Thread: Rifle range in Hastings in trouble ?

Originally Posted by 6x47

Resurrecting Roys Hill as a high power rifle range would taken a large miracle and a heap of money. The big issue when it shut was the Army decided that after more than 100yrs of incident-free civilian shooting, they would call in the technicality that they had to have control of the entire danger zone which is a private farm. Since then, there has been major encroachment of lifestyle blocks and vineyards. There's no coming back from that

Greetings,
I thought land tenure would be the big hurdle and was the reason for closure. There was an earlier range on that site. I found the mounds one day between the main range and the road, There was another one North of Taradale shooting into the back of Sugar Loaf long disused even 60 years ago. We don't know what we've got till its gone to quote the old song.