Anyone been there before?

When I was working we would take clients there every once in a while for an afternoon out. Since then I've scheduled some outings there with friends.

Neighbors want to shut it down because the gunfire scares their animals
http://www.wral.com/harnett-leaders-could-vote-on-status-of-shooting-range-thursday/11961675/

1/10/2013 10:23:04 AM

This sounds like the title of the next Uncharted game.

1/10/2013 10:24:54 AM

The last time I went there I saw muzzle flashes in my direction on their sporting clays course, fuck that

1/10/2013 10:32:43 AM

who was there first, the range or the houses?

1/10/2013 10:34:41 AM

I've been there.. loved it

1/10/2013 11:29:57 AM

Last time I went was for Ninja Challenge. Wasn't that bad though

1/10/2013 11:37:30 AM

i thought someone had actually been hit by stray shot

i, too, have been there and had a good time...only once, though, and it was because i had a groupon

1/10/2013 12:07:11 PM

I've been there once or twice. It's OK. Don't remember anything noteworthy about it, either pro or con.

I have a cousin who works there on the weekends.

1/10/2013 12:08:06 PM

I go there a lot to keep my shot on with the clays. From wha I understand was that the course has been there forever. It used to be a farm but they decided they could make more money turning it into a shooting range. Also I heard a neighbor complained that a bullet went through their house but they could never prove it came from drakes. For the price, this is great fun on a Saturday morning when hunting season is over.

1/10/2013 12:21:39 PM

went to the rifle range. twas fun.
pistol pit is neat. you shoot at knock down targets instead of a piece of paper

1/10/2013 5:58:59 PM

Wow I just went back to the article to see if there were any updates and the Golo did not fail to provide a few entertaining comments.

The controversy around it is pretty funny. The state, and several rural county governments have really been trying to build agrotourism agritourism for a long time, especially since a lot of old Tobacco farms are trying to convert over to something more profitable. I remember when I was working for NC Wildlife running and article about this same kind of set-up in the mountains.

These set-ups are usually win-win for everyone involved. Farmers get to retain family farms and make a profit, tree huggers are stoked that large properties are allowed to return to wild vegetation, instead of employing low-wage migrant laborers the farms are employing skilled workers at much higher pay, and I get a place that I can scratch the itch to blow apart orange targets without having to worry about purchasing, maintaining and storing a firearm.

But a few neighbors have dogs too skiddish to pee in the yard and we must shut this place down. My dog won't go outside on garbage day since the trucks roll through the neighborhood, maybe I can petition the city.

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1/10/2013 6:32:09 PM

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"agrotourism"

1/10/2013 6:39:16 PM