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Century Range Located Fantastic on the Weekend

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Not really much of a discussion point I know but I just wanted to say how extremely well maintained it looked!
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Quarters wrote:Not really much of a discussion point I know but I just wanted to say how extremely well maintained it looked!
Well they've tidied up the 100 yard point but behind there it's like a ploughed field which made for a challenging rundown at the Methuen Cup last weekend.
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Don't disagree with you racalman 100 yard point good and the others to be fair, but yeah the run downs were challenging. And between the firing points was a bit poor. Perhaps they will improve them as more active disciplines take off at bisley.
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Racalman wrote:
Quarters wrote:Not really much of a discussion point I know but I just wanted to say how extremely well maintained it looked!
Well they've tidied up the 100 yard point but behind there it's like a ploughed field which made for a challenging rundown at the Methuen Cup last weekend.
If you think that was bad, you should have been doing rundowns a couple of years back. The current range is a bowling green compared to the Somme-like morass it used to be especially in the wet. It looks like they have levelled out the site of Century lake so no more running through a foot deep of tyre track rutted water.

It's very much improved.
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channel12 wrote:
Racalman wrote:
Quarters wrote:Not really much of a discussion point I know but I just wanted to say how extremely well maintained it looked!
Well they've tidied up the 100 yard point but behind there it's like a ploughed field which made for a challenging rundown at the Methuen Cup last weekend.
If you think that was bad, you should have been doing rundowns a couple of years back. The current range is a bowling green compared to the Somme-like morass it used to be especially in the wet. It looks like they have levelled out the site of Century lake so no more running through a foot deep of tyre track rutted water.

It's very much improved.
Am I right in thinking the water table on Century is very high? It seems to gather standing water exceptionally quickly when it rains.
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channel12 wrote: If you think that was bad, you should have been doing rundowns a couple of years back.
I was, but I have a short memory ;)

It is definitely drier now, but to achieve that they appear to have added a drainage ditch which reminded me, as I vaulted it, of my school cross country runs.
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Racalman wrote:
channel12 wrote: If you think that was bad, you should have been doing rundowns a couple of years back.
I was, but I have a short memory ;)

It is definitely drier now, but to achieve that they appear to have added a drainage ditch which reminded me, as I vaulted it, of my school cross country runs.
Same ditches but now cleaned out, others have been culverted, the big ditch just forward of the 400 yard has gone.

At least no more picking fired cases out of icy, muddy puddles at the 100 yard point.
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