Rod_outbak wrote:~1890 acres is only roughly 3 square miles, or roughly 7.7 square kilometres.
Thats a square of about 2.75kms each side.
Assuming flat land, a .303 Brit is well capable of going past the property boundaries in any direction; from any point on the property.
If you have a public road on two sides, and state reserve on another, you have a lot of opportunity to cause yourself some grief.
If you are lucky, the powers that be mightn't crunch the numbers.
But if it was me, I'd think that .303 is a bit of overkill for that size of land parcel, in that configuration.
It's a different story again, if the land isnt flat.
My 2 cents...
Daddybang wrote:I often use a mates 303 in safety on my little 80 ac block but it is heavily wooded and I know exactly where I can and can't shoot
Download wrote:Honestly sounds easier just to pay club membership every year than dick around with WAPOL's bulls**t.
bladeracer wrote:Daddybang wrote:I often use a mates 303 in safety on my little 80 ac block but it is heavily wooded and I know exactly where I can and can't shoot
Which is all it should ever come down to. Police just assume we're all morons with little regard for where our bullets are going. There's no reason at all you can't shoot a .300WinMag on a half-acre block as long as you can do so safely.
I went with a neighbour to a rifle club last night to see what it was about. In the middle of town, an un-roofed fenced-in lawn area, shooting .22LR with houses on all sides. The left side neighbour is 40m away, right side neighbour is 100m away, the rear neighbour is 80m away, across a main road, and down-range, the town is 350m away, across the railway line.
I've been past this place hundreds of times and have long wondered what sort of walls and roof structure were required to be able to shoot in the town. Imagine my surprise to discover no roof at all
It's a small brick building for the shooters, a brick wall twenty-meters down-range with rubber and steel bullet stops for the targets, and a simple timber fence along both sides, sheeted on the outside with corrugated steel to reduce the noise to the neighbours. Externally it looks like a completely enclosed building, but when they're shooting, the noise makes it pretty obvious it's open to the sky.
Bazooker wrote:And that's how it should be.
When I got to high school, the old cadet rifle range was still there; it was an area about 50m x 50m walled off with an 8 foot high double brick wall. The target frame was made of 80mm bore casing with a sheet of 20mm steel plate about 2m x 2m set at 45 degrees as a backstop.
Behind the back wall were 2 blocks of flats that faced on to High street Malvern and to the right were two houses that faced onto the side street.
They had only stopped cadets a couple of years before I got there; target practice every Wednesday afternoon apparently.
B.
magnum012 wrote:Ok guys, just an update, I had a chat to a mate with closer to 5000ac who was more than happy to allow me to shoot on his property so I’m going with that option instead.
I spoke to the police and they definitely want a property close to 2000ac minimum in one block un-separated by a road. They said there is a little leeway if the terrain is hilly and provides good backstops.
I don’t make the rules, just gotta follow them to get the result you need.
magnum012 wrote:I’m looking to get a .303 and have read that 2000 acres is the size needed for a high powered in WA. I can get access to a farm that is 1890 acres, backing onto a large reserve only accessible from the farm, and the farm is bounded on two sides by roads with the farm being a squarish shape.
Does anyone know if this will suffice?
Runnymede wrote:Truly bizarre regulations. Why are the authorities in WA so terrified of the citizens having firearms? They obviously can’t outright ban them so obviously make it as difficult and costly as possible for people. What I can’t grasp is it is the largest state by land mass with bugger all people in it and you can’t hunt on state land..... why, what are they affraid of? I really feel for you all over there. I think I read on this forum somewhere that you can just “buy” permission from landowners from your local gun shop (I may be wrong) but if true it would seem the whole thing is a farce anyway. The authorities know, the lgs knows and the applicant knows it’s all a lie so why bother in the first place????
No1_49er wrote:Just as well that WAPOL doesn't have anything to do with approval of the shooting complex at Monarto, SA.
The 900mtr range is alongside Princes Hwy. They'd have heart palpitations.
Nothing like living in a country with "consistent gun laws" across the States, huh.
TassieTiger wrote:Corruption by any other name...
I’d like to see sporting shooter rag do a review of the different state laws - highlighting the above type insanity.
Daddybang wrote:Careful what ya wish for fellas if they stir up to much sh@t and make the poliscum panic then we might all end up being consistent with WA!!!!!!!
Sawyers wrote:magnum012 wrote:I’m looking to get a .303 and have read that 2000 acres is the size needed for a high powered in WA. I can get access to a farm that is 1890 acres, backing onto a large reserve only accessible from the farm, and the farm is bounded on two sides by roads with the farm being a squarish shape.
Does anyone know if this will suffice?
Usual acreage required is 2000 but the marginal acreage is 1000 as per WAPOLS spread sheet
Sawyers wrote:Usual acreage required is 2000 but the marginal acreage is 1000 as per WAPOLS spread sheet