The Charles Lancaster Experience at The GWCT Welsh Game Fair will give you the opportunity to shoot a large calibre .375 H&H rifle in the historic Vaynol Tunnels.
After consultation with North Wales Police, organisers of The GWCT Welsh Game Fair and Charles Lancaster gunmakers have been granted permission for visitors with a valid firearms certificate to shoot large calibre rifles in the historic Vaynol Tunnels during the three-day event which takes place 9-11 September at the Vaynol Hall near Bangor.
This unique opportunity, dubbed ‘The Charles Lancaster Experience’, will take around one hour at the indoor rifle range inside the disused railways tunnels, under supervision of qualified range officers from Bangor & District Rifle Club and Charles Lancaster Gunmakers. Isuzu are supplying a fleet of trucks to chauffeur participants on the ten minute journey between The GWCT Welsh Game Fair and the rifle range so you don’t need to worry about the logistics of getting there and back.
This experience costs £38 and will see you take four shots with a .375 H&H bolt action rifle with open sights at a buffalo target placed 75 yards away. The first two shots will check your zero and the second two will both have to be fired within 12 seconds helping to simulate real-world shooting conditions.
Shots will be assessed by range officers, with the overall ‘best shot’ presented with a brand new, handmade Charles Lancaster hunting knife worth £350.
Event director James Gower said: “The Vaynol tunnels provide a unique opportunity not available anywhere else in an event environment for the practical have-go-experience of firearms. This is great news for the industry and gives The GWCT Welsh Game Fair its unique identity. This is an area we will expand over the coming years.”
