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Old 07-21-2012, 12:41 AM
32-40win 32-40win is offline
 
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What is needed in Calgary area is something along the river or a big coulee.
Which would need to be a big old gravel pit or something of that ilk. Then try to get county development approval ( not likely to happen), then range approval, then it would have to be supervised somehow. C&DTSA is living on borrowed time, has been for a long time. APRA would like to shut down the public range-period. There are too many shooters in the area for the existing clubs to absorb, and they likely cannot expand to absorb them. There are too many shooters who are not willing to pay the price to operate a range like that. And a lot that could not afford it.
Clubs like Trochu, Drum, Olds, Rocky and some others have to cover their butts to keep from being abused, from within, alone from outside like Leth has just gone thru.
Hazards and realities of population growth. Need something like a summer Olympics to get it done, maybe. Then they'd likely shut it down after anyway.
For the most part, we are our own worst enemy towards getting a new range established.
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