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                                            F/Class a brief history lesson

The sport was started in Canada, by the late George “Farky” Farquharson, after whom the sport is named. This sport involves using highly accurate single-shot centre fire rifles, high powered scopes and a means of steadying the rifle such as a bipod or pedestal rest. Participants shoot at paper bull’s eye targets at long distance, where the ability to read wind and other conditions determines their success.

The sport was developed to address the fact that many shooters were finding that in there advancing age and diminishing eye sight and there arms not being able to hold there rifle as still as they did in there early years of shooting, thus the sport of F-Class was born. 

F-Class is a precision long distance target shooting sport, using a rifle with a scope mounted on it in which competitors shoot at targets between 300 and 1000 yards, with the object of shooting a small group of shots as close to the center of the target as possible.

In Australia we have two main types of F/Class shooting, they are called standard and open and they are governed by the National Rifle Association Australia. All F/Class shooting is conducted on rifle ranges found around Australia and are controlled by each state association. You will find on any given Saturday groups of shooters enjoying the friendly competition of F/Class shooting. There are a few other styles of F/Class shooting in Australia one is long distance F/Class and is shot at 1000 yards out to 1200 yards and a discipline called Match Rifle were competitors shoot of there elbows with scoped rifles shot at the same distance as the long range F/Class shooters.    

                                                                    Shooting F/Class in Victoria

The sport of F/Class Target Rifle is run in Victoria by the Victorian Rifle Association, the rules are controlled by the National Rifle Association Australia and they are commonly called the SSRs which is short for Standard Shooting Rules. There are two main styles of shooting within the sport and they are F/Class Standard and F/Class Open, the main difference is F/Class Open can shoot any calibre up to 8mm and F/Class Standard have a choice of 155gn projectile in .308 or a 80gn projectile in .223 are the perfered calibres. There are a range of different rest that the competitor may use to hold the forend of the rifle, There is a pedestal Rest which has three resting points on a flat base and has elevation and windage controls, or there is a bipod which attaches to the forend of the rifle and has two legs that extend to the side of the rifle, these rest have elevation adjustments but not windage adjustments . The shooter may us a rear sand bag to rest the butt of the rifle on to give him a more stable platform to shoot from, There are more in depth rules that are associated with each of the two disciplines but this will give you a brief understanding of the sport. We also have a lot of Bench Rest shooters that like the challenge of shooting the longer distances that we shoot which is from 300yds to 1000yds. And the Match Rifle shooters all ways make room for F/Class shooters at there matchs we are shot from 1000 yards to 1200 yards. 
Under the ICFRA rules some clubs in Victoria are shooting F/TR which is a different style of shooting F/Class, and can be shot with a standard hunting rifle in .308 or .223 calibre with a harris bipod. Which makes it an easy and cost affective way of getting into the sport of target shooting, for more information on shooting F/TR read the page under F/Class articles. 
 


                                                                 Mission Statement

This web site is run to inform all Victorian shooters of the sport of F/Class target shooting and to inform all F/Class Shooters Association Members of up and coming events and keep them up to date with news and changes as the sport of F/Class shooting  grows in popularity in Victoria.