Thread: Gun club cleared to build firing range close to meditation retreat

Originally Posted by GravelBen

Apparently the site of the proposed range is currently a motocross track? Funny as if that's true, shooting range will seem nice and quiet then!

Looks like it from the Google Earth photographs.

I have one around 3kms from me as the crow flys and I am wondering if I should just move there😆

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Originally Posted by marky123

I'm trying to be Kiwi ok?
I just cant leave the house without socks on,once I get over that hurdle....
MARK

@marky123

Di tells me your not a bad Pommy Bastard as far as pommy bastards so go.

And if Di says your an ok bastard then your ok with us mate


Cheers
Pete

Originally Posted by tommygun

I bet when he did clay bird shooting he had a manservant to load the gun and hand it to him. Sorry if I sound bitter but I know quite a few English people here who are stuck up beyond belief and wont stop telling people how things ought to be done. I reckon we deport the lot of the pretentious snobs to make room for refugees who will actually be thankful to be here.

"English people" is such a huge range of individuals from lots of different backgrounds that the stuck up ones are hardly a representative example.
There are plenty of stuck up Kiwis who grow up thinking they are Gods gift too. Not singling out Aucklanders (as that is just as diverse as "English people"), but the recent southward trend, especially on to life style blocks, has had an increase of complaining about noisy smelly dairy cows and their complaining horrible farmers killing baby calves.

You get good and bad in all immigrant communites.Most of the time expats are in one of three types.

Those that go "completley Native" addopt the local language,customs and leave their past behind.

Those that go"half native" speak the language but have only freinds from the same country they are from

Finally those who bang on constantly about how everything is better back home,that the locals are useless in comparason to home,generally leave you wondering why in fucks name they bothered leaving at all.

Originally Posted by norsk

You get good and bad in all immigrant communites.Most of the time expats are in one of three types.

Those that go "completley Native" addopt the local language,customs and leave their past behind.

Those that go"half native" speak the language but have only freinds from the same country they are from

Finally those who bang on constantly about how everything is better back home,that the locals are useless in comparason to home,generally leave you wondering why in fucks name they bothered leaving at all.

i'm proud to have gone full native!!

Originally Posted by norsk

You get good and bad in all immigrant communites.Most of the time expats are in one of three types.

Those that go "completley Native" addopt the local language,customs and leave their past behind.

Those that go"half native" speak the language but have only freinds from the same country they are from

Finally those who bang on constantly about how everything is better back home,that the locals are useless in comparason to home,generally leave you wondering why in fucks name they bothered leaving at all.

Ok, I apologise to any pommy bastards who don't deserve the abuse I was giving, the third type are the ones I think we ought to deport, the rest can stay =)
For example, the pom who pulled up in the driveway of my parents place (they have a little cottage they rent out), whom dad greeted, the man explained his daughter was coming to study in Dunedin and was looking for somewhere to rent out of town, but he didn't even get out of the car, stating the he was looking for somewhere "nicer". The pommy parents of a guy I went to high school with who stood up at the leavers dinner and gave one of the longer speeches of the night, most of which was about their son and his own achievements, the rest about how the school could make improvements. The countless stuck-up English fly-fishermen that come in to the shop, you can imagine: e.g. looking at $500-plus fly reel "Oh, do you have one of these?" "No, I'm much of a fly fisherman" I replied, "No, no" he said "Do you have one of these for sale?" me: "No sir, we only really keep on of each reel in stock, that one itself is for sale" "Oh well if it's a display model I shall expect a discount"

Oh, I say tommygun old chap, one can't help ones breeding I suppose. Pip pip, stiff upper lip what? But you do seem the sort of crass fellow that would have used the display model. Ha ha ha ha ....... Tell them to fuck off mate.

From the Auckland Shooting Club Facebook this morning.

1. We are not right next door to the meditation centre - in that we do not share a common boundry and they are located more than 1.5km away through dense bush, hilly terrain and forestry. 2. The site we are using was a motorcross club, so it is reasonable to assume that neighbours had a tolerance to some levels of noise. 3. Acoustic tests were provided by council approved sound engineers and have been based off other recent noise tests of a New Zealand gun club using range construction to channel and manage the noise - we are not planning to shoot in an open paddock. 4. The meditation centre is being used to sensationalise a news story when it is actually the adjacent neighbour who started the complaints - we have no ill feelings towards the meditation centre and there is in no way any malicious intent towards the people who practice there.

Kscott I can see that as tomorrow's head line....read all about it

Originally Posted by Sideshow

Kscott I can see that as tomorrow's head line....read all about it

There's no way the media, stuff in particular will publish that.

Originally Posted by Kscott

From the Auckland Shooting Club Facebook this morning.

1. We are not right next door to the meditation centre - in that we do not share a common boundry and they are located more than 1.5km away through dense bush, hilly terrain and forestry. 2. The site we are using was a motorcross club, so it is reasonable to assume that neighbours had a tolerance to some levels of noise. 3. Acoustic tests were provided by council approved sound engineers and have been based off other recent noise tests of a New Zealand gun club using range construction to channel and manage the noise - we are not planning to shoot in an open paddock. 4. The meditation centre is being used to sensationalise a news story when it is actually the adjacent neighbour who started the complaints - we have no ill feelings towards the meditation centre and there is in no way any malicious intent towards the people who practice there.

I'd imagine a pistol range would be a lot quieter than a motorcross track. The noise from 4 stroke MX bikes seems to carry travel a bloody long way.

I know it's a bit different but the Otago Pistol Club is located at the beach at Waldronville and uses a sand dune as a backstop, you can be walking along the beach quite happily, on the other side of the dunes while they are shooting and barely hear the shots. I suppose being next to the sea helps.
The ironic thing about this Auckland range is that if they tried to used suppressed handguns to be courteous, the bastard would probably get even more upset. =) I'd like to see them do 3-gun there to really rile him up. I can just see him shaking his newspaper and scoffing at the nerve of people using firearms that aren't a fine side-by-side 'fowling piece' that costs as much to manufacture as a small house.

Originally Posted by tommygun

I know it's a bit different but the Otago Pistol Club is located at the beach at Waldronville and uses a sand dune as a backstop, you can be walking along the beach quite happily, on the other side of the dunes while they are shooting and barely hear the shots. I suppose being next to the sea helps.
The ironic thing about this Auckland range is that if they tried to used suppressed handguns to be courteous, the bastard would probably get even more upset. =) I'd like to see them do 3-gun there to really rile him up. I can just see him shaking his newspaper and scoffing at the nerve of people using firearms that aren't a fine side-by-side 'fowling piece' that costs as much to manufacture as a small house.

I think you'd find that the pom in question is merely a middle class middle management beaurecrat type pom. If everything was so great back "home" why did the prick have to go halfway round the world before he found some one dumb enough to hire him.

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Originally Posted by Steve123

I think you'd find that the pom in question is merely a middle class middle management beaurecrat type pom. If everything was so great back "home" why did the prick have to go halfway round the world before he found some one dumb enough to hire him.

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Probably because he thought he was so great at it but all his co workers knew the truth that he was mistaken in his opinion of his abilities................