Bisley shooting

[Pete]

Myself and a couple of mates share a target, usually 600 or 1000yds, weekdays roughly once a fortnight.
As Mag41uk says, 4 hours shooting for as little as £25.

To get "on the paper", use the Zero range, or barrel sight and a chronograph in conjunction with a ballistics prog like Litz's.

Pete

[GeeRam]

Totally agree with all comments here. I can understand the NRA raising funds from the Nuclear Police but unfortunately this has been at the inconvenience of fee paying members who should come first in any considerations such as this. Siberia is a unique range in the Bisley complex being ideal for 100/200 yard zeroing in a protected windfree environment which is far in excess of the police's requirements. I have tried zeroing at 100 yards on Century but its like being in a wind tunnel! The Police could use many other Bisley ranges for their limited requirements, but they obviously want the seclusion of Siberia. Just why the NRA don't donate some space and let them build their own range is beyond me. Equally the reactor sites they guard have huge expanses of land in usually remote situations, so why can't they build a range on their own land?

So which Nuc Plod is using Bisley?

Bisley is a long way from the nearest Nuc Reactor site, and further from any of those than a MOD range would be?

Lydd is right on the doorstep of Dungeness, and there's suitable ranges near Sizewell? Can't imagine they are coming all the way up from Hinkley Point?

[Strangely Brown]

So which Nuc Plod is using Bisley?

Aldermaston I believe.

[GeeRam]

So which Nuc Plod is using Bisley?

Aldermaston I believe.

aaarggh


That should have been blindingly obvious to me given I used to work with a few people that now work there ......

[Dark Skies]

So which Nuc Plod is using Bisley?

Aldermaston I believe.

I think also from Harwell - although you'd think they'd use Otmoor MOD range as it's so much nearer. Then again it's pretty primitive from what I've seen of it.

[Mattnall]

Isn't 200yds on Century available during the week?

[Chapuis]

The simple fact of the matter is that without hiring out certain ranges to the police the NRA would have been in an extremely vulnerable position and very possibly may not have survived.
Maybe it galls to pass those ranges and find that they are not in use at that particular time but the range time has been sold and is no longer available to the NRA. I don't know if you have ever tried to organise a training programme but resources need to be available and it is a complete pain in the arris to try and work around other users so it is much easier to simply block book and perhaps not fully utalise facilities but at least have them available should you require them.

The location and availability of MOD ranges in various parts of the country is totally irrelevant. As Bisley is being used as a central training facility and a fairly good one at that.

Just be grateful that the NRA were able to come to an arrangement with the police because I personally have no doubt whatsoever that without this much needed influx of rent Bisley would be a very different place and maybe may not be at all.

[ColinR]

The simple fact of the matter is that without hiring out certain ranges to the police the NRA would have been in an extremely vulnerable position and very possibly may not have survived.
Maybe it galls to pass those ranges and find that they are not in use at that particular time but the range time has been sold and is no longer available to the NRA. I don't know if you have ever tried to organise a training programme but resources need to be available and it is a complete pain in the arris to try and work around other users so it is much easier to simply block book and perhaps not fully utalise facilities but at least have them available should you require them.

The location and availability of MOD ranges in various parts of the country is totally irrelevant. As Bisley is being used as a central training facility and a fairly good one at that.

Just be grateful that the NRA were able to come to an arrangement with the police because I personally have no doubt whatsoever that without this much needed influx of rent Bisley would be a very different place and maybe may not be at all.

In effect you are saying the membership should just grin and bear it - the reason the NRA got into this position was due to mismanagement, no management. Its easy to rent out existing facilities to generate some cash and to be fair it has been re-invested, but now they should be considering releasing SS back to the membership, sorting out an other arrangement with CNC and allowing members full use of the facilities they pay for. I'm sure you'd not be so happy if, as a solution to another financial crisis the NRA were to block book Century or Stickledown to some outside agency.

[Dark Skies]

Just be grateful that the NRA were able to come to an arrangement with the police because I personally have no doubt whatsoever that without this much needed influx of rent Bisley would be a very different place and maybe may not be at all.

I've nothing to be grateful for - I've been paying full memberships dues every year but found myself squeezed out of my preferred ranges to the extent that I now can rarely shoot there. Fortunately it seems the new range at Silverstone will be completed round about the time the NRA will be expecting me to renew membership.

[polemass]

Not only is hard to book SS but price went up too.As Colin R stated-they need to REARRANGE things.I am looking also for closer to me club and if nothing improves-in 2 years time,I am out.200m is only available one weekend per month on SS-this improved the things on 100m-more prone lines.But at the same time 200m at Century is not covering the changes-bad planing