alsaqr
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i never cease to be amazed at the photos of private shooting ranges. Firing range safety and firing range design are some things that i do. i've also testified as an expert witness at trials.
Few people own the real estate to maximum range of the firearm: Therefore a firing range must have a proper backstop or berm: Trees will not get it done. Hills located on another persons property won't get it. Small hills do not provide adequate backstops. The reason; close in ricochets send bullets over the hill. Every round that leaves your property has your name on it.
For decades the Fort Sill Medicine Bluff private weapons range operated safely. While holding a deer drawing in the crowded parking lot of the Sportsman's Center, a heavy muzzleloader rifle bullet hit a pickup. The shooter had a close in ricochet that sent the bullet over the intervening 200 foot tall hill. End of firing range.
About ten years a boy playing ball in the Bray, OK schoolyard was struck in the buttocks with a .30 caliber bullet. The boy was lucky, the bullet could have struck his spine or chest. The bullet was fired from a two groove Springfield rifle barrel. The shooter was never found.
Few people own the real estate to maximum range of the firearm: Therefore a firing range must have a proper backstop or berm: Trees will not get it done. Hills located on another persons property won't get it. Small hills do not provide adequate backstops. The reason; close in ricochets send bullets over the hill. Every round that leaves your property has your name on it.
For decades the Fort Sill Medicine Bluff private weapons range operated safely. While holding a deer drawing in the crowded parking lot of the Sportsman's Center, a heavy muzzleloader rifle bullet hit a pickup. The shooter had a close in ricochet that sent the bullet over the intervening 200 foot tall hill. End of firing range.
About ten years a boy playing ball in the Bray, OK schoolyard was struck in the buttocks with a .30 caliber bullet. The boy was lucky, the bullet could have struck his spine or chest. The bullet was fired from a two groove Springfield rifle barrel. The shooter was never found.
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