Well for one thing "less than a mile" (in this case about 0.90 mile) can be the difference between vacant land and someone's breakfast table.bigger hammer said:...A typical load from a .50 (647 gr. bullet at 2,910 fps) will travel about 6,600 yards. A typical load from a .308 (168 gr. bullet at 2650 fps) will travel about 5,000 yards. The difference is less than a mile. This is a specious argument at best....
I didn't call you names. I said that you were ignorant about our range. That is a fact. You don't know anything about our range or what we went through to design and build it.bigger hammer said:I can always tell when I've won an argument. Others start name calling instead of sticking to the facts. ...
Among other things, you seem to have conveniently forgotten that I wrote that we designed our range with the help of an NRA recommended consultant, that we did an aerial survey of our property and the surrounding area, that some of our members are engineers and understand design and construction, and that one of our members has special expertise in dirt moving and grading and understands the construction of berms.
So have you ever visited our range? Studied our terrain? Examined the slippage characteristics of our berms and the hillside against which they are built? Are you professionally qualified to render an opinion regarding these things? If not, then indeed it is another fact that we know more about our range then you do. And then it is also a fact that we are more qualified to decide how to run our range than you are.
That's too bad, because I think a lot of people disagree. And if range management thinks that "noise, muzzle blast and bullets shooting too far" are good reasons not to allow .50 BMG, I guess you're out of luck.bigger hammer said:...I have no problem with such a limitation if there's a reasonable motive not to allow them. But I don't think that "noise, muzzle blast and bullets shooting too far" are reasonable....