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stray round from a rifle range?
Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2012 4:57 pm
by murphwiz
http://www.cornwallchannel.co.uk/gun-bu ... -landlady/
Sounds a bit odd.... someones gonna get seriously busted if this is true!
Re: stray round from a rifle range?
Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2012 5:08 pm
by Watcher
Sometimes there is more to these stories than meets the eye. For example some people don't like having rifles ranges near their home.....
Re: stray round from a rifle range?
Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2012 5:16 pm
by Dangermouse
This kind of story concerns me more than some one running around with a gun shooting people. If we can not keep it safe on the range then we really are letting ourselves in for a lot of trouble. I wonder if the chap had a safe shooter certificate? If so if the person who signed him off as safe will come under any pressure?
Of course the whole thing could be made up but at the moment I am prepared to believe her story. the chances of getting a fired round that just happens to be the same calibre as the rifle the one person on the range is shooting would be slim ish. It is actually surprising that a responding officer can determine what calibre that bullet was - I certainly could not by just handling the majority of ammunition.
If there are trees in the way then someone needs to do some mathematics and work out if the trajectory is even possible.
Rounds do leave ranges and if it has the range needs to learn why and hopefully be able to show the local constabulary that it has been able to fix the problem, should that be shooter training or physical changes to the range.
DM
Looks like it could be this club, no notice re it being closed, at £30 per annum membership a good little club to be a member of. Looks like the range near this story is a 200 meter one.
http://www.cfbpc.btinternet.co.uk/index.htm
MODS if I am breaking any rules or you feel it is unfair me posting that link I will not mind you removing it,
DM
Re: stray round from a rifle range?
Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2012 5:34 pm
by dromia
Sounds like a thing our national bodies should be involved in helping to sort out.
Re: stray round from a rifle range?
Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2012 5:36 pm
by murphwiz
Video showed a sign for st austell rpc...
Which is quite odd as their website appears to show them as an indoor range?!
http://www.staustellrifleandpistolclub.co.uk/
Re: stray round from a rifle range?
Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2012 5:57 pm
by Sandgroper
Looking at google maps :roll: the address for St Austell RPC and the Street shown in the report don't seem to match. It seems they're about 3 miles apart!
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=st+aust ... CF4Q_AUoAg
Re: stray round from a rifle range?
Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2012 5:58 pm
by Chuck
take all these things with a pinch of salt where the media are concerned....and dubious reports attributed to the police.
Simple enough to dig a round out of a backstop and then claim it landed near you.
Re: stray round from a rifle range?
Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2012 6:45 pm
by ovenpaa
I would have expected at least a photograph of the errant round or a concerned person pointing at a hole...
Re: stray round from a rifle range?
Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2012 6:50 pm
by Dangermouse
That is what I thought, then I remembered that it would haversack been evidence and taken away by the Police,
DM
Re: stray round from a rifle range?
Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2012 7:14 pm
by Watcher
...and were was the hole in her cottage wall?