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Gaz wrote:

Ginger wrote: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.

not all of us have 4x4s or estate cars.

Blu wrote:

not all of us have 4x4s or estate cars.

One doesn't? Gosh one should get one, they're really super don't you know yah.

Blu

Ginger wrote:

Dougan wrote: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.

Dougan wrote:

Ginger wrote:

Dougan wrote: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.

Not being callous, but it sounds like you need a bigger car...

...and it needn't be an expensive 4 x 4 - my W reg Mondeo with over a 100 000 on the clock does the job...

Ginger wrote:thing is a bigger motor just for trips to Bisley is a bit extravagant really. I would love a second larger car but funds don't allow, (Or parking permits either).

Dougan wrote:I'd like to have a smaller second car for going to work in...but like I say, you can't always have everything...

Dougan wrote:Ginger, I do have sympathy for your situation; but the situation with SS being closed Monday to Thursday isn't going to change in the near future...

...try to see some of the positives - From what I saw yesterday, the work on Butt 19 is going well...the paths from the 300 car park to the firing points are now mud free, during the week you'll probably get a spot near the gate in the car park which makes access easy, I'm sure you could have a bench if you want one...and, although you are losing the covered 100 point, you are gaining electronic targets out to 300 yards...

Ginger wrote:

Dougan wrote:Ginger, I do have sympathy for your situation; but the situation with SS being closed Monday to Thursday isn't going to change in the near future...

...try to see some of the positives - From what I saw yesterday, the work on Butt 19 is going well...the paths from the 300 car park to the firing points are now mud free, during the week you'll probably get a spot near the gate in the car park which makes access easy, I'm sure you could have a bench if you want one...and, although you are losing the covered 100 point, you are gaining electronic targets out to 300 yards...

Hi Dougan,

it is just Mondays to Thursdays? I havent' seen that documented hence I was asking all the questions, if SS is open FSS then fine. Again is lack of information on the NRA website.