Reply #29: Is this another one that "found" a complete cartridge? [View All]

I seem to remember a year or so ago, a subdivision was demanding that they close a nearby gun club/target range that had been there for over 75 years for the same reasons.

The local media picked up the story and one homeowner, showed the media a complete 30.06 cartridge, unfired that he "found" in his driveway, "proving" that his life and the children were "in danger".

IIRC they were eventually exposed as frauds (not to mention the local media outlets exposed as morons) after a few weeks and the club was allowed to stay in operation.

I'm not saying that's the case here too - at least not yet. But the physics of a nearby home, finding a spent bullet, let alone hearing one pass overhead with any kind of berm in place that the round would have to pass over, would seem to make it a fairly high "lob shot" to hit anything within a golf chip shot or even a fairway iron away.

It reminds me of the almost annual story every fall in the local papers where my parents live (fairly remote rural area that's being developed) where a recently transplanted Chicagoan sees a "man with a gun right across the street" and calls the cops. The cops usually now know enough to find out on the phone that it's a farmer hunting pheasants and/or rabbits with a 12 gauge in his own cut over corn field over a quarter mile away. The nice part is they publish the name of the person that got freaked out since they usually call the local papers too about the "danger" this poses for the children. That way we all know who to make fun of if we ever meet them face to face.