Magnum United Shooting Club

Magnum united is steeped in history, has ties with many founding fathers of the modern “combat shooting” movement in South Africa, and helped forge the path for the modern sporting shooter.

Magnum was founded in 1975, when 2 shooting clubs merged, Magnum Shooting Club and the United Shooting club came together after losing access to their range at the time. The shooting range was unnamed as it was initially a private shooting club.

In 1977, Adrian Rosslee was invited to join by Robin Fisher, and was then introduced to “combat shooting”.

The early members of the current club were big names in the shooting community at the time, namely:

Shortly after Adrian joined Magnum United Shooting Club, the following shooters also joined, and became some of the early hot shots in Combat Shooting;

Magnum United hosted provincial league shoots as well as national-level events. With time, members moved, life went on and the range became dormant. As is the way with these things, the range became derelict and vandalized. The remaining structures were broken down and shot, the range itself took to seed and became overgrown.

In the mid 1990’s, Adrian became more involved with firearms training, and needed a shooting range for training purposes. At this, he contacted Haynes Stead and it was mutually agreed that Adrian would take over the range, gentrify it and open it to the public. It was named Magnum United Shooting Range to honour those founding members, their contribution to the sport and the range’s prestigious history.

The existing ranges were reconfigured and with the help and generosity of many club members, the existing structures, roads and what you can see today were erected. With special thanks to :

During the 2020 pandemic and with the shutdown of the business, the range was once again vandalised and repeatedly broken into. Many people made anonymous donations and the friends and family of the Magnum United Shooting Range once again rallied, without the donors and the

The shooting range would not exist without the members of the Pretoria Defensive Shooting Club, Magnum United Shooting Club, trainers like Albert Wessels, Terrick Naude, Arno Barlow, and others that use the shooting range to present training. Our other supporters are shooting associations such as Big Bore Association Southern Africa and our corporate clients that use the facility.

We of course must not forget our long-time sponsors and supporters at:

Magnum United Shooting Range and the Tactical Defense Institute have always been family

owned and family run. The founders of the business, Adrian and Sheila Rosslee, have been the

driving force behind what you know as Magnum United. While they have been the prevalent

names in the business, they will now be taking a more consultative role in the business and take

on projects and training they feel strongly about. They will both be around to advise