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Thread: SHOULD I STAY OPEN?
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03-02-2017, 18:34 #51
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03-02-2017, 18:44 #52
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03-02-2017, 18:47 #53
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03-02-2017, 19:00 #54
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Re: SHOULD I STAY OPEN?
What are the chances they want a slice of the pie?
Possibly hear the range and think tons of customers= tons of money and are jealous?
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10-02-2017, 10:21 #55
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Still waiting for their next move. I hear via the grapevine that a lawyer has been approached.....
I will keep this thread updated on development, as I'm sure other shooting range owners will be interested to see how far a matter like this can be pushed.
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19-02-2017, 21:33 #56
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Re: SHOULD I STAY OPEN?
I was chairman of Somerset West Pistol Club for about 18 months in 2000-2001. We had been harrassed (that's the only word for it) for several years by the neighbouring farm manager. Exactly the same things you describe - noise, ricochets, shotgun shot polluting his grapes when the direction of shot was in an entirely different direction. And of course, the vague notion that the range was "dangerous" without any evidence. He had an easy weapon available to him - as the range is on municipal ground any complaint no matter how spurious got the range closed "pending investigation." In the years before I became chairman, we had sacrificed rifle and shotgun and reduced our shooting to Saturday afternoons only. Each of those things had been sacrificed in return for the promise that no more demands/complaints would be made. But he reneged each time and renewed his attack. As an experienced pro gun activist I was a bit wiser than previous chairmen and recognised that we were being whittled down to extinction. I should add that, in addition to ongoing discussions with the council SAPS had also involved itself. At a meeting in the station commander's office, the farmer, frustrated by my harder attitude, declared that "if we can't get cooperation we'll go for closure" thus declaring what the real aim had been all along. That's when I said that, as he had reneged on every agreement and his intention was now obvious, the club would regard all agreements as null and void and reinstate all activities it had sacrificed, seven days a week.
These people want to close you down. If you give ground they will see it as encouragement to take you down a piece at a time. Record all conversations and keep detailed records of everything that happens and everything that is said. Record all users of the range, calibres and times to the minute. My experience in years of activism has been that the ability to quote hard fact is crucial.
A final point regarding noise is that our opponent relied on that a lot. But when we took decibel readings they showed that the noise at his residence was less than the traffic noise from the road 500m away. And that noise was way below nuisance level - it was in fact barely noticeable.
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19-02-2017, 21:50 #57
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24-02-2017, 15:38 #58
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Thanks for sharing your experience Dick. It's certainly encouraging to know that others have had the same problem and prevailed. It also gives me some food for thought on any further "compromises" that I might have been considering.
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24-02-2017, 16:22 #59
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11-05-2017, 17:33 #60
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Shigawagga
Has there been any movement with regards to your neighbours? I am curious to know if they have given up yet.
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