One of our neighbors is asking permission to install a skeet range near out house.
So I’ve got some questions.
1 How many here are skeet shooters?
2 What do you shoot?
3 How many rounds do you shoot on any given day?
It’s been far too long, but I used to shoot about twice a month.
Remingtion 1100 12ga. Modified.
Ithaca featherlight 20ga pump. Full choke.
I didn’t really read the OP close enough.
If you mean the targets – Clay Pigeons (It’s surprisingly hard to Google. Seems there is a movie named ‘Clay Pigeons’.)
Is this a private skeet range? Heck we used to just set up in the back yard and blast away. Perhaps 25-50 rounds when I used to shoot. You could have people shooting all day long though.
Is this a hoop that the County is making your neighbor jump through? A zoning or permit thing? Or is he just being nice?
I own 40 acres that I target shoot on. I have one neighbor about a half mile away. I talked to them once and explained that I occasionally target shoot on the property. They where fine with it, but appreciated the heads up. Thing is, it’s perfectly legal for me to shoot on that property. It’s zoned agricultural (your zoning and regs may be different). But I like to be respectful of my neighbor.
Do you have any pets? It’s something to consider. The noise can make them very nervous.
We used to have a skeet range out our house when I was growing up (we had lots of land and my father was a gun dealer). We didn’t use it all the time so averages don’t mean much. I went through a period when I shot most days and sometimes it went months without being used. When it was being used, we probably shot 50 targets per person. Sometimes we would have tournaments where people would fire several hundred shots. I suspect that use would be high in the beginning and then drop off pretty sharply. I gets tiring firing a shotgun round after round and it isn’t that cheap either.
Do you want them to line up so it will be easier to shoot them?
Naw but the thought of mentioning Cheney did cross my mind.
Basicly I’m just wondering how noisy its gonna be.
This is Iowa.
Its most all farmland and all of his land is zoned as such.
Note his is all flatland and probably some of the finest farmground in Iowa.
He is a retired farmer,retired educator,retired small buisness owner.He raises Elk.
He’s in the process of pulling a fast one as far as notification of the zoneing hearing.
The official notification of the p&z meeting will be in tomorrows,mondays newspaper.
Since all interested parties are rural and recieve the newspaper via USPS and tomorrow is a postal holiday most won’t know about the meeting until tuesday . The meeting is at 7:30 tuesday evening.
The guy ain’t no dummy.
Yes we have dogs.
We also have cattle.
Our house is less than a mile from where all the shooting will be.
There is a dairy about 2 miles from all the shooting but they will not say anything because they spread manure on the gentlemans property.
There is another fella that raises race horses who lives just across the road from the guy.
They will not say anything because they rent land from him.
There is a hog confinement probably 400 hogs about 2 miles from the shooting.
Dunno about them.
There is a couple that boards horses about 1/2 mile from the shooting.
Dunno about them either.
It just isn’t a good place for a shooting range.
If they use real skeet loads, about 100 yards is plenty of room. No back stop mountain or heavy tree line needed. (light loads with fine pellets)
Not nice if he really needs approval to sneak it in.
Since he needs zoning, it sounds like a commercial operation. Different ball of wax.
Lot less irritating than a nearby rail line IMO.
YMMV
I’ve shot trap, and have been to a couple of different locations where non-shoothing activities were within earshot of skeet/trap ranges. It’s quite a bit of shooting, sounds like loud pops at that distance and will vary in volume with the direction the wind blows.
In trap, each guy shoots 25 targets per round and there might be 5 guys in each round. The shooting is fairly relentless as you try to keep the pace up to get in as much shooting as possible. So that’s 125 possible pops a round, but that’s trap. I’ve never shot skeet.
I’m a shooter, and I fing it only mildly annoying when I’m within earshot of a shooting range. If you’re not sypathetic to the cause, I could see how it might be quite grating.
If you’re trying to block him you could raise the issue of lead contamination from the shot, especially if it’s to be anywhere near a wetland. If that doesn’t block him entirely, it could force him to use steel shot which is about double the cost, thereby likely halving the number he’d be planning to shoot.
I have 3 traps on the edge of my land, sort of a mini-sporting clays range. Every couple weekends or so when it’'s nice a few friends and I will blast through a box of shells.
I live within earshot of 2 different skeet/trap clubs. They both shoot on mondays during the summer and it is pretty much non-stop gunfire for about 3 hours. You get used to it quickly. That’s what happens when you live out in the country, people shoot guns and spread manure and that’s life.