Schuetzenklub Illawarra's Geoffrey Hunter takes the Illawarra Mercury on a tour of their Albion Park Rail range, and explains how they provide support for vision-impaired/blind shooters. Video by Josh Bartlett
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00:00 Geoffrey Hunter, I'm the club captain for Exite Vision Impaired Target Shooting and this is
00:07 the range, one of the ranges that we shoot at. This range is approved by New South Wales Firearms
00:16 Registry and is one of two ranges in New South Wales that are approved for vision impaired
00:20 shooting. The vision impaired shooters use rifles with specific high-speed cameras that replace the
00:30 conventional eyepiece of an optical sight. The high-speed camera picks up a infrared light
00:39 on the target, converts it to an audio signal so that the shooter through a set of headphones can
00:46 determine whether they're, how close they are to the bullseye. Once they're on the bullseye it
00:52 changes tone to a very low pitch and they can take their shot. The adjustments on the back of the
00:59 scope allow you to adjust the sight on the scope to within 0.1 of a millimetre at 10 metres,
01:10 so they are very, very accurate. The rifles have to be tuned to indoor target shooting
01:17 which is below 600 feet per second and all of these rifles have been so tuned.