So here is the deal. There were some recent complaints against the neighbors shooting range a few miles down the road. Apparently people hiking heard bullets zipping through the woods by them. This seems to happen every couple of years with their range, and who knows if it is really true or if it is someone who simply doesn't like guns.
Anyways, the conservation officer stopped out at our house and was asking for all of our names and info. Apparently collecting info on the case, and examining our shooting range.
Our range faces a different direction by 90 degrees, so there its no concern that we have anything to do with it, from my point of view anyways. The direction we shoot is towards nothing but miles of woods, no roads or houses. Our range is down in a valley, and at the end of the valley we have a hillside.
Now, ever since this officer stopped out, my dad became paranoid, and now he is saying that a friend of mine cannot bring his 50bmg out, because conservation might be "keeping an eye on us", and if they knew a 50bmg was being shot they would try to find something wrong with our backstop configuration.
I think that's a bunch of bull, and I think we should keep shooting whatever and whenever we want.
What do you guys think? I mean, could the conservation ever pull something and say that the hill is not at the proper angle or something odd like that, and basically attempt to do something evil to us because of a backstop?
I feel our range is safe, but my father feels that in the eyes of the law nothing is safe, and that we should now hide all large guns.
Anyways, the conservation officer stopped out at our house and was asking for all of our names and info. Apparently collecting info on the case, and examining our shooting range.
Our range faces a different direction by 90 degrees, so there its no concern that we have anything to do with it, from my point of view anyways. The direction we shoot is towards nothing but miles of woods, no roads or houses. Our range is down in a valley, and at the end of the valley we have a hillside.
Now, ever since this officer stopped out, my dad became paranoid, and now he is saying that a friend of mine cannot bring his 50bmg out, because conservation might be "keeping an eye on us", and if they knew a 50bmg was being shot they would try to find something wrong with our backstop configuration.
I think that's a bunch of bull, and I think we should keep shooting whatever and whenever we want.
What do you guys think? I mean, could the conservation ever pull something and say that the hill is not at the proper angle or something odd like that, and basically attempt to do something evil to us because of a backstop?
I feel our range is safe, but my father feels that in the eyes of the law nothing is safe, and that we should now hide all large guns.