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Chrisincanada
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Hello everyone, I am very interested in doing some target shooting, but being very new and not knowing where to even start I am here with many questions 
let me start off by saying i dont even know where i would go locally to find any kind of community for this kind of thing. I can tell you i have always loved shooting rifles, and since here in Canada the restrictions on hand guns are thick enough to "choke a horse" as the saying goes handguns is out for me, which is fine cause i enjoy rifles more anyway. I remember bring just a little boy with my lever action BB gun laying down on my front lawn shooting the stems of the christmas lights (the part where the light bulb screws in to, with out hitting the bulb itself lol ) off the top of the line and working my way down, boy that used to get me in so much trouble lmao but what else was a boy in the country to do? ; )
so here it is 18+ years later and i have very limited shooting experience but i really want to get in to it, i think there are a few gun clubs around here, i gotta find them over the next days.
Anyways im getting a bit off track, so many questions so heres a bunch and im sure ill come up with more as we speak
Rate of twist, i see a lot of different numbers out there, and for target shooting, which i do plan on doing competitively if i can find a community for it here or with in a reasonable drive. so what should i be looking for? i understand the basics that the rate of twist is the speed the bullet spins, either right or left, other than that i dont know much, faster rate of twist means more accurate?
Barrel length, again seeing a lot of numbers and shapes and sizes, i love the look of the Savage arms Mark-II(FV) just wish it was stainless like Mark-II (FSS) i see a lot of places sell a heavy target barrel, what does that do?
.22 LR or .22WMR which is the standard for competition?
and im sure this last question is going to cause a lot of problems as everyone has their own opinion, but what would be a good rifle to look in to? I understand that a lot of people have high end rifles, so lets look at the cheaper ones, or maybe Manufacturer. Ruger, Savage, CZ there are so many brands of rifles, i would love something cheap that i can build on over time.
oh and one last thing, what kind of action is the standard in target shooting? Bolt action i assume?
well thanks for any help, and looking forward to entering this wonderful sport.
Chris.
let me start off by saying i dont even know where i would go locally to find any kind of community for this kind of thing. I can tell you i have always loved shooting rifles, and since here in Canada the restrictions on hand guns are thick enough to "choke a horse" as the saying goes
handguns is out for me, which is fine cause i enjoy rifles more anyway. I remember bring just a little boy with my lever action BB gun laying down on my front lawn shooting the stems of the christmas lights (the part where the light bulb screws in to, with out hitting the bulb itself lol ) off the top of the line and working my way down, boy that used to get me in so much trouble lmao but what else was a boy in the country to do? ; )so here it is 18+ years later and i have very limited shooting experience but i really want to get in to it, i think there are a few gun clubs around here, i gotta find them over the next days.
Anyways im getting a bit off track, so many questions
so heres a bunch and im sure ill come up with more as we speak Rate of twist, i see a lot of different numbers out there, and for target shooting, which i do plan on doing competitively if i can find a community for it here or with in a reasonable drive. so what should i be looking for? i understand the basics that the rate of twist is the speed the bullet spins, either right or left, other than that i dont know much, faster rate of twist means more accurate?
Barrel length, again seeing a lot of numbers and shapes and sizes, i love the look of the Savage arms Mark-II(FV) just wish it was stainless like Mark-II (FSS) i see a lot of places sell a heavy target barrel, what does that do?
.22 LR or .22WMR which is the standard for competition?
and im sure this last question is going to cause a lot of problems as everyone has their own opinion, but what would be a good rifle to look in to? I understand that a lot of people have high end rifles, so lets look at the cheaper ones, or maybe Manufacturer. Ruger, Savage, CZ there are so many brands of rifles, i would love something cheap that i can build on over time.
oh and one last thing, what kind of action is the standard in target shooting? Bolt action i assume?
well thanks for any help, and looking forward to entering this wonderful sport.
Chris.