2019-10-29 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – October 29, 2019 RH: You cannot forecast when you’re gonna go up there. You’re at the mercy of what is going on at the facility at that time, which is, if you’re a club and you schedule activities that does not work. Shotgun facilities are scheduled like a year in advance – if you’re gonna bring people in to use your facility and put on a whatever it – a high power rifle or a shotgun skeet trap, sporting plate. These are all scheduled years in advance so it doesn’t work if you don’t have control over the schedule. Now there was a plus – if you use the existing facilities you have to go in through the main gate and comply with all the stuff that some of the things you mentioned. We did look at – the Sgt. Major took us down to a location about the 50 mile mark on Saddle Road that he claimed was not useful to the Army and could maybe be a site to build a facility but there’s nothing there now, OK? So when you start talking about building something now – Jim just gave you a pitch on what we did over a 15 year period. There’s a million dollars sunk into this Puuanahulu concept – a million – and we haven’t even touched a scrap of dirt yet, OK? So think about it. It’s not an easy thing to do. DP: That is true. Some of the things he mentioned is true. As I understand it, though, there are four or five months of down time – where nobody’s using the range so, um, it’s, what I’d like to do is if we can approach them and try to create a very similar type gun club – it’s called – call it rod & gun club just like we had at Schofield and follow the same rules – I mean, not trying to reinvent the wheel here – we just want to be able to have a place that we can go and shoot, ah, it would most likely be on weekends and, ah, like you said, it would have to go through the gate, which to me is not that big of a deal – as long as all your paperwork is done and cleared it shouldn’t be a problem – it’s only if you don’t want to do a background check or your cars aren’t registered and so on and so forth – that may be a problem. If your weapons are registered – again it shouldn’t be a problem so I’m not seeing that much of a big issue. I just think it’s an alternative, um, not, I think this range that they want to do is treat – I wish we could do something like that but in the meantime there is that possibility that was can, you know, sit down, talk to them and possibly use this range cause their ranges if they’re not being used for four or five months they’re some of the best ranges in the Islands, I mean, I don’t know if you guys have been up there or not but the ranges are really, really good and you can shoot 1,000 yards if you had to. You can go out and get yourself a really good high powered rifle if you want to site in – you can do that – not any other place on the Island can you do that. That’s my thoughts. JO: Yeah. I think... TN: I just need the person’s name and his contact number. DP: My name is Daniel Peddie and it’s Peddie – my wife does work for the County so I got nothing to hide – she works at the legal department but I can give you my email if you want – will be Daniel.hawaii@yahoo.com. 27