[Ravensfort] Populace meeting

[Harry Billings]

I was not thinking about being unsafe as to going over the bream but as to possible damage to arrows hitting the bream we want to shoot our misses again and there is not a target big enough that it can not be missed.

plachoya 
Ansteorra



> 
> As for the archery people... Ok, I have personally witnessed many,
> many, MANY thousands of rounds of ammunition from .22LR to .338 Lapua
> Magnum fired out of everything from itty bitty revolvers to belt feds
> on a tripod to full auto submachine guns to sniper rifles, and there
> was never at any point in any way, shape, or form an unsafe situation
> resulting from the site or berm. Ever. There may have been an
> occasional accidently muzzle sweep, but I never saw or heard about it.
> The berm is safe for .50 BMG and beyond. Now, with that in mind, can
> anyone possibly explain to me how an arrow with a field tip fired out
> of a recurve or longbow that a human has to draw can POSSIBLY stand a
> chance of penetrating the berm or, in the case of someone screwing up
> royally and firing over it, make it to even the property line through
> the dense foliage directly behind the berm? Now I'm not an archery
> expert, as a matter of fact I'm not an expert at many things, but I do
> have a fair amount of knowledge and training with firearms and
> ballistics, and I can promise that the shooting range is far beyond
> sufficient for use as an archery range.
> 
> Ok, I'll stop ranting now. I should go chase bad guys for a bit before
> they start thinking they run the place again.
> 
> *goes poof*
> 
> Oh, one last thing. The site isn't much smaller than the Stones. Less
> spread out, but the utilized area isn't a whole lot less.
> 
> Ok, one more one last thing. I would be out there every week and
> taking an officer position if it weren't for another officer position
> I've sworn to fill. That's my excuse, take it or leave it.
> -- 
> Gundy, who is at work more than he isn't
> "Maybe the first thing one should demand
> of his sidearm is that it be unfair."
> Col. "Jeff" Cooper, USMC Ret.
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