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2023 Cape Town Hunting Rifle Shooting Association Open

For those unfamiliar with the South African Hunting Rifle Shooting Association (SAHRSA), the sport originated in the 1990s as a simulated hunting sport. All competitions are held in open fields on private farmland or registered ranges with capacity to shoot in field-shooting conditions of a marked range, to afford competitors a simulated hunting environment as close as possible to the real thing. The only difference is that you are shooting at life-size paper targets of deer, vermin and 200 mm diameter steel gongs and not at live deer.

During the early days of hunting rifle competitions, all sorts of hunting rifles and calibres were used but, like everything in life, as the competitiveness grew the equipment became more refined. The calibres mostly

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