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Re: snow! cancelled range day.
Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 9:09 pm
by Dougan
Burner wrote:You close the range because of snow?
Why???
That looks great tongueout
Today it was lovely out clearing some snow - just hovering at 0C, but bright, no wind and low humidity...much better conditions for shooting than at the Trafalgar (An October meeting over here), when it was damp, dark, muddy and drizzling...
...but I would imagine it has nothing to do with shooting conditions, and more to do with our daft health and safety laws...access to the car park, slipping on the path/steps to the butts etc....
Re: snow! cancelled range day.
Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2013 1:46 pm
by Gaz
We scrubbed our planned Sunday shoot - partly because the NRA closed the ranges, but also because some of the drivers were a bit worried about the state of the range roads at Bisley, which are bad enough without an inch-thick covering of snow and ice!
Re: snow! cancelled range day.
Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2013 4:17 pm
by Meaty
Dougan wrote:Burner wrote:You close the range because of snow?
Why???
That looks great tongueout
Today it was lovely out clearing some snow - just hovering at 0C, but bright, no wind and low humidity...
much better conditions for shooting than at the Trafalgar (An October meeting over here), when it was damp, dark, muddy and drizzling...
...but I would imagine it has nothing to do with shooting conditions, and more to do with our daft health and safety laws...access to the car park, slipping on the path/steps to the butts etc....
Aah! That was the weekend that I found out my waterproof tent was no longer waterproof
(and my mate found out that I snored like a Gatling gun after I had had a few pints tongueout )
Re: snow! cancelled rabge day.
Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2013 6:08 pm
by David-mauser
billgatese30 wrote:Last range day I had the place was white and the temperature was in the minus figures, I had already passed an articulated truck which had jacknifed on the black ice on the A1 too. I guess we must be a bit hardier up north tongueout
You were lucky, son! Here in Wales we dream of getting those kinda clement conditions, last time I shot I had to put the 8mm rounds in my ‘Y’ fronts for an hour just to get them to go off!
Re: snow! cancelled rabge day.
Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2013 6:35 pm
by dromia
David-mauser wrote: last time I shot I had to put the 8mm rounds in my ‘Y’ fronts for an hour just to get them to go off!
How Welsh!
Re: snow! cancelled rabge day.
Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2013 7:39 pm
by David-mauser
dromia wrote:David-mauser wrote: last time I shot I had to put the 8mm rounds in my ‘Y’ fronts for an hour just to get them to go off!
How Welsh!
I'm not
I'm :flag5: !
Re: snow! cancelled range day.
Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2013 8:03 pm
by dromia
So its just your behaviour that is Welsh.
Re: snow! cancelled range day.
Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2013 1:36 am
by hitchphil
Gaz wrote:We scrubbed our planned Sunday shoot - partly because the NRA closed the ranges, but also because some of the drivers were a bit worried about the state of the range roads at Bisley, which are bad enough without an inch-thick covering of snow and ice!
Pha! students these days!...What is the world coming to when a Uni club wont venture out becuse of darned snow?
..... Rocks chair, lights pipe.......
No when i wuz a student on a snowey Wed sports asoc afternoon we just found a member with a LWB Land Rover, bribed him with beer (or nicked his van?) booked 600yds & backed it up as far on the FP as we dared & with the engine running & heater a blowing we laid down inside pumping in bulls & V's. :shakeshout:
& when the Range office (in those days round the corner where Karens office used to be) said hey 'boys' how did you get on we said hey just fine 'old man', fine :lol: & drove off to the Royal Std for beef & ale pie & beer.
My Automatic MPV could have made Biz on Sat no problem! (it did a hill to take Ollie sledging) & I could have shot fine at 300, just every body looks out the window at snow & thinks 'day off'?...........appart from students it seems?
Let the abuse begin....... :55: clapclap tongueout
Re: snow! cancelled range day.
Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2013 3:39 am
by tkd67
Got an email of club sec saying that they need 8 ppl to help shift the snow, due to the entrance being on a slope...if they didnt get 8 ppl volunteer....no shoot......At least sunday is forcast 8/10 degrees with rain clapclap
Re: snow! cancelled range day.
Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2013 9:36 am
by David-mauser
No shooting again today!
Trouble is our ranges (100m,50m and 25m) are situated in the base of an old stone quarry with sides about 100’ high and apparently it’s now full to the brim with snow. There has been talk about us hollowing out the snow from the shooting line to the butts thereby creating indoor ranges but it’ll probably take the committee 6 or 7months to make any decisions.
