From: "Alex Hamilton", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Well Alex, for your help and assistance, both Richard and
his father are extremely pleasant and caring people, who
are dedicated to the sport of shooting,
That's not the point, Chris! Their neighbours have an
equal right to become dedicated garden dozers!
We are talking not about just one man's shooting, but
of the opening of a commercial range according to Daily
Mail.
> and your irresponsible comments merely demonstrate your
>snobbery against a discipline you don't undertake - for crying out loud
>- what does it take to get ALL shooters to stand by our sport in a
>unified way??
Well, I fired at 40 "birds" and hit only 11 when I
decided to give up. You can call it snobbery if you like,
but I call it incompetence. I am a dedicated target
shooter and I just could not adapt to firing instinctively,
without careful aim, by which time the clay was beyong
range. I think that target shooting and clays are
incompatible and one almost detracts from the other.
I wrote the original message because I do care about
all shooting sports and I fear that if the neighbours
win this case it may encourage many others to have a go
and close other existing ranges. Believe me, that
is a very real threat. I am not legally qualified to
say whether the law has changed or the attitudes of the
juduciary, but I know that we can no longer rely on the
priciple of "first established activity" and there are
numerous cases where relatively new residents
successfully prosecuted persistent offenders. This is
especally true in case of pleasure activities - we may
have to put up with trains, aircraft and some building
works.
Obviously, I am not aware of the details of the
complaints in this instance, but feuding with one's
neighbours is never a good thing, especially when
shooting is concerned. There are several very effective
ways to reduce the noise and some like landscaping and
using fields in rotation have already been mentioned on
this list.
Complaining and taking legal action is both time
consuming, stressful and very expensive. People do not
do it for kicks, so let us give them full credit for
trying and try to find a solution without the legal
wrangle.
Finally, let me conclude that the general public
already see us as very much as a unified body and the
various disciplines quite inseparable from one another,
so please take a message to the Faulds to be very
careful, because the outcome of their legal case will,
inevitably, reflect on us all, irrespective of whether
they win or lose! It is too late now, but the best
thing for the sport would have been that this case
never happened.
Alex.
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The comment about the commercial range appeared to be
a red herring thrown out by the protestors. If the
Faulds wanted to do that they would have to submit
a seperate planning application, and their neighbours
could object to it in the normal process. That
comment convinced me that they were basically whining
and their argument was pretty thin.
Steve.
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