![]() The sole exception is H M Government - ie military ranges and even they are becoming increasingly unwilling to incur the ire of new neighbours in spreading suburbs and will often enter agreements that restrict hours or days in the week that shooting takes place. (A scam - the buyer gets the property at a knock-down price because of the noisy neighbour, has it shut down and gets a large increase in property value as a result!) Amazingly, unlike many long-established facilities or activities such as roads or railways, many facilities like shooting ranges neither have any 'grandfather rights' in law, nor can they object to planning consent being granted for houses being built next door. This has happened to several clay shooting grounds, or an 'agreement' been forced on the operator for no shooting before such and such a time, or on Sunday mornings, or shooting limited to so many days a year.Īn existing adjacent residence changing occupier or owner can - and has - see the same thing happen. A range or clay ground can have been in existence for 100 years or more, but if somebody obtains permission to build a house just behind the firing point and outside the range fence, one person alone occupying it can complain about excessive noise on day one one of residency and have the range closed. We have strict environmental regulations in which subjecting anybody outside of the range boundaries to unreasonable noise levels will see you declared a nuisance and/or a statutory order placed on you to either attenuate that noise to 'acceptable' levels ('acceptable' as defined by a local bureaucrat with a decibel meter many of whom are not shooting's friends), or more commonly to shut down completely. ![]() One of the biggest threats to target shooting in the UK is noise, or rather complaints by non-shooters about noise. There is no public land here for plinking or hunting - it's designated and approved private land / or approved and certified rifle ranges for most rifle shooters. The UK is has a relatively small land area with a high population density. (Mind you, I've seen people hurriedly change relay when see 'Fred' uncase an M44 before now.) It's one thing having somebody on the firing line with an M38 or 44 Nagant carbine shooting surplus 7.62X54R ball blasting your ears (you get the flash in your peripheral vision as well just to add to the fun), but that's non-optional with this rifle, attached / screw-on optional devices that create similar effects are a different matter. Nothing more frustrating and irritating than being perfectly on aim, breathing right, trigger 9/10 to the break, attention and concentration closed right down 'in the bubble' and you're assaulted by both blast and noise from another shooter's brake - he or she doesn't get this his or her neighbours do. In prone deliberate shooting with people lined up close to each other, they're an anti-social pest and the users are usually made aware of that by their fellow shooters. For field use on one's own, no problem, likewise in rapid-fire disciplines where most people use a brake and they're allowed. ![]() I have seen people shoot rifles with similar weights with much heavier recoiling cartridges and 'clean' targets off relatively simple bipods without any such devices many, many times. Rapid fire disciplines aside, there is simply no need nor benefit in prone shooting at marked or e-targets in this combination. I agree with everything you say Muir, but the OP is asking about this rifle if restricted to target shooting use.
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