and percussion) and aim to have to have the best bp ownership laws in the world.
NZ Clay Target Association
Clay pigeon shooting, also known as clay target shooting, and formally known as Inanimate Bird Shooting, is the art of shooting a shotgun at special flying targets, known as clay pigeons or clay targets.
The terminology commonly used by clay shooters often relates to times past, when live-pigeon competitions were held. Although such competitions were made illegal in the UK in 1921, a target may still be called a "bird", a hit may be referred to as a "kill", and a missed target as a "bird away"; the machine which projects the targets is still known as a "trap".
There are over 100 clubs in NZ. Check out the club directory.
NZ Deerstalkers Association
In May 1938, 130 deerstalkers met in Invercargill for the official formation of the New Zealand Deerstalkers’ Association. Little could they have realised the crucial role this organisation was to play during the next 75 years in fighting for the very survival of New Zealand’s big game herds.
Since 1930 the big game animals of New Zealand have been classed as pests, with extermination the bottom line of government policy. In turn deer culling, the use of aerial 1080 poison and commercial hunting, often from helicopters to ensure wholesale slaughter, were promoted by public authorities as ways of killing off these animals.
The New Zealand Deerstalkers’ Association has been involved in campaigns to save the wapiti herd of Fiordland, the rusa deer of the Ureweras, the sambar of the Manawatu, and the thar of South Canterbury.
The switch in recent years from an extermination policy to big-game management and the creation of recreational hunting areas, and the formation of the Game Animal Council are due in a large part to the work of NZDA members.
There are over 50 active clubs throughout New Zealand.
Phone: 04 801 7367
National Rifle Association
In 1861 Governor Gore Browne presented a belt as a prize for the best shot in the country, to be decided at an annual competition for militia and volunteers. On the same day, 885 competitors in their own districts throughout New Zealand, fired three rounds each at 100, 200 and 300 yards. The Champion Belt, Government Medal and prize money of £140 was won by Lieutenant Brighton of Auckland. NRANZ now possesses the medal won by Brighton - which is possibly the oldest existing sporting trophy in the country.
Target Rifle uses centre-fire rifles and is shot from the traditional prone (lying down) shooting position with no rest, using micrometer iron aperture sights and usually a sling attached to a shooting jacket to assist with holding and aiming.
Target Rifle is graded from Tyro, C, B and A grade. Tyro is the beginner level, usually for the first year of shooting, where the new marksperson is allowed the assistance of a wind instructor (coach). In outdoor shooting the wind is a major factor on the flight of the projectile, which means a large part of the skill of the sport is learning to adjust the sights to allow for this using various guides such as wind flags.
Over 25 clubs throughout NZ.
National Rifle Association of New Zealand (Inc)
Trentham, Upper Hutt 5143
Phone: (04) 528 4843
Email: secretary@nranz.org.nz
Web: www.nranz.org.nz
Pistol NZ
Target pistol shooting was introduced in New Zealand in 1968. By 1972 we had a pistol shooter at the Olympic Games.
Since that time target pistol shooting has developed in numbers and the types of events shot. New Zealand pistol shooters have competed successfully in many international events, winning many medals at Commonwealth Games, as well as World Championship medals in other pistol disciplines.
Pistol New Zealand has over 85 affiliated clubs throughout New Zealand, so no matter where you live, there will be a club near you.
Contact: Executive Officer, Phillip Brown
For any questions relating to this website or Pistol shooting.
Phone: (06) 870 7575
Web: www.pistolnz.org.nz
The New Zealand Shooting Federation (NZSF)
This the governing body of Target Shooting Sport in New Zealand. It consists of the following associations:
Click on these for links:
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National Rifle Association of New Zealand (NRANZ)
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New Zealand Clay Target Association (NZCTA
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New Zealand Pistol Association (NZPA)
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Target Shooting New Zealand Inc. (TSNZ)
These associations represent 250 clubs with 14,000 members.
Email: manager@shooting.org.nz
Target Shooting NZ (TSNZ)
TSNZ is the governing body for .22 small bore rifle, 25m indoor and 50m outdoor target shooting, together with .177 air rifle shooting.
TSNZ are directly affiliated to New Zealand Shooting Federation, which governs all Olympic and Commonwealth Games target shooting disciplines within New Zealand. With over 100 clubs in NZ there is sure to be one near you.
Email: targetshootingnz@xtra.co.nz
