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<blockquote data-quote="Old teacher" data-source="post: 727213" data-attributes="member: 48420"><p>Lazz: I am about as frustrated as a shooter can get right now. The knee is coming along nicely, but is taking longer than I expected, but it was a total reconstruction, so I should be happy that I can already walk without even a cane, but I am having trouble getting it flexible, which is typical I am told. What I am really frustrated about is that we lost our only shooting range. We had a decent range where we have shot for 20 years for $10 day. Two guys came in with AK's and shot up the whole range...the benches, the targets berms, the roof over the benches, everything, including a couple of houses several hundred yards down the terrain from the range.T he range owners shut everything down, got the NRA to come up and help them design a safer and more user friendly range. Even though my partner and I were well known at the range and were on their mailing list, we were not informed that the owners went to a membership system, 100 memberships at $200 a year. We arrived one day to shoot and discovered we were numbers 101 and 102 on the waiting list. The memberships fees are way out of line. It is a short (200 yd) range with mediocre facilities. There is only one other range within driving distance and it is a hot line. What is the point of shooting if you cannot get your targets to measure your groups? So we have been relegated to a local gravel pit. We have tried for years to get a first class facility on a piece of land within driving distance of all the local communities and far enough up in the boonies to not bother anyone or be dangerous to anyone. The committee working on this has gotten the go-ahead from the county, has the money and donations of heavy equipment, etc., but we have been stopped in the courts by an anti group of extremist tree huggers. Here is the argument that has us at a stand still. There is a stream in the "area" and the anti's claim that lead from the range will leach into the stream and pollute it. The stream is TEN MILES from the range site!!!!! So, I do not know what we and a lot of other people are going to do. Including the beauty that you built for me, I have another $10,000 in rifles that I have purchased in the last six months that I have yet to fire even once. The range we were trying to get built was going to be first class...trap and skeet, indoor and outdoor pistol and rifle, a thousand yard outdoor long distance rifle range, a beautiful clubhouse, etc. It was going to be built to provide a quality place for all of us to use and to draw local, state, and hopefully national competitions. I have not heard anything lately, so I do not know if the whole project is dead or if the people who were the driving force are still trying to find an answer to the court's decision. I do know one thing, we have a judge to replace.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Old teacher, post: 727213, member: 48420"] Lazz: I am about as frustrated as a shooter can get right now. The knee is coming along nicely, but is taking longer than I expected, but it was a total reconstruction, so I should be happy that I can already walk without even a cane, but I am having trouble getting it flexible, which is typical I am told. What I am really frustrated about is that we lost our only shooting range. We had a decent range where we have shot for 20 years for $10 day. Two guys came in with AK's and shot up the whole range...the benches, the targets berms, the roof over the benches, everything, including a couple of houses several hundred yards down the terrain from the range.T he range owners shut everything down, got the NRA to come up and help them design a safer and more user friendly range. Even though my partner and I were well known at the range and were on their mailing list, we were not informed that the owners went to a membership system, 100 memberships at $200 a year. We arrived one day to shoot and discovered we were numbers 101 and 102 on the waiting list. The memberships fees are way out of line. It is a short (200 yd) range with mediocre facilities. There is only one other range within driving distance and it is a hot line. What is the point of shooting if you cannot get your targets to measure your groups? So we have been relegated to a local gravel pit. We have tried for years to get a first class facility on a piece of land within driving distance of all the local communities and far enough up in the boonies to not bother anyone or be dangerous to anyone. The committee working on this has gotten the go-ahead from the county, has the money and donations of heavy equipment, etc., but we have been stopped in the courts by an anti group of extremist tree huggers. Here is the argument that has us at a stand still. There is a stream in the "area" and the anti's claim that lead from the range will leach into the stream and pollute it. The stream is TEN MILES from the range site!!!!! So, I do not know what we and a lot of other people are going to do. Including the beauty that you built for me, I have another $10,000 in rifles that I have purchased in the last six months that I have yet to fire even once. The range we were trying to get built was going to be first class...trap and skeet, indoor and outdoor pistol and rifle, a thousand yard outdoor long distance rifle range, a beautiful clubhouse, etc. It was going to be built to provide a quality place for all of us to use and to draw local, state, and hopefully national competitions. I have not heard anything lately, so I do not know if the whole project is dead or if the people who were the driving force are still trying to find an answer to the court's decision. I do know one thing, we have a judge to replace. [/QUOTE]
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