Is Short Siberia still open on the weekends?

[ovenpaa]

Shugie, I would dearly like to put his name in writing however it is probably not wise on the grounds that the forum in general and Christel in particular has been threatened with legal action on certainly three occasions that I can recall including a now ex NRA member.

[Strangely Brown]

Shugie, I would dearly like to put his name in writing however it is probably not wise on the grounds that the forum in general and Christel in particular has been threatened with legal action on certainly three occasions that I can recall including a now ex NRA member.

Bloody hell!

I sincerely hope I feel the wind of change with Andrew Mercer at the helm; we now have an NRA Facebook page which would never have happened under the old guard.

What I didn't like on this forum were the attacks on Karen regarding NRA policy, it was starting to all get a wee bit personal and I felt she had no backing from the moderators when it started.

[ovenpaa]

Mick, At the risk of appearing controversial a bit more support for the NRA from all corners would not go amiss. They are moving into a transitional stage and I really hope they come out of it at the other end a stronger more effective organisation. Personally I feel there are some good things afoot now however there are still some parts of the organisation that could do with an overhaul.

Time will tell.

[Ginger]

Its a shame the NRA don't as I say have there own private forum, and it is also a shame that the likes of Iain and Karen are abused by some, but I know its a hard when you would like to ask a question but the person concerned isn't here with their 'work hat' on but as a private life hat.

I appreciate the work that Karen and Iain put into the board, its just a same that the NRA don't feel they can have a NRA board or an offical presence on Full-Bore.

[ovenpaa]

As far as I know Iain is the only full time NRA employee that contributes on a regular basis to the forum these days and for that I applaud him and always read his posts and observations with interest.

[Ginger]

I must say I do even thought I am causing Iain some grief (sorry), admire him for putting his hear above the parapet here, but it would be nice for an official voice so that people like Iain doesn't have to think about towing the party line etc.

[Gaz]

To be honest Dougan, I don't have the room in the car for that as well, it just seems a poor degradation in the services offered when you go facility with benches & under cover to having to order one. All this is pie in the sky because we have no information from the NRA (no surprise there), about what the future holds, i.e. benches or not.

So because you need to tick a box or write a sentence in the online booking form saying "bench required" if you're booking one of the new short range targets on Century, shooting from the first new firing points raised on that range since the construction of the Great Butt in the 1890s, that's a degradation in service?

Reading some of the posters on here I'm beginning to sympathise more and more with the NRA. And not only because they're now getting off their backsides to provide some decent facilities, at long last.

[Dougan]

There were 2 gentlemen who shot the .22 long range competition from home made benches yesterday (on Butt 19 as it happens) - To be fair, one was a very sturdy contraption with scaffold poles for legs, and may not have fitted in some cars...but the other was a small and light conversion of a folding workbench; which was quite effective...he also brought what looked like an antique wooden child's dinning chair, to which he'd attached mud-feet...which he described as "deliberately esoteric" (Bisley eccentrics make me smile )

...the thing is, that you can't always have everything 'on a plate' for you, and have to make some effort yourself...

[Ginger]

To be honest Dougan, I don't have the room in the car for that as well, it just seems a poor degradation in the services offered when you go facility with benches & under cover to having to order one. All this is pie in the sky because we have no information from the NRA (no surprise there), about what the future holds, i.e. benches or not.

So because you need to tick a box or write a sentence in the online booking form saying "bench required" if you're booking one of the new short range targets on Century, shooting from the first new firing points raised on that range since the construction of the Great Butt in the 1890s, that's a degradation in service?

Reading some of the posters on here I'm beginning to sympathise more and more with the NRA. And not only because they're now getting off their backsides to provide some decent facilities, at long last.

Gaz, as far as I am aware I cannot do online bookings of ranges as I am an individual not a club, if this is incorrect please send me the details.

This post is about SS and the possible loss of the benches and 100yrds shooing during the week being possibly with no benches hence degradation in services. Personally I bring up 2 older shooters when we come to Bisley neither of which can shoot prone and we cannot / wouldn't be able to fit a bench in the car.

[Ginger]

There were 2 gentlemen who shot the .22 long range competition from home made benches yesterday (on Butt 19 as it happens) - To be fair, one was a very sturdy contraption with scaffold poles for legs, and may not have fitted in some cars...but the other was a small and light conversion of a folding workbench; which was quite effective...he also brought what looked like an antique wooden child's dinning chair, to which he'd attached mud-feet...which he described as "deliberately esoteric" (Bisley eccentrics make me smile )

...the thing is, that you can't always have everything 'on a plate' for you, and have to make some effort yourself...

Dougan,

'everything on a plate'? so possibly removing a facility that is already there and not replacing it means I expect things on a plate?

As I said above 2 old shooters, rifles bags etc leaves for a full car, not all of us have 4x4s or estate cars.