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Originally Posted by Doug
Good stuff Retlaw, Living history in our own back yard. I love it. Just a point, wasn’t the ranges up there still active in the mid 60s, possibly for the cadets. I can remember going up there digging in sand banks for rounds? Lots of .22 and 303 and the occasion spent case.
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No, what you are refering to is the Hapton Scout Range. I shot in competitions on that range back in the 1950's. It was closed down in the 1960's, the range has become dangerous because of land slides at the back of the butts, a large quantity of rock had slid into the backstop causing ricochets. We did a test with some tracer & it faied its range safety certification, so the army closed it down.
Walter