Shooting Australia launches its 2021 Come and Try campaign

Shooting Australia has launched its 2021 Come and Try campaign with more than 70 Pistol, Rifle and Clay Target Clubs across Australia offering fully supervised Target Shooting experiences for beginners and newcomers in a safe and controlled setting throughout the month of May.

The Come and Try campaign represents an ideal opportunity for interested individuals and groups to experience the many forms of Shooting which are available within each Shooting discipline.

Shooting Australia Chief Executive, Luke van Kempen, advised Come and Try offers an exciting introduction to Target Shooting and notes “all Come and Try attendees will be supervised and coached by experienced Club members where all equipment is supplied by participating clubs.

“It is a great way to experience what Target Shooting is all about, understand how inclusive the sport is, and how welcoming clubs are to newcomers.

“Target Shooting provides athlete pathways which go all the way to World Championship, Olympic and Paralympic Games levels.

“It is also a forever sport. Age is not a barrier and people continue competing for life.”

Van Kempen also said the sport holds particularly strong family and community ties adding “just look at our Australian Olympic Shooting team which heads to Tokyo in July. Pistol athlete Sergei Evglevski and his mother Lalita Yauhleuskaya were team-mates on the Australian team at the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games, while National Pistol coach Vladimir Galiabovitch coaches his daughter Elena in the Olympic team.

“Olympic Rifle athlete Jack Rossiter and his sister Tori are Australian team representatives, while Pistol athlete Dan Repacholi will be attending a remarkable fifth Olympics in Tokyo.”

Olympian Elena Galiabovitch encouraged newcomers to participate in Come and Try.

“Come and try shooting! I love sharing what I do and having people take interest in our great sport and coming to have a go,” said Galiabovitch.

“All you need is interest, common sense, and the ability to listen to your instructors and to have fun while staying range safe.”

For a list of participating clubs, go to comeandtrymay.com   

Image: Olympian Elena Galiabovitch at SISC