From: "Peter Sarony", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ref your comment about the bullet going over the butts landing
in the danger area a gallery range template is reduced to take
into acount the stop butts and is about 2900 yds a 7.62 round
at optimum elevation will travel approx 4400 yds GALLERY RANGES
ARE NOT DESIGNED TO ALLOW BULLETS TO BE SHOT OVER THE BUTTS!
THE TEMPLATE IS TO TAKE ACCOUNT OF POP OVERS AND RICOCHETS
HENCE THE NEW NRA RULE AND INSISTANCE OF RIFLES BEING POINTED
AT THE STOPBUTTS WHEN CLOSING BOLTS.
It is a misconception that if you fire over the butts all will
be safe.
That's all very fine, but I believe the painter was atop a scaffold in
Aldershot, some 8 miles from Bisley ranges that were blamed (Short Siberia),
yet far far closer closer to certain MoD ranges that were in use by the
services at the time of the accident. I seem to recall that they first
thought the man had had a heart attack or had just fallen, but only later
discovered a 7.62 bullet wound.
The other accident was at Stoney Castle No2 (Field Firing) Range in about
1984/5. Allegedly, a lady botanist had been given permission to study the
flora and fauna in the danger area on a certain Monday, when that and the
other ranges in that complex were normally closed. The lady concerned, it
was alleged if I remember correctly, decided to visit the site in the danger
area on the Tuesday!!
There was another incident when soldiers from local barracks were running in
the danger area and one was shot by a pop-over from the ETR.
Another incident I believe was allegedly at a junior school where a young
girl received a wound in the thigh from a 9mm bullet that had eminated from
a MoD range some 1800 yds away in use by a police unit, though the
trajectory would have been from a projectile travelling in the opposite
direction to one fired from the firing point towards the butts!
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