The (very) occasional big bang

Shooters of large calibre rifles have a hard time on St Helena. The price of ammunition and the difficulty of getting it onto the island means that they shoot only once per year. No practice, 18 shots over 3 distances. If that isn't bad enough, the range is in the open on an exposed spur. Oh and the target butts are downhill. Despite this, there are some very very good shots on St Helena. They practice with small bore .22 and air rifle and then just adapt. Here's a few shots (pun intended) from their recent event. We'll next see them sometime in 2012.