[Ravensfort] Populace meeting

[Mike]

There is a LARGE mound of dirt in the "parking area" that is slated to be moved to the shooting berm. If anyone has access to a dump truck or trailer that we could borrow for a day we can create a nice smoothe dirt surface on the front of it that should provide an arrow friendly surface to fire into.

Anyone?

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>Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 07:12:10 -0500
>From: Harry Billings <humble_archer at hotmail.com>  
>Subject: Re: [Ravensfort] Populace meeting  
>To: <sftester2 at gmail.com>, <sdw_texas at yahoo.com>
>Cc: ravensfort at lists.ansteorra.org
>
>   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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