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2009

• Cars on the range.
• Extra shoots versus GA-season extended
• Shooter Certification Cards
• An excellent set of questions can be found here on the British Deer Society's web site, together with answers.
• Rifle usage cards
• TR/F
• AGM
• Programme

Championship - 30-Aug

Concerning the Championship, this was sent to all members, but some people's email does not work.

Cars on the range

Revised version.

At the BSA AGM, the issue of cars on the range was raised once again, and there is now some clarity of what the rules are.  

But first some back ground:- The lease that the BSA holds for use of the field, which the BSA inherited from TAVRA, covers use of the firing points and a small strip at the left hand edge of the field.  The TAVRA right of vehicular access for was presumed to be one Bedford truck that could deliver and removes stores [e.g. amunition] and act as an ambulance. For the first 20 years of my membership of F&K, F&K managed without any vechicles on the range. And that was not because the membership was younger; we had then retirees - sadly now passed on, such as Tim MacMillan, Bert Schnazel etc. It is only in recent years that members have taken vehicles on to the range, and in increasing numbers.

At the meeting, it was mentioned that the owner of the field [Mr Meikland] had sought out a member of the BSA committee and that he was 'really agitated' and had said 'sort it out or else I shall padlock the gate'. Perhaps because in the past few years the field was used for animals this has not been an issue, but this year it is an issue for it is a commercial crop.  It is most important that clubs & members using the BSA facility do not abuse the terms of BSA's lease nor damage relationships with the owners, especially because the BSA hopes to negotiate an extension to the lease.

Hence the following extra range orders: -

1. Shooters must be aware of possibilty of crop damage on the range, and shall conduct themselves accordingly.
2. The Range Duty Officer for the day may designate at most one vehicle which may drive up & down the range.
3. The RDO may decide that it is inappropriate to take any vehicle what so ever into the field, for reasons of crop or field damage.
4. The designated vehicle will make at most one return trip up & down the range.
5. So as to minimise crop damage, the designated vehicle shall be driven as close as sensible to the left hand boundary of the field.

Whether that means that the one vechicle shall be a 4x4, I leave to other drivers to decide; I, for one, do not drive my [saloon] car up the range. The BSA AGM further discussed the issue of car parking -- in the field. It is felt that parking cars at the bottom of the field (i.e. the triangular area bounded the gate, the acoustic wall and the fence, approximately) was OK, if treated as a priviledge for it is not a right. However again that has to be interpreted sensibly, for damaging any crops would be mega-unhelpful to the interests of shooters using the range.
Brian Woodroffe sec/treas. 21/May/2009

Original version

This year the field over which the BSA shoots is being used for sillage; i.e. commercial crop. At today's shoot, the farmer came up and remarked [to George Falls] that the vehicle tracks up the field would damage the crop, and especially the one driven slant-wise to the right will not grow out. I believe this track was made by another club, but issue applys to all users of the range. For many years F&K survived without any vehicles on the range. At most it is permitted to have one ambulance on the range.  Therefore will members please stop taking their vehicles into the field, and the at-most one ambulance should keep to the far left edge.

Extra shoots versus GA-season extended

Rifle usage cards

The rifle usage cards in the binder are now obsolete, but they will be stored for the record. Usage of members' target shooting firearms, as required by law [another creeping imposition of the big brother state at its citizens' expense] will be done by using the box on the score card and the secretary transcribing the number into the results spreadsheet back home, off range.

Members who do not fill in the serial number, will have no-return entered as the rifle's serial number.  Whether a member considers this adequate relative to the law's requirement that separate usage of target rifle is for the member to decide.

Shooter Certification Cards

The club has received 2009 Shooter Certification Cards from the NRA. Those members wishing a card, and you will need one to shoot on military ranges (e.g. Castlelaw, Ponteland, Bisley etc, but not Blairadam nor Glen Tilt) should approach Robbie Taylor:-

You should state what discipline or disciplines you shoot. [Note: F&K's NRA affiliation number is 330.]

• Telescoped sighted rifle (i.e. F-class, open or TR)
• Iron sighted rifle (i.e. TR)
• HME firearms / ammunition - I expect such persons to have completed the approved course.

TR/F

As a result of the votes received on this matter for 2009, F&K shall :-

1. TR-F shall be shooting on the TR Vee bull
2. TR-F shall be permitted the use of a 'back bag'.

2008 AGM

• Minutes: here  
• Password: use the value you use at Blairadam.

Programme

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