Southampton Buccaneers Field Target Club

Here are some useful links.  The list of retailers is not exhaustive so you should shop around as you may find what you're after is on offer somewhere else.  As always, never buy a rifle or scope before taking advice from the club to make sure it'll do exactly what you want it to and ideally not until you've seen one in the flesh.  The fit and balance of a rifle is quite personal and you should always try before you buy.  SBFTC does not recommend these retailers over any other.  The VCR bill introduced on October 1st 2008 prohibits the sale of air rifles, air pistols and some accessories by mail order unless they are delivered to a registered fire arms dealer which now limits your choice of supplier unless you are prepared to travel and conduct the purchase in the shop.  The respective web sites should indicate which items are prohibited.

A word of caution when viewing the Airgun Forum and BBS sites.  They both contain lot's of really helpful, useful and interesting information, but they also contain some misinformed, incorrect, and potentially dangerous threads as well.  The moderators do a good job, but they're only human and dodgy posts may be up for a while before they're removed.  If you're tempted to do a modification you've read about on a forum, always take advice at the club first.

Retailers

AirAmmo UK importer and online retailer of JSB Pellets.

Blackpool Air Rifles Online retailer.

Chichester Armoury Located in Chichester, unsurprisingly.

CH Westons Located in Brighton.

Greenfields Mainly shotguns, but some air rifles.  Good selection of clothing. Located in Salisbury.

Opticswarehouse Online retailer of optical equipment including scopes, located in Devon.  A bigger range of quality optics than most retailers at good prices.  They also stock rifles and other accessories.

Portsmouth Gun Centre

TAL Arms Located in Christchurch.

Target Sports Online retailer.

Town & Country Sports Ltd. Local shop (Botley) with close ties to the club and a good range of quality equipment for sale.

Uttings.com Online retailer.

Yo-Yo Divers Where Robert gets his diver's tank filled.

Manufacturers

Air Arms rifles.

Anschutz rifles.

Bushnell scopes.

Combro chronographs that everyone should own.

Daystate rifles.

Feinwerkbau rifles.

JSB pellets.

Leupold scopes.

Nightforce scopes.

Nikko Stirling scopes.

Nockover targets - the original and best targets for FT and HFT.  Nothing else comes close, we've tried others but these are the best by far.  Reliable, with no sticking, they fall over if you hit them, stay up if you don't time after time and will take years of abuse.  Although there are some slightly cheaper targets about, you'll spend a lot of time arguing if it's not a Nockover.  These are the only targets we recommend for competition.

Skan chronographs and rifles.

Steyr rifles.

Walther rifles.

Weihrauch rifles.

Whiscombe rifles - probably the finest spring rifles in the world.

Clubs, associations and other useful links

AirGunForum Bulletin Board Official forum of the BFTA.

Airgun BBS Online forum.

BARPC Basingstoke Air Rifle and Pistol Club.

BASC British Association for Shooting and Conservation.

Bell targets  A history of what is probably the first competitive air rifle shooting.

Bisley Field Target Organisation Probably the world's most famous FT club.

British Field Target Association (BFTA) The UK governing body for FT.

Christchurch Gun Club Located near Bournemouth.

CSFTA Central Southern Field Target Association - governing our area of the UK.

ETL FTC Located in Essex.

Far Coley FTC Air rifle club based in Little Haywood, Staffs, born out of the Rough Wedge. Probably the best FT website around with lots of info, and the FT Review newsletter is a must read each month.

Fareham RPC One of the countries top 10m rifle clubs.  They also shoot rimfire and black powder.

Ford Ranges Near Yapton in Sussex.

JBM Trajectory calculator Works out your pellet drop and more.  Use a Ballistic Coefficient (BC) of 0.021 for JSB 4.52 (.177) and 0.033 for 5.52 (0.22).  Incredibly accurate!

MVAC Meon Valley Air rifle Club near Petersfield.

National Rifle Association

National Small-bore Rifle Association

New Zealand Airgunners Forum

North East Field Target Association (NEFTA) A very active BFTA region with some excellent technical documents in their resource section.  Highly recommended despite the fact they're Northeners!

North Oxon FTC Located north of Bicester.

Polish Field Target Association Hosts of the 2006 World Field Target Federation championship.

Rough Wedge Air rifle club based in Cannock, Staffs is no more, and has spawned Far Coley FTC in Little Haywood (see above for a link to the new site).

The Met Office Find out how wet you're going to get on Sunday.

Throw Paper! A web based game that will help you shoot in windy conditions!

UKAHFT The UK governing body for HFT.

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If you would like a link to your site to be posted here, or if there are dead or incorrect links, let the webmaster know.  We receive quite a few requests to link to other sites but they are not always appropriate.  We will always link to other air rifle clubs and associations but not often to retailers.  Please do not be offended if we choose not to link, but we receive 2 or 3 requests per month from retailers of general outdoors type equipment who stock only one or two types of rifle which are often spring rifles of Chinese manufacture.  They are fine for low cost plinking but we couldn't recommend them for use at the club so we don't link to the site.  The requirement is that you carry stock of equipment that is suitable for use in competition, that it is also your main product range and that you have staff that can offer impartial expertise. 

Send mail to Duncan at webmaster@sbftc.co.uk with questions or comments about this web site.
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