Welcome at the Oyster Rifle Club!
The Oyster Rifle Club is a target shooting club, based in Kent in the UK.
The membership is currently (as of January 2025) UK full members: 64, Belgian members: 8 and Dutch members: 18.
For membership enquiries please contact us via email. You'll find the email address at the top of this page.
For people outside the UK, membership is by invitation only. A valid European firearms licence is required.
Hythe Ranges latest news
Due to staff shortages throughout the next few months and due to retirements and annual holidays for the staff that are left working we should expect a lot of cancellations. This will impact all civilian clubs and the military training.
It now seems that Hythe ranges will not be accommodating civilian clubs until the new year.
6.5 on Hythe Ranges
6.5 can be used on Hythe Serials 2 and 10, but only after HME test
Upcoming Range Days & Events
Becoming a member
For inquiries about membership of the Oyster Rifle Club, send an e-mail to the e-mail address at the top of the page.
Guests on MOD ranges
As of January 2025 guests are no longer allowed to handle firearms on MOD ranges. Only full members and probationary members are allowed to use firearms.
Guests however, are welcome on an MOD range to ‘get a taste of the Oyster Rifle Club and its members’ and get a closer look at long range shooting, albeit without handling a firearm.
If and when a shooter is serious about membership of the ORC he / she can become a probationary member. Probationary members are allowed to use firearms on MOD ranges.
A probationary member pays £30.00 in administration fees and probationary membership fees of £65.00. He / she will also need to supply four passport type photographs.
A probationary member must attend at least six shoots, two of which must be full bore shoots.
Once this is completed and the probationary member has been assessed as a safe shooter, plus, of course, a person that we would be happy to have as a member, he / she will be issued an NRA affiliated shooters card by the club chairman.
Once a probationary member becomes a full member, the remainder (£135.00) of the full membership fees will become payable.
Membership for shooters outide the UK
Membership for international shooters is by invitation only!
Membership Fees
Full UK membership fee for 2025 is £200.00 payable annually in March. This can be one payment of £200.00, or two payments of £100.00 in March and September.
Probationary (UK) members pay £30.00 administration fees and £65.00 for six attendances. At least two of these must be a full bore shoot, the remaining four can be at the indoor .22 range in Sittingbourne. The balance of £135.00 would be due on acceptance of membership.
International members fee for 2025 is £182,00, payable annually in March. This is including the £47,00 fee for the Visitor's Firearm Permit.
