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snayperskaya - no probs having one of those days myself!

hitchphil - afraid I have no reason to lower myself to your level....so I won't but I must say....best pumpkin explosion sounds a bit more FUN than 'smallest group' or converting all my sighters....I did all that while shooting at Bisley 30 years ago and don't miss it one bit....

Rules of the club I belong to (ok I guess there are some other ones but in reality) = is it safe (#1), is it legal (#2), is it fun (#3).....good enough for us, the plods and the range owner.

Going to call a halt there before yet another post descends into a 'my shooting discipline is better than yours' farce.

Cheers

David

walesdave. 12ga pump action loaded with buckshot, damn good fun on water melons and pumpkins

Let me elaborate with regardto Sevenside, I am a member there and shoot as often as I can, I can assure anyone concerned that it is A VERY SAFE RANGE, Richard Williams the range owner, is also the safety officer there and takes range safety very seriously!!!

Just to remind everyone that shooting is supposed to be fun, nothing wrong with pulping pumpkins!

I love Severnside for its relaxed multi discipline shooting, its a fine range! Also us shooters tend to police each other, regarding saftey and comments are made for any infrigments.

OK lets live and let live a little.

A pumpkin as an aiming mark is just as valid as a round bull so long as it used within the range safety parameters, and nowhere here can I see that it is being suggested otherwise.

Ranges cater for different styles of shooting all of which are equally valid.

Shooting has to be safe but it also has to be fun, if none of us found it so the we wouldn't stick with it so and we all can have different ideas if what constitutes fun and we shooters, especially as threatened species, should respect that.

We are divided enough at a national level, let us not bring these division down to a local level or e are truly doomed.

huntervixen wrote:Let me elaborate with regardto Sevenside, I am a member there and shoot as often as I can, I can assure anyone concerned that it is A VERY SAFE RANGE, Richard Williams the range owner, is also the safety officer there and takes range safety very seriously!!!

Just to remind everyone that shooting is supposed to be fun, nothing wrong with pulping pumpkins!

I love Severnside for its relaxed multi discipline shooting, its a fine range! Also us shooters tend to police each other, regarding saftey and comments are made for any infrigments.

Let me +1 that for emphasis......been going there for years and its good and safe. Richard is a top bloke.

Absolutely agree with the previous couple of posts. Severnside is extremely safe and well run.
Nowhere in my posts did I say any shootinging was indiscriminate or unaimed.
If any of the earlier posters are unable to control their firearms when rapid firing, that is their issue. Personally, along with many others, I CAN be safe and on target when 'dumping a mag'.

walesdave wrote:Absolutely agree with the previous couple of posts. Severnside is extremely safe and well run.
Nowhere in my posts did I say any shootinging was indiscriminate or unaimed.
If any of the earlier posters are unable to control their firearms when rapid firing, that is their issue. Personally, along with many others, I CAN be safe and on target when 'dumping a mag'.

Jerry Miculek can dump a mag pretty accurately and safely! tongueout

Horse's for courses at the end of the day, I have no interest in shooting ragged holes at 100m week in week out but if you like it, all the best of luck to you-I'll happily fight your corner in order for you to do that. I get more joy from collecting and shooting my rifles at targets that react when hit-usually fig 11s or some steel ringers. So I can certainly see the pleasure in demolishing a melon or pumpkin at 300m, if the O.P is safe (which I'm sure he is) as his club wouldn't stand for it. I don't see any problem.

Shooting needs to be fun to ensure younger or new people are coming into it, so we must make sure we cater and accept everyone's likes and wants, abilities and interests in a safe manner within the rules we are bound by as FAC holders.

+1 for dromia's comments.

FFS, people - stop getting your 19th century panties in a twist. It's fruit, not babies' heads.

SevenSixTwo wrote:+1 for dromia's comments.

FFS, people - stop getting your 19th century panties in a twist. It's fruit, not babies' heads.

Isn't a pumpkin a vegetable?.....and a coconuts about the size of a babies head isn't it?

depends on the baby and how big a coconut you find...

borrow a baby next time you buy your coconuts?