Omark sniper rifle

[Son]

"Buy a real rifle". Well, it would be great if it were that easy, but given the scarcity of genuine No4(T)'s and No 32 scopes and L96's et al its not that achievable is it?. Also given the astronomical sums these rifles are now fetching most proud owners only get them out of the safe to drool over and fondle them!. An old Omark however can be had for as little as $150AU and with a little time and thought be presented as a REPLICA trials rifle and used for its intended purpose, SHOOTING. The SSAA has it inclusivity policy right in my opinion because if you allow more types of rifle into a class then you might actually get a shoot off the ground, because there will actually be more people able to shoot in it.
There is an NRA club here in the west that will remain nameless for the fear of having a fatwa imposed that will only allow shooters to use a No1 mkIII* and nothing else and its numbers are dropping rapidly, if you put up barriers for people, don't be surprised if they turn around and walk away. You can keep your purism for the non-shooting collectors who own all the (T)'s anyway, there are some who think the best way of keeping our sport of service rifle alive and well is to keep it accessable. Just my opinion! Fire away.

I'm not arguing toward exclusivity, but when the rules are either vague enough or allowed to be bent enough to permit a rifle with a glass bedded Madco barrel and fitted with a match trigger (the brand escapes me ATM) in sportered woodwork toting a leupold variable scope with a 40 something mm objective lens, three point sling etc into F1 (vintage sniper) class because he wound the scope down to 4x and put a bandaid over it so it couldn't move.
Why would anyone bother bringing a five six or seven thousand dollar artifact... a real sniper rifle, to a competition designed for it, that he has no chance of winning.

I get talked about because I like to shoot these rifles... why are the rules trying to make me use something else to be competitive. I only shoot for fun now... It's my experience that while ever the rules are a little flexible, there will be someone out to take advantage of it. I mentioned before, a match scrutineer should have the power to rule an entry "not in the spirit of the competition".. there was another class he could have shot, Match rifle (or modified accurised) scoped... all it has to be is a military calibre. The class was set up to be inclusive.... look at the classes for AIHPA... they got it right!

BTW, there were 6 No4T's at Penrith a fortnight ago... and I still don't own one...