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"Filth" <rossnoades@hotmail.com> wrote in
news:cggh2u$jca$1@titan.btinternet.com:
> I can shoot whilst listening to music. I would
> like electronic ones though, so I can hear in the unlikely event that
> a trespasser creeps up on me. (This includes the police firearms
> officers, who probably wouldn't be impressed if I ket shooting whilst
> they were 10ft away asking me to cease!)
On one hand one would expect any person to make sure that the shooter
knows they are in the vicinity but as everyone knows all too well,
people don’t think and they don’t stick to footpaths. Over the years, I
can not recall a close shave whilst I’ve been target shooting. The
likely reason being that I always set-up my ranges in ideal locations,
where I have a good view of the surroundings and a very safe back stop
which also has a good surround view. One of my newest ranges is 500yds;
the firing position is on high ground, over looking 400yds of open
valley. The target zone is located on open and soft rising ground.
My ammunition testing range has a steep rising back stop of soft earth;
the firing point is just 50yds back. It’s located in small woodland,
which reduces the muzzle report of the rifle, a necessity due to it
being my test range and a lot of ammunition will be shot during a test.
I then have several 100 & 200 yd ranges which do not really lend
themselves to prolonged firing due to the muzzle report from CF rifles.
So in practice my ranges differ depending upon the reason I’m shooting.
>On that last note, I ALWAYS
> ALWAYS ALWAYS inform the local police that I'm to be shooting and how
> long for, who with and of course a contact phone number. I then let
> them know when I'm done.
I can understand your reasons why but IMO it’s no concern of the police
when or where I shoot, as long as I’m shooting legally. On many
occasions I’ve had the police helicopter hover over my firing position,
I think they pilots have gotten to know my car, sometime they hang
around as if they are checking my scores out, then they fly off into the
sunset (bless them!).
For me to contact the police every time I went shooting would be a
serious drain on their resources, I might go shooting 8 times a week
give time. I might wake early and go stalking before work (bummer when I
shoot a deer), I could be on one of any number of farms in any number of
districts in a circumference of 100 miles of my home, crossing multiple
force areas. I guess you get the picture
John
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