The “Kelowna Practical Shooters” are the IPSC section of the Kelowna Fish & Game Club. IPSC stands for International Practical Shooting Confederation. For more information visit www.ipsc.org . This is a fast paced handgun action shooting sport. It is practice in over 65 countries around the world.

All members must take a mandatory “black badge” course. This course teaches you handgun safety and the fundamentals of the sport.

Men and women compete against each other in various classes. There are also 3 classes of handgun. Production (out of the box), Standard (some modifications), and Open (anything goes!).

Our scheduled practice is on Thursday evenings, lower IPSC bays. Come out and have a look.

Come see what its about, bring your own eye and ear protection.

For more information contact Nick or Marcy @ 768-4092 or kingauto@uniserve.com .

This is the largest growing shooting sport in North America. The Ladies and Juniors enjoy it as much as the men.

You dress up and use either reproduction or original firearms circa 1865-1910. You shoot under an alias, either fictional or non-fictional.

It involves three guns, handgun, rifle and shotgun. Some like to shoot blackpowder. For more info check out www.sassnet.com and www.wcfss.com

For more information contact Marcy at 768-4092 evenings.

Is providing a venue for the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) pistol events: 50 m Pistol (Free Pistol); 25 m Rapid Fire Pistol; 25 m Center Fire Pistol; 25 m Standard Pistol; 25 m Pistol (Sport Pistol); and 10 m Air Pistol. KPC also engages in NRA Conventional Pistol in all calibres.


We shoot indoors at 20 yards in the basement range of the clubhouse on Monday evenings during the winter months. During warmer weather, we shoot outdoors on our 50-metre range - which features covered firing points.

The club is in the process of rebuilding. We welcome new members interested in "bulls eye-style" target shooting under the ISSF and NRA rules. Coaching is available, so don't be reluctant to join us even though you may not have tried this style of shooting before.

For more information contact Claudio at 862-9167.

                

Our Club is located in the heart of the Okanagan Valley on Okanagan Lake which is a large tourist and fruit producing area 250 miles east of Vancouver and about 200 miles northwest of Spokane.

We have 6 traps at present and 1 Skeet Field. Our shooting hours are from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturdays and we also have practices year-round on Wednesdays from 1 p.m. to dusk.

We have a number of registered shoots per year and during the fall and winter and try to have at least 1 turkey shoot a month. We have a very friendly club, which is comprised of about 90 members, a number of which are excellent shooters and a lot of new members just learning so it is a very friendly club and we welcome any and all visitors.

The contact persons in our club for Trap are Les Madsen at 250-764-7201 and lesmadsen@shaw.ca or Gary Pomfrey 250-767-6577 and pomfrey@telus.net. For Skeet, contact Bob LaRue at 250-861-4044 and bob-larue@shaw.ca.

This division of the Kelowna and District Fish and Game Club offers shooting classes for both juniors (10 years and up) and adults, using 22-cal. rifles. Emphasis is on gun safety and marksmanship in a program geared mainly toward juniors.

You must be a fish and game club member to participate, then pay a fee of $7 per session. This covers supplies like ammunition and firearms, and safety gear like shooting glasses and earmuffs. There are certified range safety officers present during each session, offering instruction in three shooting positions: competition-style standing, kneeling and prone.

The .22-cal. rifle instruction program is held every second Tuesday night, usually at the indoor range, with junior archery alternating between rifle nights. The program starts Sept.18 and goes to mid-June. Novice shooter sessions run 6:30-7:30 p.m. and the more experienced juniors and adults are on the range 7:30-8:30 p.m.

During Daylight Savings time, the club offers trap shooting lessons the first Wednesday of the month. Fee for this is $12 per round (25 clay targets). Shotguns and one-on-one instruction provided.

We also have a silhouette range which is used by club members, only under the supervision of a range officer. This facility is for .22 rifle shooting only, with metal animal silhouettes engaged at distances of 40 metres to 100 metres.

There is a fall pumpkin-jug shoot fundraiser Oct. 21 at which anyone can come and shoot; club membership not required. At this event, guests and members can shoot semi-automatic rifles in .223 and other calibres at milk jugs filled with water, always under one-on-one supervision of a range officer.

They can also shoot handguns in .22, .357, and .44-magnum calibres. There is also an opportunity to try archery, shotguns and firing mini black powder cannon.

All proceeds from this and a spring shoot go to the junior programs.

Information ,contact the club office at 250-764-7558.

Archery Can Be Shot Year Round
The archery program is coordinated by Barry Marciski and Cal Maier, for more information, please call Barry at 250-868-1440.

The Junior Archery Program
The Junior Archery program accepts kids between the ages 10 and 17 years of age. Junior Archers will shoot every 2nd Tuesday. The Juniors 10 to 12 years old start shooting at 6:30pm to 7:30pm and the kids 13 to 17 start shooting at 7:30pm to 8:30 pm.

We can comfortably accommodate approximately 16 students in each group and conduct group and individual instructions. We also have a couple in-house tournaments for the juniors with great success.

The Adult Archery Program
We not only find the kids interested in Archery, lots of adults also expressing interest as well. adult Archery will start at 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm and run every other Friday there after.

For more information, please call Barry at 250-868-1440.

Silhouette shooting is a great way to get a lot of bang for your buck.
A division of Kelowna and District Fish and Game, the Silhouette Club has been formed to advance the sport of metallic silhouette target shooting. Using .22-cal. long rifle firearms, participants shoot at banks of pigs, turkeys, chickens and rams set up on stands at specific distances. Chicken cutouts, the smallest targets (two inches by two inches), are shot at 40 metres.

Next targets are pigs that are three by four inches, at 60 metres. The turkeys, considered the hardest to hit, at four inches tall by three inches, are shot at 77 metres. Rams, five inches by six inches, are arranged at 100 metres. Participants aim at 40 targets in a round, 10 at each distance.

Shooting takes place Saturday in the UIT/silhouette range after 1 p.m. when skeet shooting is done. Shooters will typically go through a couple of hundred .22 long rifle rounds during a Saturday session.

Because this is a hunter's sport, and the club is just getting going, it shuts down during hunting season and starts again in January. When daylight allows, silhouette shoots Tuesday evenings starting in mid-May and participants can count on using 100 rounds.

The club supplies the targets, the bullet traps around the target stands and the facility. All shooters must join the discipline and supply their own scoped rifle (hunting or target) and ammunition. There is a $2 per day shooting charge. The range is open only to silhouette shooters (who must be fish and game cub members) on the Tuesday and Saturday.

Range safety is a priority. All Silhouette Club members must take a range officer course from the club leaders.

Silhouette in competition is shot free-standing, but using a rest is a good idea for younger shooters to keep up their interest in the sport. The club hopes to have a fun shoot or two during the year.

To learn about knocking down the little metal critters, contact the club office at 250-764-7558.