This year Sabatti, together with Fiocchi which supplies its excellent shooting ammunition of the Exacta series, covers many areas of Italy with weekends dedicated to shooting: on the 6th and 7th of July the Pian Neirèt plant was on stage. , in Val Sangone, not far from Turin. Here the family of Marco Cenni has been operating for some time with an exemplary passion and dedication by having lines at the classic distances in meters, therefore 100, 200 and 300, but to which are added many other lines for distances in yards, which start from 400 to arrive. at 800: over 300 m by custom and in homage to the Anglo-Saxon language past, the measurements go with this amount (1 yard is considered equal to 0,914 m). The facility located at an altitude of about 1.300 m asl is accessible, for obvious reasons of winter snow, from early May to late October and, except for low clouds, the clarity of the air, an indispensable factor for the exercise of the shot. it is almost always guaranteed.
Assistance is assured at all times, including that of the restaurant so it is easy and pleasant to spend the whole day here: in addition to the usual menu that varies from day to day, you can have grills of which you will keep a grateful memory upon reservation: we ensure with perfect knowledge of the facts by ideally conferring to the Cenni a certificate of perfect master caterers.
Massimo Felicetta, area agent of the Sabbath, assisted by the kind lady, has prepared everything needed in time with a good number of rifles equipped with optics, marking the types according to the distances to beat. So let's see the models that we would define as less demanding and sophisticated for the 100 and 200 lines but which are followed by the new Mod. ST18 shotgun flanked by the Mod. STR Sport for those who want to try their hand at 300 m. The new Tactical carbine and the TLD Red are reserved for 600 yds, a measure that already requires a certain mental predisposition to embrace the teachings of the instructors.
The non-competitive performances also took place at night, in the evening between Saturday and Sunday: at first unthinkable the turnout with over one hundred people who alternated on the lines side by side for the appropriate instructions from the BCM Shooting Team of Roletto (TO) . A special and heartfelt commendation to all these talented shooters, including Mattia Molina, who recently achieved a prestigious 2nd place, behind the host, in a competition held in France with a formula for which the best have come to hit. the target placed at 2 miles, that is to say 3.270 meters. Let's go back to the things of the house underlining how two other factors are pleasantly noticed: a massive presence of kind ladies, among other things very good in learning and putting into practice the basic notions of shooting, and the higher frequency on the lines at 600 yds. That's right: the ladies, as often happens, in practicing activities until yesterday "as men" prove to be superior for attention and execution of the athletic and sporting gesture.
At the end of the two days Massimo Felicetta and the kind lady were visibly tried, but the satisfaction far exceeded any form of fatigue.
Until a few decades ago it seemed almost impossible to revive the shooting at 300 m in Italy, we mean the one regulated by the UIT, and in the TSN environments, especially in the UITS competitive branch there were those who even predicted a not long life to that at 50 m with the .22 LR caliber, exalting shooting at 10 m with compressed air: arid minds drew up economic calculations forgetting that, in fun, passion enters with preponderant specific weight. Making a group of shots close to each other at such great distances is part of those activities where inner satisfaction is rewarded over every other factor.