Thread: Urgent Message For All Lake Lyndon Target Shooters

Another fire up at Lyndon caused by someone using tracers

Originally Posted by cambo

Another fire up at Lyndon caused by someone using tracers

I just drove thru there the day before yesterday. Was staying at Colleridge.

I looked for evidence of all this target shooting all be it from the road and didn't notice anything obvious apart form some well used vehicle tracks.
It did look bloody dry.

How many kinds of stupid do you have to be to use tracer in there?

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Originally Posted by cambo

Another fire up at Lyndon caused by someone using tracers

FFS

And how do we know there was a fire caused by tracers? Are we just assuming that the piece in the paper where the "fire officer" said it "may" have been caused by tracers, is actual fact. Just as easily may NOT have been caused by tracers. Truth is at this point they dont know what caused it.

And fences being put up now to stop 4wd , can only assume hoping for an added effect of stoping the target shooting.disapointing but not surprised

Originally Posted by Mackattack

And fences being put up now to stop 4wd , can only assume hoping for an added effect of stoping the target shooting.disapointing but not surprised

The fencing is there because the road washed away with the recent flooding. The road is currently closed for repairs.

Just to revive this, the time has come and Doc are fencing the area at lake lyndon off, trailer loads of rubbish, 4wding were some main reasons but also target shooters leaving rubbish and targets everywhere. Typical case of a few people ruining it for everyone else. Doc are in talks with the NZDA about potential new areas. Could there be a possible solution of fencing off designated areas at lake Lyndon for shooting with warning signs? I doubt it as it gives liability to Doc if anything goes wrong, the same reason private landholders won't allow it.
If enough people got behind a petition to set up a 'public' range area off lake Lyndon road does anyone think anything would come from it? could be worth a try.

A couple of years ago when i used the Lyndon site before closure were a few tv's & other home made targets littering the target area. Plus hundreds if not more spent cartridge's of the centre fire type. It appears more than just a few spoiling the area for others? So that leaves the Canterbury NZDA and hand loaders range which have rules and range officers to keep things in check - we don't have rubbish left on our ranges or start careless fires. Must have been a coincidence that 'tracer' fire at Lyndon next to the target area? Maybe trampers were having a cook up, yeah nah..

There's a walking track that runs along the skyline of the face most people use and have seen trampers come down that face while people were wanting to shoot, this was on the one trip I have been there with the intention of shooting and didn't shoot because didn't feel comfortable having seen that. A place with signage and fences would be great and would give some confidence that people wouldn't walk into firing zone

I drove the lyndon to coleridge road last sat. There were 3x trucks further along "shooting", one with a white target clearly positioned on the ground.
Last time Kingsley was at the NZDa meeting, he said he'd take truck numbers and report to the cops, as sighting a rifle in on public land does not equate to the conditions on the hunting permit.

Originally Posted by scottrods

I drove the lyndon to coleridge road last sat. There were 3x trucks further along "shooting", one with a white target clearly positioned on the ground.
Last time Kingsley was at the NZDa meeting, he said he'd take truck numbers and report to the cops, as sighting a rifle in on public land does not equate to the conditions on the hunting permit.

From conversations with the guy not that long ago, this seems vastly contradictory. I know for a fact the guy sights his own rifle in on "public land"

Originally Posted by scottrods

I drove the lyndon to coleridge road last sat. There were 3x trucks further along "shooting", one with a white target clearly positioned on the ground.
Last time Kingsley was at the NZDa meeting, he said he'd take truck numbers and report to the cops, as sighting a rifle in on public land does not equate to the conditions on the hunting permit.

Peak fudd.

There is a church run Lodge at Lake Lyndon and a popular walking track leaves the lodge skirts along the ridge line above these 'ranges' and drops down a gully people like to shoot up.There is quite a curve in this gully and trampers can not be seen approaching until they are behind the targets.This whole area is a disaster waiting to happen,and there is a possibility of a disaster which will not end well.

Setting up and running a range requires planning and paperwork. Requirements are set out in an old document, the NZ Police Firearms Range Manual. Also, Councils have veto rights in some way due to powers around resource consents and it's quite costly to even apply. Indeed, eternal vigilance is the price of retaining even formal established ranges like the NZDA ones. So, it's unlikely that DoC would take on a project like providing a free public range. Half a dozen discreet shots to check your zero in a safe place while you're out hunting - OK. Just don't annoy, endanger or frighten.

Hey team, sorry to revive an older thread, but has there been any update on this? ie. has there been a change in position allowing this or an alternate area designated?