[fred cook]

We lost access to our local shooting club range yesterday. The property owners decided to not renew the club's lease for this year. We (the club) tried to buy the land last year but the owners would not sell it to us. Now, the closest shooting club is approximately 35 miles away and costs about 4 times as much to join! I don't know what the property owners will do with the 7 acres that had been used as a firing range for the last 20 years or so. I guess they could start up a lead mining operation! I guess that I will have to build a pellet trap out in my shop and take up practicing with my Beeman Tempest pistol.