Hidden Shooting Clubs
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- Pippin89
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Hidden Shooting Clubs
I have just discovered, to my utter amazement, that there is a rifle club local to me that I never knew about. Not just in the same county or even a few towns away.... IN THE VILLIAGE I LIVE IN! It looks like a reasonable club too, 100m range, HOA, fullbore, muzzle loaders, pistols etc.
I have lived here for nearly 6 years and had no idea of its existence. I appreciate clubs generally like to keep a low profile but how is it so bad that I can be completely unaware of a club so near by.
Needless to say I have immediately enquired about membership.
I have lived here for nearly 6 years and had no idea of its existence. I appreciate clubs generally like to keep a low profile but how is it so bad that I can be completely unaware of a club so near by.
Needless to say I have immediately enquired about membership.
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Re: Hidden Shooting Clubs
Perhaps a reflection on how well, or other wise, you have integrated with the local community?
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- Pippin89
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Or a reflection on how well the club has integrated with the local community... Given my surprise of not having knowledge of the clubs existence, and the fact that no one I have spoken to had knowledge of it either (including some that have lived here their entire lives), this would seem more likely.dromia wrote:Perhaps a reflection on how well, or other wise, you have integrated with the local community?
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Re: Hidden Shooting Clubs
Wouldn’t the sound of gunfire be noticeable in a small village?......
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Re: Hidden Shooting Clubs
So the individual members aren't locals then?Pippin89 wrote:Or a reflection on how well the club has integrated with the local community... Given my surprise of not having knowledge of the clubs existence, and the fact that no one I have spoken to had knowledge of it either (including some that have lived here their entire lives), this would seem more likely.dromia wrote:Perhaps a reflection on how well, or other wise, you have integrated with the local community?
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Re: Hidden Shooting Clubs
Not necessarily.snayperskaya wrote:Wouldn’t the sound of gunfire be noticeable in a small village?......
Could be an enforced use of moderators, or be in a location that reflect the noise away from the houses. Or it could even possibly be heard, but be a normal sound in the area that people ignore automatically.
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Re: Hidden Shooting Clubs
What is the name of the club?
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Re: Hidden Shooting Clubs
shotgun sam wrote:What is the name of the club?
Maybe it is the "Secret, Silent, Secluded, Solitary, Stealthy, Surreptitious, Surrey Shooting Society"!
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Re: Hidden Shooting Clubs
It'll be like these lost tribes in the Amazon rainforest. - Lived quite happily, doing their own thing, for ten thousand, discovered and "helped" by civilisation and all gone down the pan in the next twenty years.
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Now there's a cheerful thought!1066 wrote:It'll be like these lost tribes in the Amazon rainforest. - Lived quite happily, doing their own thing, for ten thousand, discovered and "helped" by civilisation and all gone down the pan in the next twenty years.
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