Double shooting was targeted: NSW police

A double shooting south of Sydney overnight was apparently targeted.

Emergency services were called to a house in Fairy Meadow, near Wollongong, about 11.15pm (AEDT) on Thursday where a 26-year-old man was found with a gunshot wound to his abdomen.

He was taken to Wollongong Hospital for treatment.

"He had blood on his shirt and I said to him, `What happened?'" witness Norman Charlesworth told the Seven Network.

"He said he doesn't know, so he took his shirt off and at the back of him there was a bullet hole."

A 28-year-old man arrived at the hospital for treatment of a gunshot wound to his leg, hand and wrist soon after.

Police believe he too was shot at the Fairy Meadow house.

Wollongong Local Area Command crime manager Darren Kelly said local residents could take some comfort in the targeted nature of the shootings.

"Any sort of incident like this would be worrying for, not just locals, but all people," Detective Acting Inspector Kelly told reporters on Friday.

"However, we do believe it was targeted and it's not an act of random violence."

Both injured men were in a stable condition with non-life threatening injuries on Friday morning.

Police have appealed for anyone with information to come forward.