Pickering Brook Rifle Range
The ABRC invites all people to get involved and become members. Any person that can meet the prerequisites of obtaining a Western Australian firearms license are encourage to join our club. Juniors are also encourage to join our club.
HOW TO OBTAIN A WA FIREARMS LICENSE.
You will need to become a financial member of the Armadale Byford Rifle Club and once financial, you will need to complete a four week probation period. Then following the probation period, you will need to attend eight shoots days to qualify to be able to apply for a firearm support from the club. Once you put your application for support to the committie will need to approve the firearms support letter. If you are approved by the committie and your support letter is granted to you, your next step is to make application for a firearms license to the Western Australian Police here. Your club support letter is your genuine need support letter that must be attached to your application. It is also recommended that you submit a business style letter to support yourself explaning why you should be granted a firearms license.
You are required to submit your application and documents to an Australia Post outlet, and if your application is an original, your application is subject to a 28 day cooling off period which means in laymans terms, your application will sit in limbo at the Police Licensing Centre until the 28 day period expires. Once that has expired, your application then will be reviewed and processed which could take up to three months for approval (usually up to four weeks).
If you are relocating from the eastern states, your FAL from which ever state you are coming from is not recongnised in WA and you will be required to apply for a three month permit while you apply for a WAFAL or if it be longer than three months, you will be required to place your firearms at a dealer for storage. If you are relocating from overseas, you will need to make contact with the Department of Immigration and Border Protection and you can do that by clicking here.
In the interim while your firearms license is being processed, the club has rifles that you can use without charge however ammunition is at a cost.
Annual club fees can change from time to time due to increase of WARA fess and other associated costs. Please discuss this with the club captian on the day at the range.
What you get for your fees:
When you join ABRC, you receive membership to the Western Australian Rifle Association and the National Rifle Association of Australia for the insurance componant. Your fees go towards in providing you with targets, scoring incidentals and general running of the club. ABRC have a overall year competition where you could win trophies at the end of the year for any particular division.
Shooting Calendar
Shooting takes place on every Saturday morning commencing at 0800hrs with the sign on book closing at 0930hrs which means you will not be able shoot after 0930hrs.. It is advisable that you arrive at the club no later than 0730hrs to receive the days brief. A white board is provided to place your name into a detail and if you intend to shoot more than one division, you cannot enter a second detail until 0830hrs which gives members time to go onto a detail. The club calendar can be accessed here to see what distance the day will be shooting. Our regular Saturday morning shoots are run on a format to appeal shooters from varied disciplines and levels of experience. No restrictions are placed on the type of rifle used only that it has to meet safety requirements which means it would have to be in a good serviceable working order and the rifle must not have muzzle breaks as these have been banned by the Western Australian Rifle Association due to the muzzle blast can affect the shooter next to you. It is quite common to see the .303 Lee Enfields from the WW1 and WW2 eras and really expensive F-Class rifles. You will also see WW1 and WW2 sniper rifles that participate in the Service Optical matches. There are some occasional service shoots in the afternoon straight after the mornings shoot.
Throughout the year, the club shoots a prone 10+3 shot match. You can shoot a five shot sighting series to sight in your rifle however if you cannot hit the target within those five shots, you will be asked to leave the mound. The 10+3 work you shoot ten scoring shots, the first three shots are basically considered as sighters and you have the option to shoot another three shots to better the first three shots, so essentially you will shoot thirteen shots with ten scoring. So for example, your first three shots you score a 3,3,2 (top score is 5 and 5 Vbull) so you can attempt to better those scores. At all shoots you will find a social and friendly atmosphere that promotes confidence in both new and old shooters alike.
Divisions Shot: 1: Service
2: Service Optical
3: Hunter Class
4: F-Class
Matches Shot: 1: Standard 10+3
2: Bench Rest shot at 500m only
3: Walk Down 300m 200m 100m
4: Aussie Pommie India
5: Rim Fire
6: Medal Days