Around Evandale parts amid this year's state clay target titles, he's just another shooter from the hundreds in the crowd and that suits the 1996 Olympic gold medallist just fine.

Competitors turned old friends stop past and greet with a "G'day Russ" accompanied by a stiff handshake or a hug.

Mark's fond memories extends to crediting Australian shooting's famous grand site for lifting his own international career 25 years ago off the ground.

"It's been one of the clubs, being such an old club, that you've had such tremendous shooters out of Tasmania who have shot here over the years," Mark said.

"When I think back to the names, it's just got a lot of history and you can tell looking around the place."

Mark, whose own legendary reputation from six Olympic Games appearances that started in 1988 and ended in 2012, still remains in awe of Australia's first-ever Olympic shooter Sperry Marshall.

The Tasmanian, who ventured to West Germany in 1972 for the trap and clay target shooting, made the Evandale club his own on his visits from Hobart.

Leading into the Munich Games, he shot 198 out of 200 clay targets during a practice session to equal the world record.

"In my opinion, there was very few better than Sperry," Mark said.

"When I look back at guys in the sport, he was a legend of this sport.

"He was a tough competitor and won that many more titles that I wouldn't know.

"But the roots of this sport really started in this place."

Mark is quick to notice this place "gets all the diehard competitors" still today.

In spite of turning over a number of elite marksman over the years, the Tasmanian Gun Club could not remain more grassroots to the average shooter.

The sign at the front gate reads founded in 1923 and not much has changed over the years.

Competitors think nothing of scoffing down burgers and cokes between shoots.

Inside the charm of the club rooms, the modern touch of laptops recording scores stand out among the fibro walls and old filing cabinets of yesteryear.

The wearing concrete range has seen better times, but it doesn't affect the dead-eye shots overlooking the barren paddocks.

The cries of "see it and shoot it" still ring true over the generations.

"When I first started, see these traps out here," veteran shooter Nanette McCallum points to little green boxes 15m in front of the shooters, "they were nothing like that."

"They were these little traps and you had someone sitting in there, putting the targets on and you had a bloke back further used to pull a big lever to let the target fly and then he used to push it forward to cock it again."

But she said the gun-slinging stereotype associated with shooting is far from the truth.

"There's a lot of people who class us as rednecks - we're far from rednecks in this sport," he said.

What first catches the eye is the number of youngsters hoisting a gun over their shoulder.

Tasmania's first female state shooter, who has been travelling up to Evandale all but every year for the past four decades, said it's a family-orientated club after she first remembers it once was a male-only domain.

"These kids here, they're not walking the street, they're not on the drugs - they're here with their parents doing something positive," McCallum said.