Shooting at Finhaut (Valais, Switzerland)

[Shung]

Yesterday, my shooting society was invited by another, in Valais, to shoot at the Finhaut (which can be translated by End-high in english) Shooting range, located up high at approx 1500m on breath taking mountain side !

A really wonderfull site, which I will always remember (and I hope to go back there next year !)

My friend Ph and myself took 10 guns up there, and were able to shoot many more from friends.

I took an american selection of guns.. A M16A4 clone, a Mk12 clone, and a M4, plus my M1 Garand-

Ph had a more eccletic choice.. but WONDEFULL guns too.. A P14 (.303), a French Bertier rifle (8mm) , A spanish Mauser with a muzzlebreak, a Sniper customized K31, an Austrian FAL and finally a Russian Ak-74 (Itvesk)

There were lots of other guns to pick and try.. among them, USM1's, SVT-40, AKSU, Winchester 1894 in 30-30, a variety of Schmidt-Rubin's and SIG's etc etc..

Here are selection of pictures that ph took and that I thought cool to share !

The location





the 4 lanes 300m range with polytronic targets


Part of the guns we had brought up there


My Garand

Ph P14

My Mk12 "clone" and the 1st serie results


I was particulary impressed by the accuracy of my Mk12 clone (we got 7 bullseye in a row at 300m) which I certainly expected, but also by Ph P14 ... The sight is really interesting and I would never had thought it was so accurate !!!

Looking forward to our next shooting trip in our tall hills...!

 

[Boris Barowski]

If you ever want to invite a foreigner, this Belgian is available
my open-air range isn't nearly as fancy as this one (but it'll do)

What exactly is needed for a Mk12 clone ?

Are those SIUS-ASCOR electronic targets ?

 

[Shung]

Those are "polytronic" electronic targets.. I have NO IDEA of who is making them, but you find them all around Switzerland in military or communal shooting ranges.

My Mk12 clone is as close as possible to the original one.

 

[Larry Ashcraft]

Beautiful country! Looks a lot like Colorado.

 

[sm]

Shung,

Thank you for sharing!
Beautiful country indeed!
I like the "polytronic" electronic targets, those are neater than all get out!

 

[Shung]

I whish the Valais was as wild as Colorado... but it's not.

Looking forward to my next trip to Colorado though.. I hope one day i will never comme back here.

 

[Taurus_9mm]

I was going to say it looks a lot there like Colorado or Montana. Just beautiful and loved all the long guns.

 

[rbernie]

Thanks for sharing.