We currently have three ranges to shoot at, The Walled Garden, East Oakley Village Hall (often referred to by members as EOVH) and Popham Woods.
Each range has a unique element to offer.
The Walled Garden is our oldest and longest serving range, and is often the first range our new members will experience as it is where our Club Inductions are done. Popham Woods is an outdoor old English woods, which is home to our outdoor Target shooters, involved in shooting many of the out door disciplines available such as Hunter Field Target (HFT), Field Target (FT), Sporter Field Target (SFT) or even to members wishing to simply plink in the lovely open woods. Our Indoor pistol and rifle shooters call East Oakley Village Hall (EOVH) their home.
Easy access to all of these 3 ranges allows all BARPC members to access and explore many different Air Rifle and Pistol interests with all three being available to all fully paid up club members within the one annual subscription.
The club encourages all members to explore the offerings of each range and to expand their shooting skill set. Details of all the different disciplines are available on each of the ranges details pages, accessed from the menu to the left.
Directions to all 3 ranges are available on the clubs Find Us web page.
Visitors and Guests to BARPC Ranges
Club members can invite Visitor/Guests to ALL BARPC ranges in compliance with the following
- EOVH and WG will both be limited to 1 visitor per session
- Popham will be limited to a max of 10 visitors per session (excluding organised event shoots)
- The green fees at all three ranges will be 5GBP a visitor per visit payable in on the day before shooting commences
- Full / Retired Club Members can invite guests up to 4 times a year
- This invite MUST be cleared prior to the visit with the relevant range controlling officer
- The inviting club member MUST AT ALL TIMES BE responsible for their visitor
- At EOVH and WG the inviting member must give up their firing line access to their visitor. At Popham the visitor can shoot alongside the inviting club member.
- The Visitor MUST sign the range logbook prior to shooting, their name and their address MUST CLEARLY and LEGIBLY be written.
- Prior to any shooting, the visitor MUST have undergone a short safety briefing and introduction to the range via the range controlling officer or the range RO or a Committee member.
Range Controlling officer - This will be for Popham the Outdoor Secretary, for EOVH the Indoor Secretary and for the Walled Garden Officer the Walled Garden Officer. In addition to letting the inviting club member know the request has been approved, they will have informed the range RO of that day the details of visitors (ie Members name and Guest Name)
For Popham, Subject to the prior approval of the Outdoor secretary, the Visitor(s) can also be
- A current member of a CSFTA region club who can then shoot abiding to BARPC club rules without being accompanied by a BARPC club member
- By producing documentation confirming they are a member of an insured and recognised UK air gun club, the visitor can then shoot abiding to BARPC club rules while being accompanied by a BARPC club member.
The committee reserve absolute right to decline admittance or acceptance of the Guest / Visitor request as deemed necessary.