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Canadian-made Ross El0 straight pull rifles, custom<br />
rebuilt at Tula for match use in 7.62 Russ caliber,<br />
are used for rapid com~etition on running deer range.<br />
Caucasian goat with record sweep of horns was downed by hunter shooting Rifles used by club shooters are<br />
Model 94 -30-30. Soviets like Savdae M99 rifles in -303 and -22 Hi-Power. chieflv Hammerli free rifles, Menteriactioied<br />
free rifles (usually with Finish<br />
Sako match barrels), straight-pull<br />
Mannlichers, Czech Bmo smallbores<br />
and the Russian-made Tula weapons in<br />
.22 and 7.62 mm calibres. Pistols are<br />
usually Hammerli-Walthers, with a<br />
sprinkling of "foreign" handguns,<br />
greatly modified to free them from the<br />
ills of age (butchered l%h century<br />
Colts are not unknown), and a number<br />
of Margolin conventional and unusual<br />
designs, of which the "upside down''<br />
pistols used at last year's Olympic<br />
matches were an example. These incidentally,<br />
have been banned from<br />
future Olympics and may never be seen<br />
again. Shotguns used by trap shooters<br />
are almost exclusively Belgian-made<br />
F'abrique Nationales in 12 and 16<br />
gauges, the latter being most popular<br />
for field shooting.<br />
Shooting clubs purchase hunting<br />
rights to tracts of farm and forest land<br />
on which only members may hunt.<br />
The bigger the club, the bigger the<br />
area of land it is capable of reserving.<br />
No private individual, even if he did<br />
manage to obtain a weapon, could<br />
legally go hunting behind the Iron<br />
Curtain. And hunters seldom get to<br />
hunt alone, or even just in tios or<br />
threes. Hunts are always organized by<br />
the club, and parties usually consist of<br />
at least a dozen and often as many as<br />
fifty shooters.<br />
There are no individual bag limits,<br />
4 either, as there are here. When a club<br />
obtains shooting rights to an area,<br />
I permission is granted to shoot a given<br />
'<br />
number of bears, deer, hares, or whatever<br />
game is offered. For example, a<br />
club may have a permit to shoot seven<br />
deer on a hunting area for which it<br />
has obtained shooting rights. If most<br />
members are keen to bag a deer, the<br />
club may organize seven different<br />
shoots, on different dates, with hunters<br />
in each (Continwd on page 43)
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