Marple Rifle and Pistol Club
details
(how to join and costs)

The range building
How to join (and costs)
Shooting details
General Club details
To speak to a
Range Officer and make an appointment for a visit, call: 0161 427 9133
between 20:00
and 21:00 Monday to Thursday and you will be given directions to the Club.
We operate a
booking system and only take a maximum of 2 new visitors per day.
How to join
(and costs)
- For more
information than contained in these notes, please call 0161 427 9133
between the hours of 20:00 and 21:00, Monday to Thursday inclusive and speak
to one of the Range Officers. All arrangements for a
first visit must be made by telephone, you cannot make a date by email.
- Please be aware that all visitors
and applicants for membership must sign a declaration stating that they are
not prohibited by law from taking up shooting and holding a firearms
certificate. This requirement applies to everyone without exception,
irrespective of age and it
includes airgun shooters who may have no intention of ever applying for a
firearms certificate.
- Costs:
Full annual membership is currently £90, payable either in full from 1st
January, or in two equal payments of £45, on 1st January and 1st July. We
operate a sliding scale for the membership fee, such that you only pay for
the balance of the months of the year remaining when you join: for example
you would only pay £7-50 membership if you joined in December (plus the
joining fee).
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There is a £25
joining fee per person and this is paid no matter when during the year you
join.
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For family members living at the same address we have a special annual rate
whereby one person pays the full amount (normally £90) and all others only pay £10 each
(everyone pays the £25 joining fee).
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Range fees for members and probationary members are £2 per day. Visitors
fees are £5 per visit (maximum of three before having to decide whether to
join or not).
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We stock ammunition for .22
rimfire and airgun shooting only; as a guide 50 rounds of .22 will cost you
about £3-00 and 5 targets £0-70.
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Contact the club for further details of costs and times of opening or see:
Visit the
Club
- Membership of the club gives full
access to all types of shooting, both at the club's indoor range and
at
outdoor ranges that we visit. There is no part membership, even if
for example you only wish to shoot airgun on a
Thursday night. You do not have to take part in all the types of target
practice that we offer, but full membership does give you the right to
take part in all club activities on all
occasions that we are open.
- Please note that the minimum age
for full membership is 17. We do have a junior section,
admission to which is decided on a case-by-case basis; however the minimum
age for airgun shooting is 17 in all cases, see
Juniors page for full details.
- We especially welcome ladies to
come and try shooting, please do not think that our sport and this club is a
male only preserve, it is not!
Shooting details
- We are open as follows:
Monday
19:30 to 21:30 for .22 rifle
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Tuesday 19:30 to 21:30 for
.22 rifle
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Wednesday 19:30 to 21:30 for
all calibres of rifle and pistol
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Thursday 19:30 to 21:30 for
4.5 mm airgun (minimum age is 17)
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Friday 19:30 to 21:30 for all calibres of rifle and pistol
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Sunday 10:00 to 12:00 for
all calibres of rifle and pistol
For fuller details of shooting
activities, see the paragraphs below:
- Basic instruction at no charge is
given to all beginners to the sport in order to get them shooting safely.
The Club has training videos and books on target shooting for self-study and
in addition full training courses are held over a 5 week period for those
wishing to know more. These longer courses are usually held in January /
February each year.
- We shoot .22 cartridge
rifle from the prone, standing and kneeling positions over
25 yards on Monday and Tuesday between the hours of 19:30 to 21:30. This
discipline is intended for .22 rimfire single shot rifles only and all the
shooting that takes place is to NSRA rules. There are 10 positions for prone
rifle and of those, 8 can also be used for shooting in the standing and
kneeling positions.
- On Wednesday,
Friday and
Sunday we shoot all calibres between .22 rimfire and .455 fullbore
nitro powder guns (there is no upper calibre limit for Black Powder guns).
These two days are for all types of gun, from single shot .22
rimfire up to anything legal. By legal we mean guns which both comply
with current legislation and are within the scope of our range safety
certificate. We have a set of electrically operated
turning targets for use at these times and can practice courses of fire
similar to the old PP1 and Service Pistol competitions, but using carbines,
or Black Powder, or legal (long barrelled) fullbore pistols. There are 6
positions for fullbore and 8 positions for .22 rimfire,
all shot from a standing position. It is quite possible to shoot from the
prone and kneeling positions as well as standing, but the usual practice is
to shoot standing. Distances
available are, 25, 20, 15, 10 metres, 20 and 25 yards.
- We shoot airgun on Thursday between
19:30 and 21:30. This discipline is purely for
shooting to NSRA and ISSF standards using 4.5 mm calibre
guns. No .22 air rifles or pistols are allowed. It is purely a single shot target discipline. We have a 12 position
range which caters for both air pistol and air rifle simultaneously. It is
equipped with electrically operated target retrieval mechanisms at all 12
firing points.
Minimum age for taking part in airgun shooting is 17, see
Juniors page for more details
- The first Sunday of the month is
normally used for visits to outdoor ranges
normally at Altcar, near Southport,
Lancashire, or Sealand near Chester, Cheshire (this is in addition to
the normal Sunday shooting at the club
range). All calibres of gun can be used up to the
maximum that the military will allow, over distances from 100 to 1000 yards.
The army actually provide paper targets, but we usually take our own. For
full details and travel arrangements ask at the club range. Please note that
visits to the outdoor ranges are for members and probationary members only,
not visitors.
- Normally on
the second Sunday in May we hold a barbecue in the range
grounds and family and friends of
members are invited to attend. During this event we organise a 'fun shoot'
and have demonstrations of different types of shooting
especially for the benefit of guests who normally do not have the opportunity to handle guns.
General
Club details
- We are located in Marple,
about 5 miles to the south-east of Stockport
town centre in Cheshire, England.
- Marple is to the south-east of
Manchester (about 12 miles) and close to the Derbyshire border and is not
to be confused with
Marple near Philadelphia, in the state of Pennsylvania in the
USA. There is however a connection, in that one Francis Stanfield who
emigrated to America in 1683 had lived in Marple,
England and seemingly named his new home in the New
World after his old home in England.
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We do not publish full details of our location here,
you will need to obtain directions by telephoning us on 0161 427 9133.
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The range is a purpose built
facility that does not share with any other users and so we have complete
freedom to do as we wish. In practice, opening times are dictated only by
demand and if the demand were to be present we could be open 24 hours a day
7 days a week. We do not have any neighbour problems with access, noise or
parking.
- The whole range has recently been
redecorated to a high standard and is well heated in the social area /
toilets / kitchen and coaching rooms. The actual firing range itself is also
electrically heated, both for firearms and separately for airguns.
- For a small charge there are a
selection of beverages (tea, coffee, canned drinks) and biscuits available
in the kitchen for members use.
- The Club is wholly owned by the
members and the administration of it is carried out by officers and a
committee, who are elected annually at the AGM in January. The range is run
on a day to day basis by voluntary Range Officers. The
Club is not a commercial enterprise and is not run on a, 'for profit' basis,
all surplus left over after paying our bills is re-invested into the club.
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