Originally Posted by
abunaitoo
This is a city run, public park. So far, no charge to shoot there.
No charge to use the tennis courts, basketball courts, soccer, football, baseball fields, pools, gyms or any of the other public parks.
We do have to pay to golf. $11.00 a round.
All parks have a crew of city workers.
Being a city run park, no repairs can be done without it first going out to bid.
Freebies are not allowed.
When the wind blew off a part of the roof.
The city closed the range down untill the roof could be secured.
Some of the shooters went and removed the flaping parts, and nailed down the parts that were loose.
Kind of got into some problems with the city for that.
Who is above the person in charge of City Parks and Recreation(who sounds like someone well versed in CYA and territory protectionism)?
You need to invite this person out shooting with some people with black rifles
and after a short period of unstopped brass throwing put up a screen to demonstrate the need. And talk to him about community pride of ownership and how you would like the clubs to be able to help upgrade without cost to the city in these hard economic times.
A few of our clubs were planing to fix the roof. For free. City put a stop to it.
City would rather pay someone to fix it, than have it done for free.
Any donations made to the range would not necessarily go to the range.
All donation go into a general fund.
From there some bureaucrat decides where the monies are needed the most.
It took 5 years for the light bulb in the restroom to be replaced.
They just shut down two of the three bathrooms.
You also need to cultivate someone in the local media to get these things in the public eye - there is NO reason it takes 5 years to change a light bulb. And make a point to cultivate the elected officials - that's where the pressure can be put on the hired guns.
The firing line is set-up with a bench, an open slot for standing/prone shooting, then another bench, another open slot...... If I remember correct there are 64 benches.
Range master is against anything between the benches blocking his view of any of the shooters.
Sounds like needs to move his observation position and make sure whatever you use as a deflector gives visiblity through.
Range I use most of the time is rifle only. There is a pistol only range.
Hot brass hitting the next shooter si not as big a problem as with the rifle side.
We have almost no range rules.
Eye and ear protection for shooters.
Firearms must be transported in a commercially made case.
Firearms, cased and un-cased at the bench only.
No un-cased firearms behind the firing line.
5 rounds max in the firearm.
No rapid fire.
Firearms must always be pointed down range.
Shoot at targets only. No cans, balls, bottles, or anyother non-target targets.
All shooters must sign in.
There wasn't a real problem untill about three years ago.
That's when the shooting population boomed. (I wonder why)
Are you referring to election of Barack Hussein Obama II?
Or just general Government interference in shooting sports
I shoot mostly on Sundays.
Before I never had to wait for a bench. These days, the wait is about 1/2 hour.
Before most of the shooters were bolt action hunters or vintage firearm shooters.
These day majority are black gun. Spray and pray type of shooting.
Which is why the problem of hot brass has come up.
You know back when I was a range officer I noticed timing was everything, on a day you always had a time period when it was slow (except for sight in days). You might try adjusting your shooting times - before church - late afternoon - lunch time - it can make a real difference.
Our city government, as a whole, are anti-gun.
Same with the state government.
Over 90% damacrats.
The few friends we have in government have been working hard keeping the range open.
News media is just as bad.
They report, and distort, on anything that makes the range look bad.
Have you actually talked to the sports reporter? We did that, had got him out shooting 22's and he started reporting on match results Junior Rifle team then we worked him up to reporting on sillywet matches we had.
I know some day they will find some reason to close the only range we have.
Unlike in the states, we don't have much open range to go to and shoot.
We don't really have much hunting areas left anymore.
There's a push to turn this into a smoke free state.
I'm sure their looking for ways to make it a gun free state also.