It's time to come in from the cold.

It's that time of year again when outdoor shooting becomes less a pleasure and more a test of dedication and endurance.

To remedy that, we're having a short indoor rifle series to keep both bodies and competitive spirits warm.

It's free to enter, open to all and easy to take part in.  There's hardly any rules and the few we have are straightforward and simple - check them out at the top of the left sidebar.

And they're off!

Our Winter series got off to a flyer with no less than eight shooters taking part and providing an interesting spread of scores

First to volunteer was Erni who left his outdoor comfort zone (for, ironically, somewhere more comfortable) to rattle in a rather good 41.

Bri turned up at this point and went into Pressgang Mode.  With just the gentlest of arm-twisting, Bill, Dave, John and Mike were persuaded that having a go would be in their best interests.

Bill and Dave shared an FX DRS and racked up 33 and 42 respectively while John, one of our older and more "casual" shooters, got 14 with his HW100.

Mike, a very reluctant and competition-shy entrant was next.  Although new to this sort of thing, he took to it like a duck to water by getting some good quality excuses in early - foremost of which was "It's a brand new gun (HW100) and I haven't got it properly zero'd yet."

Thing is, he then shot a solid mid-field 36 with examination of his card showing consistently placed holes slightly to the right of the bulls backing up his zeroing assertion.

Once he gets that scope set he'll be a contender.

Bri broke out the seldom seen AA400 for 34 and joined Bill and Mike in the middle of things while Craig took a relaxed, unhurried and unworried approach with 18.

Jim casually sauntered in at this point and put his Daystate to good use - a 42 puts him joint top with Dave and makes things interesting.

The usual suspects have already put their names down and there's room for plenty more.  Our friendly comps are a great way of socialising, getting more involved and becoming a better shot so give at least one round a try and see how you get on.

You never know - you might like it!