by Tiger650 » 30 Jul 2017, 10:10 pm
Sarco directly above sounds like an apologist for the Status Quo, which is s**t BTW.
I avoid Little River for several reasons, not the least of which are money harvesting from Members and tolerance of BS behavior such as people turning up and "reserving" a bench by placing a chair on a bench prior to signing in, no need to wait in line to sign in like the blokes who turned up earlier !
Last time I was there I was told by an RO that "You cannot have that bench, that is Johnno's bench [complete with freaking chair] Johnno was nowhere to be seen so I removed a chair from an adjacent bench and set the gear up including target frames out.
All good to go and some s#itbag comes wandering up and demands that we move everything because he had "reserved" the bench by turning up later than us putting a bloody chair on the bench.
My young bloke was shooting an accurate varmint rifle with our experimental [vs std 168gn Sierra] handloads and the bulls**t was unwelcome re his focus on the job.
Given that a rifle range is not the place for aggressive defence I was polite but firm, even when told that the chair on the bench bulls**t was in the range rules, I was dealing with a persistent ****** who really needed to be slapped.
Then the RO who had shooed us away from Johnno's "reserved" bench suggested that it may be best if we gave up the bench to the d**khead to avoid any bother !
I firmly but politely declined to do that, almost anywhere else I would have become very coarse in my language and behaviour but never at a rifle range.
The queue jumping loudmouth pissed off and so did the RO, damage was done and the young bloke shot OK but did not need the distraction, neither did I as his Coach.
Two other ROs approached us at first check fire and expressed their support for my position, good blokes and it has been my pleasure to meet the Chief RO on a couple of occasions, a Gentleman and kindred spirit but he cannot be there during all range hours.
Given the significant costs of use of the Range he could be permanently employed and I would expect the range to be better run if he were there to train/supervise [put some backbone in] the hired ROs.
My ideal would be to have retired Army NCOs doing the job, preferably RAR or RA or RAEng, it would have been beneficial to the queue jumper and most amusing for the young bloke [a serving soldier] and myself.
Money is where it is at, once I neglected to pack a forend rest and had the pleasure of paying $20.00 to hire a well worn $125.00 retail rest, the woman in the office knows which side her bread is buttered on for sure.
The show lacks organization and is a money mill for whoever, certainly not run for the benefit of the shareholders.
Too late to the table Sarco, there are many folks such as myself who will not swallow your ISO9001 be frightened of the UN bulls**t.